The Engineer 1904 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1904 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABERFELDY Ropeway, 229, 229, (252)

Accidents, Explosions, Fires:

Bridge Destroyed by Wind, A Mississippi, 590
Bursting of Reservoir in North Carolina, (471)
Colliery Cage Accidents, Preventing, (529)
Colliery, Fife Coal Company’s, New Pit, (230)
Due to Combustion within Air Compressors, Mr. W. L. Saunders’ Discussion on A. R. Ledoux’s Paper on, 10
Eston Steel Works, Explosion of Furnace, (40)
Explosion, Acetylene Gas, in Chicago, (646)
- Boiler, A Curious Case of Corrosion, 115, 131
- Boiler, in Paris, 38, 63, 93
- Boiler, A Remarkable, 280, 301
- Coal-dust or Fire-damp, (393)
- Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, (621)
- Home-office Report of Accidents to Workpeople in Mines and Quarries, (401), (406)
- Live Rail, Death Caused by Stepping on a, 207
- Live Tramway Wire, Fall of a, (199)
- Railway Accidents— see Railway
- Robinson Deep Cage Disaster, 71, (582)

ADHESION of Timber Piles to Concrete, 167
Admiralty, Lords Commissioners’ Announcements respecting Changes at Examinations of Engineer Cadets, 120
Admiralty, Standing Committee on Machinery Design Appointed by the, (182)
Aerial Appliance without Balloon that Accomplishes a Kilometre without Touching Earth : Prize Offered, (621)
Aerial Ropeway at Aberfeldy, 228, 229, (252)
Aerostation-Scientific, International Congress of, at St. Petersburg, (299)
Agricultural Implements from Chicago, Increased Output, (61)
- in Corunna, Demand for, (182)
- German, for Siberia, (621)
- and Machinery in Yeniseisk, Demand for, (423)
- Machinery in South Russia, Demand for, (445)
- Tractor, Petrol, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, 42
Air Compressor, The, R. H. Collingham, No. 3, 26 (for Nos. 1 and 2 sec 558, 627, Vol. XCVII. of THE ENGINEER) Compressors, Causes of Explosion in, 481 Ejectors, 532, 551
- Experiments of Canovetti at Zossen, (345)
- Liquid, Commercial Possibilities of, 612
- Pumps, 252, 280, 375, 427, 479
Airship, Captain T. S. Baldwin’s, (445), (498)
Airship, The Lebaudy, (498)
Alcohol, America and Industrial, 64
- as Competitor of Electricity in Brazil, (419)
- Duty-free, 525 Industrial, 633 for Industrial Purposes, Duty-free, (252) for Manufacturing and Scientific Purposes, Use of, (310)
- Untaxed, for Manufacturing and Other Purposes, (134)
Alkali Acts, The, 102
Alloys, Aluminium, Electric Conductivity of Certain, 249
- Copper-Aluminium, Effect of London Atmosphere on Conductivity of, (299) Iron and Its, 248
- Magnetic, their Production from Non-Magnetic Metals, (445)
- of Manganese, Copper and Aluminium, The Hensler, 248
Almanacs, Diaries, &c., 582, 632, 654 Alum, Raw, Exported to France from CIvita Vecchia, (134)
Aluminium and Its Alloys, Manufacture and Cost of. Professor T. Turner on, 456
Aluminium, Davy’s Attempts to Prepare, (646)
Amalgam for Stopping Holes, (85) Amalgamation, Important, (491)
American and Industrial Alcohol, 64
Ankylostomiasis, Dr. Charles Porter’s Lectures on, (217)
Antarctic Exploration, 575
Anti-dust League, Paris, (35)

Appointments and Resignations Appointments:

Ball, Mr. S., (507)
Bryan, Mr. W. B., (11)
Carmichael, Mr. G. H., (607)
Coker, Mr. E. G., (452)
Dalby, Mr. W. E., (157)
Garstin, Sir Wm., (471)
Golding, Mr. H. A., (393)
Grindley, Dr. J. H., (451)
Hall, Mr. Geo., Master Cutler, (355)
Hurst, Mr. John, (393)
Kapp, Professor, (654)
Last, Mr. W. L., (230)
Marsh, Mr., (498)
Osler, Mr. Wm., (370)
Outhwaite, Mr. Harry, (21)
Owen, Mr. W. H., (535)
Palmer, Mr. C. S. R. (253)
Salter, Mr. E. E., (253)
Sandhurst, Rt. Hon. Lord, (445)
Shaw, Mr, J. B., (299)
Smith, Mr. Allison, (529)
Wailes, Mr. W. C., (286)
Watts, Mr. Philip, (646)
Windsor-Richards, Mr. F., (286)

Resignations:

Barry, Sir J. W., (498)
Beckwith, Mr. J, C., (73)
Blair, Mr. A. G., (393)
Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John Scott, (370)
Crow, Mr. W. H., (73)
Drury, Mr. H, G. (597)
Ellis, Mr. J. D., (21)
Hartley, Sir Chas,, (498)
Proctor, Mr. B. G., (597)
Unwin, Prof., (157)
Wakelam, Mr, S., (314)
Williams, Mr. C., (73)

APPRENTICE Club Formed at Stretford, (134)

Armour Plates:

Admiralty Orders Placed in Sheffield, (143), (355). (655)

ARMSTRONG, Whitworth and Co., Sir W. G., Acquire an Interest in the Firm of Ansaldo and Co., Genoa, (310)
Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Sir W. G., Gift to Funds of College of Science at Newcastle, (117), (122)
Asbestos Output, Quebec, (253) Asbestos Production, United States, (276) Ashmore, Mr. Wm., 593
Asphalt in the Caucasus, Immense Beds Discovered, (419)
Asphalt Mending, Chicago, Machine for, (35) Asphaltum for Protecting Iron Pipes, Use of, (230)

Association, Automobile Protection:

Monthly Meeting, Financial Report, (349), (452)

Association, British Dairy Farmers’ :

Dairy Show, 1904, 349 ;

Association, British Foundrymen’s :

First Annual Convention to be Held at Manchester, (108). (138) I

Association, British, of Managers of Textile Works:

Gas, Oil, and Steam for Power, Mr. M. Long- ridge, 377

Association, British Weights and Measures:

Formation of, and its Purposes, (218)

Association of Gas Managers, North British :

Address by Mr. Robertson, the President, Containing Reference to the Ideal Gas Retort, (137)

Association, Geologists’:

Conversazione, (406)

Association of Engineers, The Leeds : Anniversary Dinner, Thirty-ninth, (606) Opening of the Winter Session, Mr. G. B.

Goldsack’s Address, (374)
Boilers, Water-tube, Recent Improvements in, Mr. J. C. Jefferson, 456
Steam Stop Valves and Gauges, Mr. A. H. Hopkinson on, (556)

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

Economic Value of Cast Iron, Mr. W. H. Pretty, 605,(646)
Engine Shaft Bearings, Adjustments and Alloys of, Mr. W. Turner, 649
Open Meeting, (378)
Riveted Joints, Mr. C. J. Seaman, 508
Temperature Entropy Diagrams, Mr, G. J. Wells, (432)
Visit to the British Thomson-Houston Works, 121
Visit to the Stuart-street Electrical Power Generating Station, Manchester, (378)
Presentation of “ Constantine Gold Medal to Mr. W. E. Storey, Annual Conversazione, (355), (378)

Association of Engineers, South African :

South African Minins: and the D. Gilmour, 322, 353

Association, Incorporated Electrical:

Annual Meeting, (46)

Association of Mechanical Birmingham:

Engineering Works Policy and petition, Mr, W. Bardill, (483)
Opening Meeting, (350)
Visit to Works of Thos, Firth and Sons, Sheffield, (96)
Wheel Gearing, Mr. W. H. Thornbery, (418), 645

Association, National Founders’:

Announcement made at the Cincinnati Meeting, (579)

Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers of Great Britain and Ireland:

President, Mr, Jas, Holden, (570)

Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes:

Large Representative Meeting, (470)

Association, Tramways and Light Railways:

Meetings and Papers to be Read at, (4C6) Permanent Way for Tramways, Mr. Connett, 575
Programme of the Vienna Congress, (258)
Speed Allowances on Tramways and Light Railways, Mr. A, R. Fearnley on, 452
Tramway Car Wheels and Rails, Cost and Maintenance of, Mr. A. N. Banister, (452)
Ticket Cheeking, Systems of, Mr. F. Courts, (452), (470)
Regenerative Control Systems, Mr. A, Raworth, (462), (470)

Association of Waterworks Engineers, British:

Ninth Winter Meeting, Programme, 551

Association of the Witwatersrand Mechanical Engineers:

Tailings Elevators, Messrs, W, H. Wood and E. J. Laschinger, 430

AUSTRALIAN Hardwoods, Ravages of Ship
Worms on, 418
Automatic Alarm, Danish Invention, (471) Axiom System of Lubrication, The, 162

BACON, Mr. J. Mackenzie, 650
Bailey, Mr. Benjamin, 187
Baldwin Airship, (445), (498)
Ball Bearings, 14, 43, 93
Barrel Truck, 93
Batchelor Pneumatic Despatch System, The, 166
Batey, Mr. W. J. S., (423)
Bearings, Ball, 14, 43, 93
Bearings, Roller, 44, (96)
Bedlington, Mr. Richard, 303
Belgian Engineers, Visit of, (227)
Belk, Mr. Charles, 549
Bell, Sir Lowthian, 626, (634), (655)
Bell, Sir Lowthian, His Gift to the Armstrong College, (21)
Belt Speed Recommended by Mr. Taylor, (85)
Belts, Care and Usage of, 92
Ben Nevis Observatory to be Closed, (323), 579
Bicycle Trade of Japan, (471), 579
Bicycles, Sale of, in Chicago, (61)
Billinton, Mr. Robert John, his Successor, 478, (498)

Bills

Anderton Lift, (546)
Hall-marking of Foreign Plate, Royal Assent to, (121), (217)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Steam Vessels), (35) •
Manchester Ship Canal, Uropposed, (157)
Port of London, 514
Private, and the Board of Trade, 480
Private, Deposited for Next Session, (546) Railway, (74), (646)
Thames Conservancy, (597)
Harbour, Construction of Dam, (646) Passenger Steamboat Service, (60)

BIRMINGHAM’S City Debt, (20)
Birmingham Tame and Rea Drainage Works, (483)
Birmingham University, Chair of Electrical Engineering Established, (603)
Blast Furnace Reactions, 397
Blasting by Steam, S, and A. Rogers, U.S.A., (227)
Blue-printing Machine, Au Automatic, Mr. L. Shaw, 451

Boilers:

Babcock and Wilcox, H.M. Cruiser Black Prince, 644
Circulation in, Donald H. Lea, 156, 235 ; I. D., 187
Corrosion, Curious Case of, 115, 131 Coverings, 131, 156
Durr at St. Louis Exhibition, 104
Energy, Steam, 13
Explosions—see Accidents, Explosions, Fires Failure, A Mysterious, 280, 301
Feeder, A Series, 305 Feed-water Heating, 184, 213
Inspection, Messrs. Jesse Tildesly and Co., Fined for Omitting, (697)
“ Live Steam ” Feed-water Heating, 184 Navy, 159, 185, (370)
Niclausse and the Queensferry Works, 7, 8, 9, (651)
Niclausse at the St. Louis Exhibition, 103 Report of the Committee on, 137 Tubes, Corrugated, (64)
Water Circulation in, H. Coke Powel, 110
Water, Treatment of, American Softening Plants, (239)
Water-tube, Mr. A. Bement on Priming and Baffle Plates, 547
on the Counter-current System, (230)
Discharge of Water with Steam from: Cause and Remedies, Mr. E, Bement on, 604, 630 The Hardie-Thompson, 374 Mr. J. C. Jefferson on Recent
Improvements in, (456)
Works, Niclausse, Queensferry, 7, 8, 9 Water-tube, and Reducing Valves, Letters on, 252, 280, 307, 331, 352

BORING Mill, 30in. Double, Webster and Bennett, 320, 321
Borsig, Aug., Hundredth Anniversary of his Birth, (230)
Bower, Mr. James, 19 Boys What to do with our, (646)
Bradford Technical Collego, Apprenticeship Courses, (597)
Brake, Prony, Employed in Hydraulic Laboratory, University of California, (85)
Bricks from Destructor Clinker, Manufacture of, 214, (235)
Bricks, Sand Lime, (521)

Bridges, Railway and other, and Viaducts:

Burma Railway, (498)
Cape Breton and Canada, 444
Ceylon, with Spans of 150ft,, (621)
Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, Work in Hand, (98), (230), (555), (634)
Corea, (323)
Design in Relation to the Durability of, 269
Ferro-concrete, at Purfleet, 428
General Design and Erection of, Mr. J, Husband on, (582)
Hedjaz Railway, Tenders Invited for Five Large Metal, (35)
Indus, Permanent, over the, Allotment Sanctioned by the Government of India, (11)
Kemey’s Chain Bridge to be Replaced by a Steel Suspension, (546)
Knowlmere Manor Concrete, Mr. J. G. Mouchel, 178
Llanfair Caereinion, Erection of a New, (621)
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, Bridge Renewing, (64)
Manchester, Water-street, Demolition of, (230)
Manhattan, (345)
Mississippi, Destruction of a, by Wind, by Mr. C. A. P, Turner, .590
Mayenoe, Railway Bridge near, 468, 469
Neckar, Concrete, 650
Newport, Transporter, 506
New York Avenue, Railway, (498)
New York, 374
North British Railway, Peebles Branch, New
Steel Girder, (230)
North-Eastern Railway Company, Across the River Wear, (21); Across the River Tyne, (555)
Paddington Canal, Projected Improvements,
Plate Web Girders, 257 ; and Letters on, 306, 331, 352, 375. 401
Planen, Stone Viaduct, (323)
Ranewing a Railway, Messrs. Head, Wrightson and Co., Limited, 64
Rye Swing, Reconstruction cf, Mr. P. C.
Tempest, 58, 62, 128, 129
Soissons, Armoured Concrete Skew, M. Hanne- bique, 342, 343
Stoke Canon, 494
Swale, Railway Bridge over the River, 470 Sydney Harbour, 153, 154, 155
Thusis, over the Rhine at, 511, 512, 513, 519 Tyne, High Level, (634)
United States America, Light Suspension, 226 United Statss, North Plate River, Wyoming, (646)
Victoria Falls, Zimbesi River, (98), (230), (555) Vauxhall, 436, 437, (571)
Walney Island, (11)
Washington, Across the Potomac, (337)
Wear, (21), 233
Worcestershire, Great Westarn and Midland Railway Companies, Appeal to the County Council, (97)
Zimbesi, Victoria Falls, (98), (230), (634)

British Association for the Advancement of Science:

Presidential Address of Mr, Balfour, 185, 1S9

CHEMICAL SECTION—
Energy of Water and Steam at High Temperatures, Professor C. Dieteiici, 212
Low Temperature Phenomena, New, Sir Jas. Dewar, (218)
Relation between the Crystalline and Amor- phocs States as Disclosed by Surface Plow of Solids, Mr. G. Beilby, 210

ENGINEERING SECTION—
Programme of Papers, Address of the Hon. C, A. Parsons, 215
Alternating Current Motor?, Mr. W. Cramp, (249)
Barrage of the Thames, Propssed, Mr, J. Casey, 219
Distribution of Magnetic Induction in Multipolar Armatures, Dr. W. M. Thornton, 222
Effects of Receiver Drop in a Compound Engine, Mr. J. W. Hayward, 215
Electrical Conductivity of Certain Alumicium Alloys as Effected by Exposure, Professor E. Wilson, 219
Electric Temperature Alarm, Mr. Il, Darwin, (249)
Electricity on the North-Eistern Railway and on Tyneside, Use of, Charles H. Merz and W. MacLellan, (221). 260
Electricity from Water Power, Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton, 221
Energy Losses in Magnetising Iron, Messrs, Mordey and Hansard, 221
Exhaust Gas Calorimetry, Professor B. Hopkin- son on, 211
Flame Temperatures in Internal Combustion Motors, Mr. Dogald Clerk on, 210, (326)
Fracture of Structural Steel under Alternating Stresses, John Oliver Arnold, (.*<^c also Leaders 255, 277), 227, 218
Heusler Alloys of Manganesp, Copper, and Aluminium, Mr. R. A. Hadfield, on the New. 248
Hopkinson Test as applied to Induction Motors, Messrs Sumpner and Weekes, 221
lodicator Tests of a Small Petrol Motor, Prof. H. L. Callender, (218)
Investigations upon the Ten Candle-power Harcourt Pentane Lamp, Mr, Clifford C. Paterson, 222
Iron and its Alloys, Low Temperature Research on the Mechanical Properties of, Mr. Hadfield and Professor Dowar, 218
Tjirge Bnlb Eleciric Incandescent Lamps as Secondary Standards of Light, Professor J. A. Fleming, 222
Lightning Effects, Mr. Kdlingworth Hedges, (249)
Mersey Tidal Regime Committee, Mr. Shool- bred’s Report of, (248)
Motor Cars, Side-slip in, Messrs. H. Durwin aud V. C. Barton, 218
Nile, Control of the, Maj-irSir HanburyBrown, 218
Specific Heats ofGases at High Temperatures, Professor Dixon on the, 211
Testing Machine, Universal, Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 236, 237, 248

GEOLOGICAL SECTION—
Professor Aubrey Strahan on Earth Movements, 209
Ripple Marks and Sand Dunes, Prcf^scor Geo. Darwin, 212
Sand Ripples, Oiigin of, Mrs. Ayrton of, 210

MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS SECTION—
Professor Horace Lamb’s Address, 209 Physical Laboratory, National, Dr. Glazebrook’s Report on its Work, 248
Reform of the Association, 256

BRITISH Consul. In Defence of the, 103
Goods Made in Germany, 43
Brass for the Admiralty, Mr. Pretyman’s Reply to Mr. M. W. Ridley, (111)
Brooks, Mr. J. F., IBs Research Work at the Leicester Engineering Laboratories, (656)
Brown and Co., John, Atlas Steel and Ironworks, Annual Meeting of Shareholders, (21)
Budget, South African, (216)
Burner, Lucal Oil Fuel, 330
Burrell, Mr. R. G., (279)

CABLEWAY Across River at Victoria Falls, (230)
Calcium Carbide in the Electric Furnace, Manufacture of. (253), (471)
Canada and Dumping, 38

Canals:

Basingstoke, Sale by Auction, (205), (253), (445)
Bengal, 640
Briare to Nantes, Projected, (35)
Commission of the Prussian Diet, Bills Passed by,(498)
Danube-Oder to the Weichsel and to the Middle Elbe, (205)
Dortmund-Ems, Re-instatement of Navigation, (323), (498)
Dortmund-Rhine, (498)
Erie, Electric Towing Systems Suitable for, (345)
Florida, Project for Building a Ship Canal across, (35)
Germany, Projected, (498)
Ivory Coast, Surveys and Estimates for Cutting. (621)
Legislation connected with the Control cf,(445)
Manchester Ship, Accounts for Half-year, (134); October Traffic, (521) ; November Traffic, (639)
Bill, Unopposed, its Object, (157)
Breach in, (35)
Moldau-DanubSj (205)
New York State, Contrac’s for Canal Across, Soon to be Advertised, (345)
Niagara, Another Canal at, 185
Nicaragua, No Prospect of the Construction of, (230)
Niemen and Vistula, (205)
North Sea and Baltic, Joly, August and October Traffic, (276), (345) (597)
Panama, 348, (370), (651)
Petersburg, Dredgers at Work Dsepening the
Maritime Canal, and Cost of the Work, (393), (419)
( Saulte Ste. Marie Ship, Experiments with Concrete Superstructure for Piers, (498)
Scheme for Placing Canals and Inland Navigations under Control of One Authority, (471) Suez, A New, (621)
Suez, Traffic, 1903, (157); 1904, August and October, (299) (59/)
Traffic, Mansion Horse Association on Railway and, (445)
Vi3nna-TrKs’:e, (205)

CARBORUNDUM, Acheson Works, (276) Carburetters, J. S. V. Bickford, 95
Carlisle Agreement, The Alleged Infraction of the Fourth Clause, (217)
Carol Rop’S Rival Manila, (230)
Carr, Mr. Mark William, (137)
Case Hardening, (321)
Cassiterite in South Africa, Discovery of, (216) Casting from the Blast Furnace, Direct, 5 Castings, Largo, 454

Catalogues:

75, 99, 145, 171, 193, 219, 241, 265, 335, 357, 381, 407, 427, 508, 534, 5.56, 582, 632, 654

CEMENT Consumption in the United States, 1850, 1902, (546)
Imports, United States, (471) Manufacture of, Mr. R. W. Lesley on, 537
Kiln, Rotary, A Commercial Success in the United States, (646)
Portland, Amended Definition of the Term, (471)
Portland, United States Production, (646)
Production, United States, (253) Sampler, 162
Sewer, Chicago, (61)
Centenarian Railway, Advertisement, A, 479 Chain-testing Machine, 100-Ton, Messrs. Sam. Denison and Son, 84
Chimney Stacks, Concrete, in Cincinnati, (157) 230ffc. Steel, Mexico, (253) Struck by Lightning, (157)
Civil List of New York City, (571)
Clarke-street Works, Derby, 108, 109, 112, (144)
Cleaning and Raising the Pile of Carpets, &c.. Patent for, (85)
Clinker Brick-making Plant, Plumstead, 214, (235)
Clyde Navigation Trust, Annual Revenue, (61)

Coal:

Anthracita Mines, Pennsylvania, (61) Barcelona, 1903, Total Quantity Imported into,
Bituminous, Production in United States, 1903, (205)
Bordeaux, 1903, Total Quantity Imported into, (134)
Boring for, at Point of Ayre, Abandoned for the Salt Industry, (471)
Brazil, Absence of, (419)
British, Exported, 1903, (11), (157)
British, Exported to Jerusalem, (111) Claverley, Shropshire, Experimental Sinkings, (332)
Consumption of the Moulineaux Power Station in Paris, (323)
Contracts, Railway, 579, 649
Conveying Plant at the Manchester Power Station, 346, 354
Cost of British, to Russia, Czar Orders it to be Replaced if Possible by Russian, (370)
Cutting Machinery, Increasing Use of, (393) Depot, The Largest Floating, (II)
Dinnington Main Colliery Company’s Sinking Operations, (276) ®
Dust or Fire-damp Explosions, (393)
French Collieries’ Output, (393)
Great Britain, Export, September, 1904, (893) Great Britain, Total Output, 1903, (11) (157)
Hoisting Tower, Boston, Wrecked by' Wind, (393)
Indian Exports of, from the United Kingdom, (32€)
Locomotive Consumption, United Kingdom, (276)
Mines, Nationalisation of German, 184 Mining in New South Wales, (276)
Mining in Pennsylvania, (134)
New South Wales 1902-1903 Production, (157) Output from Collieries in India and Burma, 1903, (323)
Peru, Large Area of, in, (498), (546)
Piers, at Milwaukee, Wis., (253) Prussia, Pits in Operation ia, (276) Prussia, Half-year’s Production, (419) Screening Plant for Mirfield Colliery, 181 Screening Plant, Thryburgh Colliery, Kilnhurst, Graham, Morton and Co., Limited, 552
Storage and Handling Plant, New York Navy Yard, Steel, (230), 239 ; Precautions against Spontaneous Combustion Used in Construction of, (230)
Submerged, Experiments at Portsmouth with, (471)
Testing Plant, St. Louis Exhibition, (445) Thick Seam Discovered Under the Bloomfield Ironworks, Tipton, (521)
Total Quantity Brought by Railway, Canal, and Ssa within Radius of 15 Miles of Charing Cross, (253)
Trade of Algiers and Gibraltar, (134) Transporter, Rouen, (182)
Warley and Hales Owen, New Seams Discovered, (8.5), (97)
Welsh, (217), 257, 325
Welsh Steam, Sir Lees Knowles’Announcement in Regard to the Exports of, to Russia and Japan, (217)
Yorkshire, 227

COAST Erosion, (370) (393), 503
Colliery Cage Accidents, Preventing, 529
Combustion within Air Compressors, Accidents Due to, 10
Commercial Possibilities of Liquid Air, 612
Compass, Mr, Heit’s Patent, (205)
Compressed Air-pawer Transmission, (47)
Compressed Air in Quarry Work, 232
Compressibility, Determining, Messrs, T. W. Richards’ and W. N. Stoll’s New Method for, (35)
Compression Tests, 235
Compressor, The Air—Air Compressor Conciliation and the Moulder, 574
Concrete Beams, Flexure of Reinforced, 295 Efflorescence of, (252) Piers, Hot, (646)
Pile Contract, The Largest Ever Awarded, (370)
and Reinforced Concrete, Papers on, 537
Steel used for Reservoirs in United States, (646)
Stone, Brick, in America, War between, (498)
Superstructure for Canal Piers, (498) Congress of Mining and Metallurgy at Liege, (276)
Contractor’s Legal Obligations, A, 173, 195

Contpacts:

20, 74, 98, 120, 133, 170, 281, 310, 334, 345, 370, 503, 556, 582, 634, 656

COOKE, Mr. R. T., 187

Copper:

Aluminium Alloys, Effect
sphere on the Conductivity of, (299) Deposits near the Baikal-Rmg Railway, (424) Japanese, Silver and Gold Contained in, (299) Leader on, 348
New South Wales Production, 1902, 1903, (157) Pipes, Corrosion of, How to Prevent, (621) Queensland, in the Great Mount Morgan Gold Mine, (521)
Rscalescent Alloys of Antimony and, (571)
Sulphate Treatment for Water Supply, 34, (471)

CORROSION, Curious Case of, 115, 131
Cotton, American, Received at Manchester, (597) Raisingin Cuba, (621)
Industry at Linchingchou, Scheme for Encouraging the, (445)
to Manchester, Importation of Raw, (546) Mill at Heywood, New, (621) Paraguayan, (134)
Crane, Coal-handling, United States, (297) Electric, for South Africa, (646) 50 ? Ton Electric, Stothert and Pitt, Limited, 161
Excavator, 5-Ton Steam, 116 Navvy, Steam, Ruston Procter and Co., 295, 296
Cranes, Relative Economy of Hydraulic and Electric Mechanism for Dock, (276)
Crane, 30-Tons Steam Travelling, Messrs. Cowans, Sheldon and Co., Limited, 279
Crookes, Mr. Chas,, (331)
Crookes Tubes, Regulation of the Vacuum in. (646) '
Croton Dam, The, 209
Cuba, Cotton Raising, and Machinery Trade in. (621) ’
Customs Duties in Russia, 1903. Revenue from (182)
Customs Duties of United States Tariff to ba Extended to the Panama Canal Zone, (182)
Cycles Imported into Switz jrland, (646)
Cycles, Drop in the Prices of. Advice to Purchasers, (205)
Cycles in Use in France, Report concerning Number of, (299)

DAIRY Show, 1904, 349
Dalmatia, Development of, 478
Dam, Croton, 209
Dam, A Lag, on the Clackamas River, (521)
Davies, Mr. E. J. Mines, 19
Deafness Desirable in a Storekeeper, (373)
Death-rate of the City of London, Fail since 1899. (370)
Defence of the British Consul, In, 103
Derrick Formed of Two Sticks of Oregon Pine, Stone Columns weighing 90 Tons, (61)
Dewar, Sir James, The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Awarded to, (546)
Diamond Mine, The Premier (Transvaal), by Stafford Ransome, 588
Dielectric Solids, V. Cremieu and L. Malcles on Researches on, (546)
Direct Casting from the Blast Purnace, 5

Docks

Aberdeen, Proposed New, (205)
Bordeaux, Floating, (205)
Birkenhead, Improvements Projected, (544)
Cardiff, Pumping Plant for the New South, W. H. Allen, Son, and Co., Limited, 564, 565, (606)
Elderslie Graving, Power Gas Plant for, 150, 151
Grimsby, Projected Improvements, (205)
Hebburn-on-Tyne Graving, Messrs. R. Stephenson and Co.’s, (191), 390
King Edward’s, Gibraltar, Water let into, (61)
Kobe Floating, Pumping Plant for, W. II. Allen, Son and Co., 91
Leith Harbour, New Imperial, (471)
Liverpool, 420, 492
Mersey Docks and Harbour, Tonnage Inwards and Outwards for 1902, 1903, (35); Retirement of Mr. B. G. Proctor, (597); Projected Improvement afid Development, (157), 420, 428, (544); Deepening, (621)
North - Eastern Railway Company’s Dock, Middlesbrough, (98), (111)
Pembroke, Torpedo Depot Projected at, (218) Swansea, New, (98), 109
Workington, Purchase of Harbour and Dock by Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co., (546)

Dockyard Notes:

Admiral Class out of Commission, All the, 15 Admiral Fisher’s View that British Squadrons should all be Armoured, 501
Ansaldo Bros.’ Yard, Turned into Limited Liability Company, 280
Apollo Class to be Distributed as Drill Ships, 601
Ardent, Fato of the Destroyer, 391 Arrogant, Re-armament of, 96
Austrian River Monitors, Temes and Bedrog, 225
Battleships, King Edward VII., Dry Dock at Gibraltar, 475
De.ks Damaged at her Gun Trials, 549
Gun Trials, 475
Iler Portsmouth Trips, 349, 391 ; Submerged Tubes for, 601
Lord Nelson and Lord Mayor, The New, 115
Swiftsure, 115, 652 Triumph, 115, 453, 652
Belleville Motor Cars, 625
Boiler, New Type of, 15 Boiler Removed from the Hermes, Use of, 15
Black Prince, Launch of, 247, 391
Boiler Committee Experiments, Coal Consumption of Babcock and Belleville and Yarrow Boilers, 57, 96
Boxer, Fate of the Destroyer, 391
British v, Japanese Embarkation of Soldiers, 247
British Squadrons should all be Armoured, 501 C?C3ar, Firing of the, 332; Flagship of the Channel— ex Home Fleet, 652
Capped Shot, its Introduction into the Navy lags, 453
Chamois, Raising of the Destroyer Abandoned, 391
Channel Fleet, Notes from the, 652
Coal to Russia and Japan, Supply of, 549
Coaling at Sea, Experiments with the Metcalfe Invention, (471), 475
Coaling at Sea, Experiments with the Moissenet Apparatus, 453; of the Royal Sovereign, 652
Cressy, Speed Attained in her Eight-hours Sea Trial, 375, 391
Cruisers Condemned, 549
Cumberland to join the Cruiser Squadron, 652
Defence, 625
Names of the Four New, 185
of the Mediterranean Fleet and Neglected Defects, 391
of the Minotaur Class to be Built without Rams, 532 ; to be Named Defence and Shannon, (625)
Dimensions and Design of, 247 Terrible Refitted, has Run Satisfactory Trials and is to Leave for China, 15^
Terrible, New Propellers for, 549 ; Speed from Wei-hai-Wei, 549
Theseus to Pay-off at Devonnort, 501 Destroyers Eden and Derwent, Competitive Trials of, 349
Exe Class, The New, 15 of the Mediterranean Fleet and Neglected Defects, 391
Dragon, Fate of the Destroyer, 391 Dutch Torpedo Boats, Trial Results, 453 “Feverish Activity in the Dockyards,” no Actual Existence, 453
Formidable, Commission for the Mediterranean, 349 ’
French Battleship Carnot, Bilge Keels Fitted to, 625
Budget for 1905, 625
Cruiser Dupetit Thouars, Record of 1*21 lb. per Indicated Horsepower Secured in Consumption Trials, 625
Edgar Quinet, The New, to have Six Funnels, 280. 375, 652
Leon Gambetta, Trial of, 280 Renan to have Six Funnels, 375, 652
Gambatta, Trials of, 225 Monitor Furieux, 225
Navy List, Ships Removed from, 453 Submarine X Launched, 625 Torpedo Gunboat Condor, Successfu Trials Completed, 625
Funnel Hits in Warships, 532 Gasoline, What it is, 96
German Battleship “P,” 115
Naming of the New, 549 N Class to have Sin. of Krupp Armour and no Cylindrical Boilers, 247
“P” Laid Down, 453
Brandenburg Class, Reconstruction of the Weissembourg, Kurfurst, Eriedrich Wilhelm, and the Woerth, 115
Cruiser Boon, New System of Armouring, 115
Kaiser, Deutschland, and Koaig Wilhelm Eliminated, 115
Gibraltar, The, Eeplaces the Iris, 601
Hannibal, her Last Prize Firing, 601
Hogue, Commission for the China Station, 349, 391
Home Fleet, The, 453
Iris, Put Out of Commission as a Training Ship. 601
Italian Battleship Kegina Margherita, 115
Italian, Vittorio Emanuele, 652
Japanese Battleship Hei Yen, her Previous History and Final Fate, 375 Battleship Yoshima, 475, (652) Cruiser Otawa, 652
Cruiser Yayeyama, 652
Kiel, New Torpedo Harbour at, 115
Klado, Captain, 453
Lord Nelson Class, Latest Rumour about the, 225 ; Tonnage of the, 185
Losses of Destroyers and Torpedo Boats, 247
Medea, Trip to Malta to Test her Yarrow Boilers, 15
Mediterranean Fleet, The Reconstructed, 601
Monmouth, Trip from Gibraltar to Plymouth, 96
Motor Cars, Naval Officers to be Allowed 6L a Mile, Using their Own, 625
Old Ships, Use of, 15
Pathfinder, Launch of the Scout, 96
Petrol Motors, War Material Firms Specialisicg in,625
Portugal “ Going to” Increase her Navy, 532 Powerful, New Propellers for the, 549
Prince of Wales, Eighteen Months’ Cruise, 475
Propellers for the Powerful and Terrible, New, 549
Names Suggested for the Second Battleship of the Lord Nelson Class, 15
Naval Battles in the Far East, The, 185 Manceuvres, The, 15, 57, 96 Signal Station at Portsmouth, New, 96
New Zealand, Record-making at Portsmouth with the, 332
Northampton, The, 575
Reorganisation Schemes for our Cruisers, 649 Royal Sovereign, Coaling of the, 652
Russia, Destroyers Ordered by, 532
Russian Fleet, Our Crews’ Impression of, 501
Fleet at Port Arthur, Mystery of the Sunken, 625
Novik, Fate of the, 332 Rurik, Sinking of the, 247
Ships, Captain Klado Demands a “Third Squadron,” 601
Ships use Zinc to Patch Holes, 501
St. George Replaces the Northampton as Training Ship, 675
St. Petersburg, New Model Yard to be Built at, 501
Ships that are to go to the Scrap Heap or Harbour Service, 532
Stern Submerged Tubes for the King Edward VII,, and her Sisters, 601
Stoking Indicators and Mechanical Arrangements : The Drake has None, 453
Submarine Al to be Re-fitted, 96
Submarines, Cross-Channel Passage from Dover Prevented by Weather, 475
Lying at Minneapolis believed to be for Japan, 453
for the United States, Sum to be Spent on, 453
Wolseley Engines to be Fitted to the New, 625
Swedish Battleship Aground, 247
Swedish Submarine Hayem, 115
Torpedo, Triumph of the, 15
Torpedoes, Booming and Underestimation of, 247
Training Squadron, The New, 601
Turbines, Competitive Tests between the Curtis and Parsons, 453
United States Battleship New Hampshire, The New, 115
Cruiser Colorado, 115, 575 Cruisers, North Carolina and Michigan, The New, 115
Cruiser Pennsylvania, Speed Trials, 625
Col. Cuniberti’s Ideal Battleship, The Building of. Seriously Considered, 185
Scouts, Birmingham, Chester, and Salem, The New, 115 Warships to bo Sold Off Next Spring, 601 Yamada, Capt,, 247

DORMAN, Long and Co,, Limited, Report for 1904, (507)
Dover Colliery, 175, 199
Drainage, Gosport and Alverstoke Main, 156
Drainage Scheme for Spezia, Premium to the
Competitor Presenting the Best, (299) Drawings, Rights of Property in, 601 Dredger for Natal Harbour Works, Official Trials of, (157)
Drills, Twist. (571)
Drown, Dr. T. M., 549
Dry Air in the Blast Furnace, 532, 629 ; M. Herin le Chatelier on the Use of, (621)
Durand, Sir Mortimer, on the St. Louis Exhibition, 625
Dusseldorf, Congress of German Architects and Engineers, (205)
Dust Collector, New, 117
Dust-laying Experiments in Kensington, (521)
Dust League, Anti-, in Paris, (35)

EARTH Movements, Prof. Aubrey Strahan on, 209
East Coast, Erosion of the, (370), (393), 503
Education of the Mining Engineer, £0, 9t
Egypt Exploration Fund, Excavations of the, . (471)
Eiffel Tower to be Used for Studies Connected with the Problem of Flight, (597)
Eiffel Tower, Acetylene Phare, (11)

Electric:

Accumulator Batteries, Unsatisfactory Reports Regarding the Working of, Trscsable to the Use of Acid of Improper Quality, (11)
Adviser to the Government of India, Appointment of, (597)
Alternator, Curtis Turbo, 639
Alternator, High Frequency, Mr. W. Duddell, 631
American Patent for Converting the Energy of Fuel Directly into Electric Energy, (393)
Automobilism, Costs of, R. H. Smith on, 314 Boston, Electric Scheme Recommended by the Paving and Lighting Committee of, (182)
British Westinghouse Company, Limited, 575 Larville Power Station, 254, 260, 275 Clocks, Paris,* (35)
Conductivity of the Human Body, 434 Conductor, Prize Offered for Invention of Apparatus for Gauging the Current of an, (299)
Conductor’s Association Determines to Oppose Municipal Trading, (419)

Electrical Congress, The International, at St. Louis:

First Proceedings, Officers of the Sections, 359
Section A.—General Theory, Alternating- current Theory of Transmission Speed over Submarine Cables, Prof. Kennelly and other Papers, 359
B. —General Applications. 359
C. -Electro-Chemistry, 383
D. —Electric Power Transmission, 383
E. —Electric Light and Distribution, 383
F. —Electric Transportation, 383
G. —Electric Communication. 383
H. —Electric Therapeutics, 383 Reports on Electrical Standards, 384

CRANE, for South Africa, (646)
Crane, Stothert and Pitt, Limited, 161 Driving, in Cotton Mills, Messrs. ' Platt, Limited, (539) V, Gas Engines, 3 and Regulating Clocks • Selenium Cells, Herr Device, (345) in Works and Factories, of, Mr. G. H. Bowden <
Energy for Bilbao, (205) Energy for Liverpool, (419) Engineer Volunteers, 6 Exhibition, Shoreditch, 399
Exhibits at St. Louis Exhibition, (606) Experimental Investigation by Dr. T. Wulf, (35) Extensions, Wolverhampton, (169)
Furnace Method, M. A. Nodon’s New, (111), (253)
Furnace, Power Necessary for Manufacture of Calcium Carbide in the, (253)
Generating Station at Neepsend, 22
Geneva Firm’s Tests to Determine to what degree Insulation will serve with Continuous as compared with Alternating Current, (205)
Heat Insulating Media, Relative Efficiency of, 43
Heaters of Novel Form on the s.s. Minnesota, (546)
Hydraulic Power Plant, California, Interesting, (571). . ,
Industries in America, Buenos Ayres the most important Seat of, (621)
Installation, Messrs. Ernest Scott and Mountain’s, (535)
Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company’s Works, Manchester, 493, 495
Lift Hoisting Equipment, 480
Log Bind Saws, 479
Machinery, Standards for, 185
Middlesbrough Dock Power Plant, Vincent L. Raven, 139
Mining Machinery, 385 New York Power Station, 495
Niagara Falls Power Company, Gross Earnings. (345)
Ore Finder, Experiments with the, (217) Plant, North Italy, An Interesting, (498) Power Company, The Puget Sound, U.S.A.. 226, 250
Cost of, 332 Development at Niagara, 593, 598 Dover Corporation, (498)
Power, First International Convention for the Regulation of, (230)
Gas Plant for Elderslie Graving Dock, 150, 151 ? ’
in Italy, Increasing Use of, (571) Paper by Mr. S. B. Stillwell on, 518 for Pernambuco, (345)
' Plant, Hydro-electric, Turbigo. Italy, 622, 628 6 > J,
Stations, Costof Building and Equipping Large, (11)
Stations, Large v. Small, 368 Transmission from the Alps to Lyons, (253)
Transmission over Considerable Distances at Lyons, Development cf, (157)
Works on the Chicago Drainage Canal, (61) ’ Press-button Control tf Lifts, 480
Production throughout the World, Water Power Used for, (597)
Punkahs in Railway Carriages in India, (498) Resistance Furnace, Herr 0. Pniiich’s, (345) Resistance Furnace for the Cementation of Iron, used in 1815 by Pepys, (646)
Russia, Available Water Power of, (205)
Steel Furnace at Gysiuge, Sweden, F. A. Kjellin, 46; First Ingot Cast at, (61) ; Output of Steel per Twenty-four hours, (61)
Storage Batteries in Germany, Losses Occurrinfir in, (445), 479
Sub-station at Cornell University for Conductieg Experiments on Screw Propellers, (85)
Towing Systems on the Erie Canal, (345)
Traction of Coal, Tunstall, (297) in a Coal Mine, U.o.A., (297) on Tyneside, 274, 275 ,
Transmission Line Construction, California, (297)
Transmission Line of the Washington Power Company, (11)
Transporters, Electrically-driven, 650
Transporters for Shalimar, (299)
Water Power in Lyons, Use of, (157)
versus Steam Traction, Paper by Mr. A. Siemens on, 518 Utilisation of the Rhine at Laufenburg, (230)
Welding of a Cylinder of 1000 Horse-power
Engine, Herr Meng’s Account of the, (445)
Winch, Electrically-driven, Chambers, Scott and Co., 297

Electric Light:

Bournemouth, Sunday Observance, (571)
Cannock,(169)
Coventry, (46)
Dover Corporation, (498)
Edinburgh, Financial Matters, (162)
Edison Electric Light Companies, Management of the, Mr. E. Kilburn Scott on tho, 354
Espinar, (299)
Holyhead, (299)
Incandescent Lamps, Tests of all the Makes of, (646)
Largo Bulb Incandescent Electric Lamps as
Secondary Standards of Light, Professor J. A. Fleming, 222
Leeds, (323)
Light in Railway Carriages, India, (498)
Lighting Standards, Tests Carried Out Under Mr. L. Wild, 549
New Type of Lamp, Invented in America, (182)
Pentane Lamp, Investigations upon the Ten
Candle-power Harcourt, Mr. Clifford C. Paterson, 222
Rio Janeiro, (419)
St. Petersburg, Vassily-Ostroff, (205)
Street Lighting by Small Current Enclosed Arc Lamps, Mr. J. H. Hallberg, (571)
Sydney, (219)
Workington, (621)

Electricity:

Bournemouth Municipal Works, Units Generated in Six Mouths, (521)
Bradford, Distribution of, (597)
Distribution of Magnetic Induction in Multipolar Armatures, Dr. W, M. Thornton. 222
Energy Losses in Magnetising Iron, Messrs. Mordey and Hansard, 221
Erith, Undertaking, Loan Applied for, (621)
From Water-power, Mr, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 221
Hamilton in Ontario, Hydraulic Plant for the Production of Electricity at Decew Falls, (393)
Hopkinson Test as Applied to Induction Motors, Messrs. Sumpner and Weekes, 221 Installations, List of the World’s Water-power, (597)
Liverpool, Increased Consumption of, (419)
Mines, (74)
Refuse Destruction and, 397
Rio Janeiro, Its Advantages for Lighting and Industrial Purposes Fully Appreciated in, (419)
Supply for Darjeeling, (299)
Madras, (276) Petersburg, Proposed Purchase of Waterfall for, (498)
Use of, in Factories, &.c,, 399, 500
Use of, Upon the North-Eastern Railway and upon Tyneside, Messrs, Merz and McLellan, 221, 260. 282
Water-power, South Africa, 453
Windmills for Generating, Increasingly Used i in Western America, (61)
Windmill for Generating, Denmark, (61) Works, Leeds Corporation, Triple-expansion Engine, 612, 613
Mussooria and Landour, (182) Stoke-on-Trent, (445), (456) Wolverhampton, Accounts of, (70)

ELECTROLYTIC Methods of Treating Tin Scrap, 5, 131
Elevator, Grain, Port Colborne. Canada, (299) Tailings, South Africa, (430) at Leith Docks, New Grain, 259
Emery Wheels, Experimental Work with Solid, 202
Emigrants, Information for, 354
Entropy Diagrams, The Temperature, Mr. G. J. Wells, (432)
Erosion, Coast, (370), (393), 503
Excavator, 5-Ton Sceam Crane, 116
Excavator, Steam, Mr. A. W. Robinson, 350 Exhaust Gas Calorimetry, Professor B. Hopkinaon on, 211
Explosions in Air Compressors, Mr. E. Goffe on the Causes of, 481 |
Explosion of Gaseous Mixtures, 37 '
Extraordinary Traffic on Public Roads, From a Legal Contributor, 363

Engineering, Engineers, Engines, Motor’s:

Engineering:

Apprentices on the Wear, The Allan Scholarship for, (21)
Congress, Sr. Louis, Papers Read at, (157), 487, 517, 537, 561
Education, Professor R. Fletcher, 562 Electric, Chair of, Established at Birmingham University, (603)
Engineering Section, British Association, Papers Read in, 210, 221, 487
Enterprises in Canada, 70
Exhibits, Review of the, St. Louis Exhibition, 316, 386
Faculty of, in the University of Liverpool, 129 Feat, Smart, (534)
Fortifications, Major G. W. Goethals, 562 Guy’s Hospital, 362, 412, 465
Highway Construction, M. Forestier, 561 Lighthouse Engineering, Mr. T. Matthews, M. Ribiere and Lieut,-Colonel Lockwood on, 487
Marine, Mr. W. F. Durand, 562
Mining, M. Gruner, 562
Naval Architecture, Sir Wm. H. White, 561' Progress, 475
Structures, Paints Suited for, 41
Visitors to Germany, British, 137
Works Policy and Modern Competition, Mr. Bardill on, (483)

Engineers:

“Alien,” 187
Cadets, Naval, 120
Certificates, Canadian Association of Steam Engineers’ Petition, (498)
Civil, and our Export Trade, R. L., 110; A Manufacturer, 131 ; Manufacturing Engineers, 186
Education of the Mining, 90, 94
Electric, The Corps of Volunteer, 6
of the First-class Battleship Princo of Wales, Messrs, Scott and Co., 12,15
and Iron, 549
Kerr, Mr. Walter C., “The Point of View,” Address to Young Engineers to be, 653
Literature in the Non-technical Press, Remarkable, (571)
Plant, Brighton Municipal School of Science and Technology, (597)
Salaries in New York City, (571)
School, Crystal Palace, Papers Read during the Session, (625)
Speciheations, 453, 637
United States Navy, 647
Visit of Belgian, (281)

Engines:

Acetylene Gas, 503, 551
Automobile Steam Fire, Herr M. Reichel, 163 Baam Pumping, 209
Building in the North, Sir C. Furness on, 444
Coal-consuming to Oil, Saving in Changing a Plant from, (621)
Compound Petrol, American Firm, (111)
Compound Winding, Robey and Co., 180, 181 Design of High-speed Enclosed Steam, 384, (427), 435, 490, 569, 611
Diesel, Fuel Consumption Test of a, (122)
Economy of Oil-consuming, (621)
Effects of Receiver Drop in a Compound, Mr. J. W, Hayward on the, 215
Efficiency of Heat, 348
Failures, Mr. Michael Longridge’s Report on. 207
Fire, The Wolseley Motor Chemical, (296)
Future of the Steam, Professor G. F. Charnock on, 401
Gas, Age of, and Inventor, (370)
Electric Driving v., 3
Exhaust Gas Calorimeter, Professor Hop- kinson’s, 211
in Iron and Steel Works, Mr. J. H. Hamilton on, 554
Natural, Tests on a Large Number of Similar Internal Combustion, (85)
The Perfect Starter for, 239
Power of, Mr. W. T. Flint, 65 Water Required to Keep the Cylinders Cool, (157).
H.M.S. Black Prince’s {iSnpplement December 1904), 643
High-speed, John Hind, jun., on (reference to p. 384), 42/
Enclosed Steam, 384, (427) Internal Combustion, 134, 148. 173, 210, 235
Ignition in Internal Combustion, Sir Oliver Lodge on, 567
Indicator, The Starr Brass, 479
Marine, Models at South Kensington, 491
Marine, Problem of Screw Propulsion, 43
Modern High-speed Steam, Messrs. W. H. Allen, Son and Co., Limited, 54, 55, 96
Motors, Flame Temperatures in Internal Combustion, Mr. Dugald Clerk on, 210
of the New Passenger Steamers for the Thames, 620
Oil, 47 Brake Horse-power, Crossley Bros., Limited, 246
Portable, with Reversing (isar, Campbtll Gas Engine Company, 594
at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 16, 17
Pistons for High-speed, 384, (427)
Potential Efficiency of Prime Movers, C, V, Kerr, 68
Power of Steam, 70
Prime Movers, Potential Efficiency of, Mr. C. V. Kerr, 3, 13
Pumping, W. H. Allen, Son and Co., 91, 564,565
American, 448
Gainsborough Waterworks, Mr. Percy GrifBch, 104, 106
Hathorn, Davey and Co. (Letter), 532
Hinksford, Fawcett, Preston and Co., Limited (Supplement^ July 22nd, 1904), 28, 36, 40, 96
Large, Chicago, 72
Six-cylinder Quadruple-expansion, 1500 Horsepower, Soc. Anonyme des Etablissomenis Delaunay, 366, 367
Small Rotary Steam, Weighing 4J lb., (11)
Steam, Design of High-speed Enclosed, 384, (427), 435, 490
C. V. Kerr on the Potential Efficiency of Prime Movers, 68
at the St. Louis Exhibition, 195, 222, 249, 294, 337, 366, 409, 463, 516
Stop Valves and Gauges, Mr. A. II. Hopkinson on, (556)
Traction on Common Roads, 448
Tandem Compound, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited (Supplement^ September 19C4),
Throttle Valves, 559, 560
Traction, at the Royal Agricultural Societ)’s Show, 16, 17
Triple-expansion, 1400-Kilowatt, J. and H. McLaren, 612, 613
Triple-expansion, 7500 Indicated Horse-power, H.M.S. Prince of Walts, Messrs. Scott and Co. (Supplement, July 1904)
Vacuum, Meesrs. Hardy and Padmoro, 304
Valve Gear, Telescopic Steam, La Socidt^' B^llinckx, 411, 418
Willans’ Constant Thrust, Trials of, 234

Exhibitions, St. Louis

No. V., 10; VL, 30; IX., 103; X., 125; XIII, 195; XIV., XVI., 294 ; XVII , 366; XX., 386; XXL. 409; XXIL, XXIIL, 515 ; XXIV., 589 ; XXV.. 639
Awards to British Exhibitors. 481, 651 Ceylon Exhibits, Awards to, (646) Coal-testing Plant, (445)
Durand, Sir Mortimer, on the Exhibition. 625 Electrical Congress, International, 359, 383 Electric Exhibits at, 606
Engineering Congress, International, (157), 467, 487,617,537
Engineering Exhibits, Review of the, 316, 386 Engines, Steam, 195, 222, 249, 294, 337, 366. 409, 463, 515 > , * . .
Farnley Iron Company, Medal for the “Best Yorkshire Iron,” (446)
“Lighthouse Engineering,” Papers on, 487
Locomotive Mallet Duplex Compound {Supple- 'menlf September IQtk, 1904), 274
Locomotive Testing Plant [Supplement, Auaust 19^/t, 1904), 178, (646)
Medals Awarded, (419), (445). (646)
Power Plant, 80, 103, 125, 147, 174
Sirocco Fans, Medal Awarded to Messrs.
Davidson and Co. for, (419)
Steam Turbines at, 689, 639
Steel Testing, High-speed, (323)
Surveying and Mining Instruments, Meda’s Awarded to Messrs. John Davis and Sons, Limited, for their, (419)

Explosives:

Black and Brown Powder, Cordite Replaced by Smokeless, (597)
Cordite Factory on the Nilgiiis, (323) Projectiles, Bethlehem Steel Company’s, (597) Projectiles, Heclon A.P., 376
Smokeless Powder, (597)
Smokeless Powder, “Marksman Smokeless,” (182)
Torpedoes in Action, Letter on, 306
Brennan, Total Expenditure by the Admiralty on, (11)
The Whitehead, Its Present Range Renders it Ineffective in Future Naval Actions, (299)
Ordered at Fiume by Russia, (370)

FACTOKY Department, Keport of the Work of, (85)
Feed-water Heating, ** Live Steam,” 184 Kerry Works, Queensferry, 7
Fielding and Platt, Limited, Hydraulic Machinery, 8, 9
File-cutting Machine, (345)
Files and Rasps for the Royal Norwegian Naval Authorities, (521)
Filtration System, The Largest in the World, (297)
Finland, Exploitation of the Forests of Enare Lapmack, (323)
Fire Alarm, A Sensitive, (621)
Fire Apparatus, Private, in Chicago, (370) Firebricks, Refractory, (571)
Fire Engines, Automobile, Herr Reichel, 163 Engine, Motor Chemical, 296
Loss of the United States and Canada for November, (621)
Fishing along the Chinese Coast with Steam
Trawlers, Establishment of a Company, (^0) Flag Press for Destructor Clinker, Messrs. C. and A. Musker, 41
Flax in Belgium, Cultivation of, (276) Fog, Consumption of Gas and Electric Light during the, (846)
Fortifications, Major G. W. Goethals on, 562 Foundry Practice, French, (532)
Fownes, Mr. Henry, (201)
Freshwater Bay, Condition of Beach at, (253), (597) -
Fuel Economy, 229
Fuels, Comparison between the Calorific Values of Different, Used in Internal Combustion Engines, (621)
Furnace, Blast, The First Erected in South Africa, (61)
Furnaces, Blast, Nykoping, Sweden, Projected Erection, (85)
in Blast, Quarter Ended September 30bh, 1904, (345)
in the United Kingdom, June 80bh, 1904, (35) Dry Air in the Blast, 499, 632 Electric Steel, 46 The Garrett Reheating, (632) Lead, Converted into Matting, at San Luis Potosi, (521)
New Electric, Mr. A. Nodon’s Patent, (111)
Plant, American, 91
Portable Rivet, Mr. R. Hudson, 453

GARBAGE Disposal. American, 190
Garrett Reheating Furnace, Major Trinham on the, (632)

Gas:

Acetylene, Lighting the Traffic Yard at Lahore, (134)
Acetylene Phare on the Eiffel Tower, (11) Calorimetry, Exhaust, Professor B. Hopkinson ' on, 211
Coke Oven, Utilisation of, 234
Gas, Oil and Steam for Power, Mr. M. Long- ridge on, 277, 403
Generated by the Ovens in the Semet-Solvay Plant of the Milwaukee Gas and Coke Company, (36) .
Home-office’s Circular on the Dangers associated with Water Gas and other like Gases used for Industrial Purposes, (345)
Metropolitan Companies, Gas Supplied by. Report presented by the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade, (11)
Natural, at Aylesbury, (419)
Gas Wells in the United States, The Deepest, and the Highest Pressure ever shown by, (299)
Manufacturers and Domestic Consumers in America supplied with, (571)
Production in the United States, its
Value, (521)
Plant, Power, for Enderslie Graving Dock, 150, 161
Producer, Suction, Messrs. J. and 0. G. Pierson, 450
Pump, Automatic, (205)
South Metropolitan Company further Reduce Price of, (134) i
Suction Gas Producer, Messrs. J. and 0. G. Pierson, 450
Sulphur in Illuminating, 161
Supply of the Metropolis, Committee of the Board of Trade appointed to inquire into the, I (11)
Tamworth, Consumption and Reduced Price of, i (239) '
Turbine, Scientific Investigation into the Possibilities of the, Mr. Neilson on, 414, 422, 429
Works, Extension, Birmingham, (216)

GASEOUS Mixtures, Explosion of, 37

General Secretary (Mr. R. Bell) of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, his Action with regard to Protection of Electrified Railways in Lancashire, 170
German Coal Mines, Nationalisation of, 184
Gilmour, Mr. David, on South African Mining | and the Inventor, 322, 352 j
Glasgow University, Lord Kelvin and other Scientists, 554
Glommen Hydraulic Power Works, The, 197
Glover and Co., Limited, W. T., Contract acquired by, for Johannesburg Municipality, (217)
Gold-dredging Machinery, 201
Melting Point of, Jatiuerod and Perrot, (323)
Mining Industry in Lapland Unsatisfactory and Brought to a Close, (370), (498)
Output, Transvaal, (216)
Gosport and Alverstoke Main Drainage, 156
Graham, Morton and Co., Offer to Young Men who have obtained the B.Sc. in Engineering at the Armstrong College of Science, (507)
Gramme, Monument to, (11)
Greece, Roadmaking in. Survey of Thessaly in View of Hydraulic Works, (646)
Greece, Survey of, (498)
Greenwich Footw’ay Tunnel, Cost of, (621)
Gresham College, Lectures on the Infinitesimal Calculus, (423)
Grinder, Tool, 504
Guatemala, Timber and Rubber industry in, (134) Guhrolit, Artificial Buildiug Stone, (345) Guy’s Hospital, Engineering at, 362, 412, 465

HAIRPIN Manufacture at Painswick, (299) Hammersmith Ironworks, Annual Dinner of Apprentices, (697)
Hanley Sewage, (61)

Harbours and Waterways;

Algiers Harbour in the Bay of Agha, (123) Harbour Improvements, (345) Port as a Coaling Station, Importance of, (345)
Barcelona Plarbour Water Area, &3., (157) Belgian Waterways under State Control, (182) Bengal, Navigable Waterways, 640
Brindisi Harbour, Dredging in, (230)
Bristol Channel, Question of a Harbour of Refuge in, (157)
Cherepovetz^, River Harbour at, (621) Chicago, S., New Breakwater, (182) Chinwangtao, The New Port, (439)
Civita Vecchia Harbour Works, (134) Clackamas River, Oregon, Log Cofferdam on | the,(521) !
Colombo, Harbour Works, (323)
Cornish Coast, Harbour of Refuge Needed between St. Ives and Padstow, (498)
Cronstadt, Middle Harbour Closed, (182) Dover, New Ocean Pier at, (35); Admiralty Harbour at, (571)
Dover, Torpedo Boat Harbour, (205) Dredging of Ocean Bars, Major J. C. Stanford, 467
Flushing Harbour, Scheveningen, Mr. Wortman, 467
Galveston, Texas, Sea Wall at, (253) Gizon, Harbour Works, (182)
Harbours, Mr. W. Matthews on, 467
on Lakes Erie and Ontario, Major Kingman on, 467
and Works on the Sea Coast, Papers Read at the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis Exhibition, 467
Leith Harbour, New Imperial Dock at, (471), 550
Lerwick Harbour to be Enlarged, (182)
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Urges the Acquisition by the State of all Inland Waterways of the United Kingdom, (157)
Loire, Raking Dredge on the, 530
London, Port of, (393), 415
Melung Harbour Works, Formosa, (157)
Mersey, Annual Report on the Navigation of, (85)
Molesey, New Lock at, (571), (546)
Natal Harbour Development and the Resignation of Sir C. Hartley and Sir J. W. Barry, (498)
Naval Ports, Defences of our Great, 601
New Orleans, Channel to the Sea throufih the South-West Pass of the Mississippi, (35)
New York Harbour Improvements, Draught of Moving Steamers, 209
Niagara River, Proposed Improvement of the, 201
Niger, Improvement of the Navigation, (129) Odessa, New Harbour at, (323)
Osaka Harbour Opened, (253), (471)
Peterhead Harbour, (401)
Kibble Estuary, Extension of the Training Walls, Mr. Barron’s Report to the Committee, (111); Bill for Next Session, (445)
Rouen Harbour Improvement, (323)
Salen, Mull, New Pier at, (571)
Scarborough Harbour Extension, Cost of, (230)
Scarborough Sea Wall, (345)
Schutenlake Channel, Providing Dantz’g with a Shorter Water Approach from the Baltic Sea, (157)
Spezia Harbour, Improvement of, (157)
Sydney Harbour Bridge, 153, 154, 155 ; Dam, (230)
Thames Conservancy Board, Question of Petrol Launches, (419); Water Abstracted from the River, (419); New Lock at Molesey, (546), (571)
Construction of Dam, (646)
Proposed Barrage of the, Mr. J. Casey on, 249
Volga Delta, Sanded up and Unfit for Navigation, (370)
Workington Harbour, Purchased by Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co., (546)

HARRISON, Mr. Wm. Wheatcroft, 106 Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Limited, The
Admiralty and, (314)
Heat Diagram, Mr. G. J. Wells, (432) Efficiencies, C. V. Kerr on, 68
Insulating Media, Relative Efficiency of, 43
Heating Surface, On the Value of, (85)
Heaton, Mr. Geo., 263
“Heclon” Gyratory Rock and Ore Breaker, The, 424
Hele-Shaw, Prof., Post Accepted by, (597)
Helical Spur Wheels for Rolling Mill Work, P. R.
Jackson and Co., Limited, 454
Helium, Boiling Point of, Sir Jas. Dewar on the, (621)
Helium, its use as a Thermometric Substance, (546)
Hemp-stripping Machine, Mr. R. E. Lindsay, (597)
High-speed Cutting, 624
Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac, (331)
Hinksford, Pumping Engines at (ISupplement, July 22zicZ, 1904), 2?, 36, 40, 96
Hospitals at Leeds, New, (368), 406
Hot Brasses, 579, 629
Hot Springs and the Simplon Tunnel, 179, 244, 341, 385, 415, 568
Humid Cottem-weaving Sheds, The Factory and Workshops Act and, (85)
Hunt, Mr. Edmund, 593
Hutton and Sons, Limited, Messrs. William, Memorial Centre Ornament for Officers’ Mess Table, (431)
Hydraulic Machinery, Niclausse Boiler Works, Ferry Works, Queensferry, 8, 9

ICE Plant, Jerusalem, (253)
Ice Shipments from Norway, (182)
Impact Tests, Mr. Seaton and Mr, Jude on, 517, 523, 528
India-rubber Gloves, Use of, 619
India, Standard Times for, (247), (553)
Indian Mineral Production, 1903, 380
Indicator, Milner’s Speed, 551
Induced Draught, 532, 629
Industrial Progress of Japan, 201

Institute, City and Guilds of London;

Coker, Mr, E. G., his Appointment, (452)

Institute of Civil Engineers:

Yorkshire Section of, Visit to Middlesbrough,

Institute of Electrical Engineers, American:

Invitation to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and Arrangements for the Congress at St. Louis, (71)

Institute of Engineers, The Midland: Presidential Address, Mr. T. W. H. Mitchell. 529 ’

Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders, NoE. Coast:

Dates of Meetings, (406)

Institute, The Franklin:

Emery AVheels, Experimental Work with Solid. Mr. Dunkin Paret, 202

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Gold Medal Presented to Mr. Carnegie, 452
Iron, Application of Dry Air Blast in the Manufacture of, Mr. Jas. Galey, 428, (499), 505
Meeting in the United States, 19, 354, 428. 452, 514, 642 ; Programme, 235, 307 ; Sheffield Manufacturers Intending to Attend, 309
New York Power Stations, 495
Steel, Development and Use of High-sneed Mr. Gledhill, 464,482 K p ,
Visit to the American Steel and Wire Company’s Works, Cleveland, 514
Visit of Belgian Engineers, 227
Visit to the Maryland Steel Company’s Works Sparrow’s Point, 642 ’
Opening of Session, Programme for October, (349)

Institute of Mining’ and Mechanical Engineers, North of England: Annual General Meeting of the Members, Programme of Proceediogs, 137

Excursion Meeting, (276)

Institute, Northampton:

Lord Reay to Present the Prizes, (498)

Institute, The Sanitary:

Conference on School Hygiene, Meetings Arranged, (438)
Inaugural Address cf the President, Lord Blyth&wood, 130
Infectious Fever Hospitals, Discussion on, (368) Manchester Sewage Disposal, Cost of Filtration, Dr. Fowler, 130, (213)
Preliminary Programme of the Twenty-second Congress, 48
Professor Robinson’s Address to the Engineering and Architectural Section, (137)
Title of “Royal” Conferred by the King on the Institute, (419)

Institute of Sanitary Engineers:

Meetings and Lectures Arranged, (115), (351), (478)
Visit to Inspect the Liernur System of Sewage at Sfcanstead, (380); Naval Hospital, Chatham, (453)
Visit to Tunbridge Wells, (46)

Institute, Staffordshire Iron and Steel:

Presidential Address, Mr. H. B. Toy, (391) Gas Engines in Iron and Steel Works, Mr. J. H. Hamilton, 554

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Coast Erosion, Papers on, by A, E. Caray and E. R. Matthews, (503)
Education of the Young Engineer, Committee to Consider the Question, (230)
Electrical Energy, Distribution of, J. F. C. Snell, 553
Medals and Awards, (250)
Meetings to be Resumed, (391)
Miller Prize Awarded to Mr. J. E. Lister, (253) Pass List, October Examination, 553
Recent Visit to United States and Canada, Sir W. H. White on, (597)
NEWCASTLE - UPON - TYNE ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF—
Presidential Address. Sir G. L. Molesworth, Chiefly Devoted to India, 440
Visit to a Man-of-War Offered by Lord C. Beresford, (303)
YORKSHIRE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION—
Bridges, General Design and Erection of, Mr. J. Husband, (582)
Presidential Addres?, Mr. (530)

Institution of Civil Engineers: Ireland:

Experimental Excursion to Fishguard to be Organised for Next Year, (498)

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Annual Conversazione, 15
Dinner, (578)
Invitation from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Arrangements for Congress at St. Louis, (71)
Delegates Appointed to Attend the Electrical Congress at the St. Louis Exhibition, (85), (205) ’

GLASGOW LOCAL SECTION OF—
Opening Meeting, (349)
Third Annual Dinner, (399), (453)

LEEDS LOCAL SECTION—
Visits Arranged, (501)

MANCHESTER STUDENTS’ SECTION—
Meetings and Visits for 1904-5, (494)
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland:
Presidential Address of Mr. Worth, 506
Pyrometers for Industrial Purposes, Mr. R. S. Whipple, 625
Institution of Engineers, The Junior:
Annual General Meeting, (458)
Appointment of Mr. P. Watts, (646)
Summer Meeting at Diisseldorf, Programme, 166, 284 , & J
Torpedo Boat Construction, Mr. H. E. Yarrow, (582)
Visit to Berlin, (230)
to the Central Station of the South Staffordshire Mond Gas, Power, and Heating Company, 549
to the Chelsea Generating Station, Bryant and May’s Match Manufactory, 57
to the International Gas Exhibition, Earl’s Court, (643)
to the Granolithic Stone Company, Millwall Docks, 418
to the London Coliseum, (632)
to the National Harbour Works of Dover, 106
to the National Physical Laboratory, (401j

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland;

First Meeting, Forty-eighth Session, Paper on the Smoke Problem, Mr. F. J. Rowan, (453)

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Protection of Metallic Surfaces, Mr. H. Brandon, 391 *
Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Cast Iron Composition, Strength, and Specifi- cations, Mr. W. J. Keep, 66
Conversazione, General Meeting, 107
Design and Test of a Modern Steam Power J"^ant Mr. E. G. Hiller, 107, 118,119, (135), (137); Leader Referring to, 113
Heat Treatment Experiments with Chrome- Vanadium Steel, Capt. H, R. Sankey and Mr. J. K. Smith, 615
Impact Tests on the Wrought Steels of Commerce, Mr. A. E. Seaton and Mr. A, Jude, 517, (523), 528
Lathe Tool Dynamometer, Experiments with, Mr. J. T. Nicholson, 66
Middlesbrough Dock Electric and Hydraulic Power Plant, Mr. R. V. L. Raven, 29
Opening of Autumn Session, Storey’s-gate, 414
Power of Gas Engines, Abstract of Mr. W. T. Flint’s Paper on Commercial Gas Engine Test and Proposed Standard of Comparison, 65
Power Plant for Tall Office Buildings, Mr. J. H. Wei's and Mr. R, P. Bolton, 29
President’s (Mr. Wicksteed) Account of the Experiences of the Institution in America, 107
Prime Movers, Potential Efficiency of. Mr. C. V. Kerr, 3, 13
Strains and Annealing, Mr. W. Campbell, 65, 66
Superheated Steam and Reheaters, Mr. Lionel S. Marks, 29
“ Tests of Locomotives,” Papers on, by Mr. E. A. Hitchcock, Prof. W. F. M. Goss, and Mr. G. J. Churchward, 66
Turbine, The Curtis Steam, W. L. R. Emmett, 3 The De Laval Steam, Messrs. B. S.
Lea and E. M-eden, 3
Different Applications of Steam, Prof. A. Rateau, 3
Scientific Investigation into the Possibilities of the Gas, Mr. Nielson, 414, 422, 429, (.503)
Work, some Theoretical and Practical Considerations in Steam, Mr. Francis Hodgkinson, 3
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The American:
Water-tube Boilers, Priming and Biffle Plates, Mr. A. Bement, 547

Institution of Mining Engineers:

Fifteenth Annual Meeting, Papers to be Read, (252)
Institution of Mining* and Metallurgy :
Equipment of Laboratories for Advanced Teaching and Research in the Mineral Industries, 91
Tenth Ordinary Meeting of the Thirteenth Session, Papers to be Discussed, 66
Institution, National Lifeboat:
Number of Lifeboats, Rewards Granted during Past Year, (108)
Institution of Sanitary Engineers:
Meetings Announced, (22)

INVENTORS and Patents, Decision of the United States Commissioner of Patents, (646)

Iron:

Alloys of, 248
Beds Owned by the United States Steel Corporation, (134)
“ Best Yorkshire,” Medal Awarded at the St. Louis Exhibition, to the Farnley Iron Company, (445)
Carlton, (191)
Cast Iron Composition, Strength, and Specifications, Mr. W. J. Keep on, 66
Dry Air Blast to the Manufacture of Iron, Application of, 428, (499), 505
Economic Value of Cast, Mr. W. H. Pretty cn, (605), (646)
Effect of Alloying, with Another Element, (597) Founders, Professor Wlist’s Scheme for the Education of, (61)
German Exports, August, (370) Hardening, New Process for, (85)
Maximum of Phosphorus Secured in Combination with, (571)
Ore, Brazil, Export Possible at a Profit, (419) in California, Largo Deposits of, (11) Chromic, Cuba, (167)
Deposits in Russia, Enormous, (205) Export Trade, Swedish Steamship Owners’ Memorial to the Government Relative to the, (205)
Mining Industry, Sweden, (276) Production, United States, (276) and the United Kingdom, 185
Pig, Estimated Make of, for Half-year, (35) Production of, during Inst Three Years, in the Leading Countries of the World, (21)
Production, United States, Nine Months, (445)
Pipes with Asphaltum, Protection of, (230) Prices and Quantities of Manufactured, Official Returns for July-August, (333)
and Steel Exports during October from North of England, Customs Returns, (498) Output in Chicago, (61) Output in United States, 231 Trades, The Tariff Commission .and the {see pages 289, 293, Vol. XCVHI.), (85)
in the United States during 1903, Statistics of the Production of, (593)
Works, Monterey, Mexico, (419)
Thermal and Electric Conductivities of, when Alloyed with another Element, (597)
Tons of Steel Produced for Every 100 Tons of Pig, (323)
Trade, Manufactured, September and October, Returns, (555)
Warrants, 90
Wire Rheostat, Water-cooled, Used by Mr. Weber, Nancy Central Station, (111)

IRELAND, Public Works in, 544
Irrigation Scheme for Thessaly, (646)
Sir Hanbury Brown on, 537 Nile, 243, 267, 289, 318, 337, 352, 401 Projects in Egypt and the Soudan, 152 of the Island of Coringa, (182)
Ivory Coast, Gold Mines, Canal, Railway, (621)

JAFFA, Opening for Agricultural Implements and Machinery, (134)
Jaffa, Petroleum Engines for Pumping Water from Wells, (134)
James, Mr. Stanley, (201)
Japan, Arable Land in, (253)
Japan, Industrial Progress of. 201
Japanese Manipulation of Tools in the Handicrafts, (276)
Jameson, Mr. John, (64)
Johannesburg, Sewerage and Electric Lighting, (217)
Johannesburg, Valuation of the Town, (430)

KAY, John, Commemoration of his Bicentenary, (85) _
Kelbam Rolling Mills Company, Limited, Annual Meeting, (21)
Kelvin, Lord. His Installation as Chancellor of Glasgow University, 554
Kerosene for Inland Consumption in Russia, Question of the Tax on, (111)
Kerr, C. V,, on the Potential Efficiency of Prime Movers, 68
Kerr, Mr. Walter C., The Point of View, 653
Kirkhouse, Mr., 233
Kitson. Sir James, Jubilee Celebration, (345) Kleen Dust CcKector, The, 117

Labour Questions, Strikes, and Disputes: Wages

American Federation of Labour, Exclusion of Japanese from America, (521)
Board of Trade’s Annual Report for 1903, (11), (35) '
Board of Trade on the State of the Labour Market in September, 393
British Motor Car Industry, Hands Employed in, (597)
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, Report showing Scarcity of Hands Issued by, (182) Eight Hours Day, 475
Eight Hours Day in the United States, 45 Female Hands Employed by the Chicago Steel Manufacturing Company, (471)
Imperial Shipbuilding Yard at Kiel, Wholesale Dismissal of Workmen from, (202)
Krupp Works, Number of Persons Employed, 2/3
Labour and Prosperity, 185
Labour and Trade, 395
Miners’ Wages in Yorkshire, 15
Moulder, Conciliation and the, 574
Moulders’ Unions, The Premium System and the, 599
National Founders’ Association, Principal Clauses of the Announcement Made at the Meeting, 579
Patent Rights of Employers and Workmen, 315
Premium System, The, (263), 301, (309)
Premium System and the Foundry, 599
South Wales and Monmouthshire Iron and Steel Workers, Mechanics, &c,. Meeting at Abergavenny ,Wages to be Reduced, (35)
Status of the Mechanic in the United States. 366
Steel Trade Struggle, 373
Strike, Boiler Shops, Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, (264), (333), (356)
Messrs. R. Craggs and Sons’ Shipyard, (21)
Harland and Wolff’s Shipbuilding Yard, (345)
William Jessop and Sons, Limited, (405) at Marseilles, Maritime, 325, (370) Monmouthshire Colliers, (205)
South Staffordshire and North Worcestershire Rivet and Bolt Trade, ended, (182)
Syndicate, a World-wide Steel, 600
Wages, Coal Miners’, 208
Dispute in the Shipbuilding Trade on North-East Coast, (534), (546), (555),
London, 371
United States in 1903, (370) Reduction, Scottish Miners’, (85) ? Reduction, South Wales and Monmouthshire, (35)
of the South Wales Colliers, No Alteration in, (134)

LABOUR and Prosperity, 185
Lampblack as Fuel, Use of, (323)
Land in London, Plots of. Attempt to Let by Auction, (85)
Lathe, Sin. Capstan, Tangye Tool and Electric Company, Limited, 630
Lathes, See also Supplement^ November 1904

Launches and Trial Trips:

20, 46, 74, 94, 138, 193, 219, 241, 265, 284, 307, 332, 357, 380, 453, 504, 525, 554, 632

LAUNDRY at Guy’s Hospital, 465
Laws, Mr. W. G., (650)
Lead Output, 1903, Spain’s, (253)

Leaders:

American Pumping Engines, 448
Ball Bearings, 14
Belgian Steel Works, Position of, 548
Boiler Explosion in Paris, 38, 63
Boiler Explosion, A Remarkable, 391
Boilers for the Navy, 159
British Association Reform, 256
British Plate Convention, A, 422
British Railways, Working of, 232
Canada and Damping. 38
Conciliation and the Moulder, 574
Consulting Engineers and our Export Trade. 278 ’
Derailments, 371
Dry Air in the Blast Furnace, 499, (532) Education of the Mining Engineer, 90 Efficiency of Heat Engines, 348
Electric Main Line Railways, 600
Electric Railways, High-speed, 136
Electric Tramways in London, 501
Electricity in Factories, Use of, 500
Engine Failures, 207
Engineers in the United States Navy, 647 Explosion of Gaseous Mixtures, 87 Explosion in Paris, Boiler, 38, 63 Farmers, Railways and Motor Vans, 372 French Marine, The, 524
French Naval Reform, 393
Gas Turbines, 422.
German Coal Mines, Nationalisation of, 184
German Steel Syndicate Troubles, 114
H.M.S. Terrible, 524
Impact Tests, (517), 523
Iron and Steel in the United States, 231 Japan’s Sea Power, 302
Labour and Trade, 395
Live Rail, The,421.
Live Rails, Protection of, 207
Live Steam Feed-water Heating, 184
Locomotive Derailments, Tank, 624
Locomotive Explosion in Paris, 397
London Wages, 371
Maritime Strike at Marseilles, 325
Motor Cars and the Public, 278
Municipal Expenditure, 474
Nozzles and Fans, 548
Pounds and Pennies, 6-1
Premium System, The, 301
Premium System and the Foundry, The, 599
Priming and Baffle Plates, 547
Rail Convention, International, 396
Rail Motor Cars, 160
Railway Accidents, 573
Railway Passenger v. Goods Traffic, 208 Resistance of Air to Trains, 303 Royal Agricultural Society, The, 347 Shipbuilding in Germany, 63, 448 Speed in Warships, The Value of, 114 Steam Boiler Energy, 13
Power Economics, 135
Traction on Common Roads, 447
Trials of Modern Warships, 473 Turbines, 474
Superheated Steam and Leakage, 118
Surface Contact Tramways, 326
Steel, 255, 623
Bridge Syndicate io Germany, 256 in England, Foreign, 14 Initial Stress in, 277 Model Tests for, 648 Structure of High-speed, 90 Syndicate Troubles, German, 114 Syndicate, A World-wide, 600 Trade Struggle, The, 373 Tank Engine Derailments, 624 Tariff Commission, The, 89 Thames Steamboats, 423 Theory of Alatter, The New, 183 Trade and Science, 160 Tramways, Running Po.wers over, 38 Valves and Valve Gear, 500, (632) Welsh Coal, 325

Sub-Leaders:

American Shipbuilding, 232
America and Industrial Alcohol, 61
Armour Plates, American, 133 Attempt to Wreck the Connecticut, 423 Belgian, Locomotive Construction, 161 Boiler Explosion in Paris, 38 Bridge, Renewing a Railway, 64
British Westinghouse Company, Limited, 575 Coal Contracts, Railway, 624
Chamois, Loss of the, 326
Coalminers’ Wages, 208
Coal, Welsh, 257
Commander Peary’s New Vessel, 423
Copper, 348
Corrosion, A Curious Case of, 115
Croton Dam, The, 209
Draught of Moving Steamers, 209
Dumping, 279
Dynamics of a Ship Launch, 449
Eight Hours’ Day, The, 475
Electric Railway Coaches, 649
Electric Railway, A Single-phase, 257 Engineering Progress, 475
Engineers and Iron, 549
High-speed Cutting, 624
India, The Future of, 449
Iron Ore and the United Kingdom, 185
Iron Warrants, 90
Labour and Prosperity, 185
Lake Steamships, 475
Liverpool and Southport Railway, The, 184 London County Council Estimates, 624 Miners’ Wages in Yorkshire, 14 Municipal Monopolies in Paris, 501
SpeoiHcation, A, 91 Trading Accounts, 14
Oil Fuel Burners, 549
Panama Canal, The, 348
Patents, A Curiosity in, 232
Pneumatic Tools, 209
Railway Coal Contracts, The, 601
Railways, Careless Working on, 648
Rights of Property in Drawings, 601
Shipbuilding, American, 232
Shipbuilding, British and Foreign, 39
Standards for Electrical Machinery, 185 Steelmaking in the United States, 549 Steel Rails in Canada, 232
Sulphur, in Illuminating Gas, 161
Tramway Companies and Roadway Repairs, 91
Water Supply of New York, The, 115
Workmen’s Trains, 525
Workshops at Sea, 601

LEAN, Mr. Joel, 168

Leeds, New Hospitals at, (368), 406
Leeds University, Financial Requirements, (597)

Legal Intelligence:

Baxter, Limited, H., i>, Mr. H. 11. Marsden, (445)
Estler Brothers v, J. Tylor and Sons, Limited, 601
Pearson v. Great Western Railway Company, 120
Pilkington, Limited, u. B. and S. Massey, 163 Secretary of State for War v, John Murray, (111)
Vail, Mr. T. L. Harding, 19

LEGAL Obligations of a Contractor, The, 173 Letter Weight, Callender’s Cable, 30

Letters to the Editor :

Acetylene Gas Engines, Alf. DougiU and Co., Limited, 651 ; Frank Eames, £03
Wheels, Alp, £32, 629, John I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited,
Air Ejectors, W. A. Granger, 551 Injectors, Inquirer, 532 Pump Efficiency, Henry Milne, 479 Pumps, Sykes Benn, 252, 352; D. A
Bremner, 280. 437 ; A. C. P., 280. ‘676 ; J. E. Weyman. 375
Australian Patents, Collison and Co., 330
^'co^^427 Marks. Edward Evans and
® Moncrfeff7i9“‘'““ Scott-
Ball Bearings, The Heilman Manufacturing •D L-mited, 93 ; Thos. W. How 43
Barrel Truck, John F. Elsworth, 93 Belts, Care and Usage of, Edwin Haviland, 92 ® ®i’5®r;atory. Disestablishment of,
W. W. Black, 679 ’
Boiler Cov^enngs, Silvanus P. Thompson, (110), Explosion, The Paris, E. J., 93 Nielausse, H. P., 651; c. H, S., 93- p Bassett, 93; Ered Hovenden, 93
Bailers, Ciroulation in. I. P. D., 187; Donald H. Lea, 235 for the Navy, Nauticus, 186 Water-tube and Reducing Valves,
• II. Bailey, 352 Bleacher’s, Engineer, 280; Millowners, 252, 331’ ^80; Roy les „ R T 1 ” P S-> 307 ; X., 280
British Goods Made in Germany, X. Y. Z,,
Cable Groynes, R. G. Allanson Winn, 427
Centenarian Railway Advertisement, W. IJ.
a®'’ oof Bxport Trade, A neers'flSe^’^^’’’ ’ ^^""^^cturing Engi-
Compression Tests, J. S. Wicksteed, 235 ' Corrosion, Curious Case of, J. S. V. Bickford,
Creeping of Rails, R., 43
^5^-^'629 Purnace, Philip Parsons,
Efficiency of a Suction Gas Plant, Crossley
Bros., Limited, 532
E'ootrolytic Methods of Treating Tin Scrap, Batchelor and Co., Limited, 131
* Enterpris’s in Canada, The
Western Outlook, 70
Engineers’ Speci 6 cations, M.T.M.E., 453
Engines, High-speed Internal Combustion, E. Hops, 235 ’
Bumping, Hathorn, Davey and Co.,
Feed-water Heating, Beschwood. 213
Iriotional Losses in Steam Turbines, R M Neilson, 331
Fenders for Motor Cars. Fred. T. Jane, 70
Girders, Plate Web-see Plate Web Girders
He.at Insulating Media, Relative Efficiency o
Lionel Cresswell, 43
Navalis, Q’ Berplexed, 532, 579, 629 ; Son
£79^ 628? Tifiy
579 : Beechwoed, 629; w. Rider, 605 ; R. Sproule, 605
Induced Draught,'Philip Parsons, 629 Locomotives, High-speed, A Locomotive Fireman, 19
Locomotives, Derailment of Tank, C. E. Stretton, 605, 651
Locomotives on the Pennsylvania Railway, Performance of Express, E. L. Coster, 212
Manchester Sewage Disposal, Geo. F. Walter (130), 213
Manufacturers’ Representatives, Contractor,
Minors, Air-cooled, Progress of the, Chas. W, Dixon, 352 ; F. W. Lanohester, 375
Motors. Air-cooled, and Big Castings. F. Strickland. 401
Motor Car Speeds, J. S. V. Bickford, 330 ; Goo. M. Seabroke, 330
Fenders for, Fred. T. Jane. 70 Length of. A, 606 and the Public, John Henry Knight. 307; Wm. M. Rose, 307
Vehicles, Avellana, 19; A., 19; A. V. Roe, 19
Nile Irrigation, W. Willcocks, 352, 401 Patent Laws, New, T. Jensen, 629
Pelton Wheels, J. Dawson. 213 ; Geo. T. Par- 213, 252; W.H.T.. 187, (213),
235 ; A. Vane, 252 '
Plate Web Girders, J. D., 306 ; Walter H.
Dickenson, 331 ; A Journeyroan Draughts- man, 306 ; W. E. Lilly, 306 ; Midland Engineering Bureau, 331 ; J. R. Porter. 352 ; J. F. Robertson, 401 ; J. Kenneth Sargent, 401; S Stansfield, 375; W. H. Thorpe, 306; U.S.A., 306 ; X.Y., 375; The Writer, 331
Postal Regulations, Victim, 401
Protection of the Live Rail, M. Inst. C.E., 235 Railway, 307
Pumping Acid Water, Australia, 331
Pumping Machinery, Cardiff Docks. Gwynnes
Limited. 606
Pumps. Air—see Air Pumps
Rail Motor Carriages. Experienced, 307 : A.
Morris Bushell. 307
Railway Accidents. Clement E. Stretton. 605. 651
Motor Cars. E. W. Walker. 187
Motor Coaches, Old, C. W. V., 187 and Tramway Competition, W. V. B., 352
Reaction in a Diverging Nozzle, R. M. Neilson, (see 503), 532, 579, 629 ; Tester, 551, 6G6
Resistance of Air to Trains, R. S. K., 331
Screw Propellers, Arthur Rigg, 186
Screw Propulsion. Problem of, A. E. Berriman,
Secret Commissions, Fair Trade, 131
Shears, Circular. Joseph Rhodes and Sons. Limited, 353
Signals at Waterloo Station, Defective, Semaphore, 186
Standardised Water Fittings, Londoner, 651
Letters to the Editor (continued):
Steam Cost Appropriation, Vapor, (453) Engines, Power of, A. W. Brightmore, 70
Pipe Coverings, Silvanus P. Thompson, 70, 131
Traction on Common .Roads, W. Fletcher, 479 ; James Robinson, 479
Pipe Coverings, Sam. H. Davies, 110. (131)
Production, Cheap, E. Bennis and Co., 651 ; Easton and Anderson, 651 ; C. D. Leng. 629
Turbines, Tester, 503, (532)
Steel Failure, A Mysterious,-Boilermaker, 306 ; Glasgow, 303 ; J. E. Stead, 206 (High-speed) Twist Drills and Milling Cutters, Cammoll, Laird and Co,, Limited, 110
Initial Stress in, Dunelm, 331 ; Senex, 331
Vanadium, Aug. F. Wiener, 18, 235
Storage Batteries, R. E. Crompton, 479
Summer Train Services, C. Rous-Marten, 187; Clement E. Stretton, 131
Tank Engine Derailments, Croxted, Clement E. Stretton, 651
Thames Passenger Steamers, Proposed, Loftus Patton Perkin a, 579
Thermodynamic Problem, A, J. J., 651
Torpedoes in Action,Refisx, 306
Trade Expenditure, Supervision and Control of, A. Morris Bushell, 110
Tunnelling through Water-bearing Strata, B., 43
Turbino Efficiency, Student, 187; Robert H. Smith, 235 ; R. M. Neilson, 252
Turbines, J. A. S., 19
Turning Record, One Interested, 628
Valves and Valve Gear, W. T. Bell, (500), 532 Vanadium Steel, Aug. F. Wiener, 18, 235 Water Circulation in Boilers, H. Coke Powel, 110
Water Power in South Africa, Pioneer, 453

Letters from our own Correspondents

LIFTS, Passenger, Mr.T, E. Brown on, 537
Lifts, Sewage, at Douglas, 116
Lighthouse Engineering, Mr. T. Matthews, M. Ribibre, and Lieut.-Col. Lockwood on, 487
on Hyskior Rock, Western Scotland, (35)
at St. Catherine’s Point, The New, (597)
on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, (323)
Lighting Standards, 549
Linslade, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, (182) Liquid Air, Commercial Possibilities of, 612

Literature: N.B.—Figures in brackets refer to Books Received and Short Notices.

Abitazioni Popolari, Ls (Case Operari), Effren Magrini, (229)
All the World’s Fighting Ships, Fred, T. Jane, (204), 392 ?
American Institution of Architects, Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh, Glenn Brown, (539)
Architects’ and Builders’ Pocket-book, The, Frank E. Kidder, (363)
Assuan Reservoir and Lake Mosris, Sir Wm. Willcocks, (204)
Astronomy, Fireside, D. W. Horner, (410)
Automobil und Motorboot Industrie, Jahrbuch der, Emst-Newberg, (204)
Baltimore Conflagration, Record of, Edwin 0. Sachs, (539)
Berochnung Elektrischer Leitungsuetze in Theorie und Praxis, Josof Herzog und C. Feldmann, (449)
Bdton et au Cement Arm^, Traits, Thdorique et Pratique de la Resistance des Materiaux Appliquee au, M. de Tedesco and A. Maurel, (164)
Billiards Mechanically Treated, G. W, Hemming, (494)
Bridge Construction, Types and Details of, Frank W. Skinner, (229), 288
British Sewage Works, M, N. Baker, (410)
Biitfsh Standard Sec) ions, Properties of, Published^by Crosby, Lockwood and Co,, 136
Cambridge Physical Series—Mechanics, John Cox, 196
Centrifugal Pumps, Turbines, and Water Motors, Chas. H. Innes, (229), (293)
Chemical Ensiineeriog, Hand-book of, G. E, Davis, (539)
Clyde Passenger Steamer, The, Capt, Jas. Williamson, (164), 193, (363)
Coal Mining and the Coal Trade, Annals of, R. L. Galloway, (539)
Coal Mining, Practical. (349)
Colliery Manager’s Hand-book, The, Caleb Pamely, (363)
Commercial German in Two Parts, Hein and Becker, (363)
Concrete, Reinforced, Buel and Hill, (363), 392; Charles F. Marsh, (362), 637
Customers’ Guide to Banking, Henry Warren, (229)
Cowlyd Waterworks, T. B. Farrington, (293)
Dampfturbinen Entwieklung Systeme Bau und Verwendung, Wilhelm Gentsch, (494)
Decirnal Coinage and the Metric System of Weights and Measures, Inquiry into and Explanations of, Edwyn Anthony, (181)
Destructors (Small) for Institutional and Trade Waste, W. Francis Goodrich, (392)
Docks, Wharves, &c., on the Thames, Particulars of Dry and Wet, Chas. H. Jordan, (293)
Drapers’ Company Research Memoirs, Technical, Series II., L. W. Atcherley, (392)
Duncan’s Manual of Tramways, Omnibuses, and Electric Railways, T. J. Whiting and Co., (229)
Dorham College of Science, N‘ewcastle-on-Tyne, Published by A, Reid and Co., (268)
Eirth Dams : A Study, by Burr Bassoil, (449)
Earth and Moon, Comparison of the Features of the, N, H, Shaler, (164)
Eisenbahnwesens in Technischer Beziehung, Organ iur die Fortschritte des, C. W. Krisdel, Verlag, (363)
Electrical Engineers’ Year-book and Directory of Light, Power, and Traction Stations, 1905, Fowler’s, (539)
Electrical Machinery, The Diseases of. Ernst Schulz, (204)
Electric Flashes, or the System of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, A. T. M. Johnson, (164)
Furnace, Henri Moissan (translated from the French), 449
Furnaces and their Industrial Application, J. Wright, (363)
Lighting, Private House, F. H. Taylor, (627)
Lighting and Traction Works, Directory and Statistics of, C. S. Vesev Brown, (539)
Motors, Continuous-Current Motors and Induction Motors : Their Theory and Construction, H. M. Hobart, (164)
Practice, Modern, Edited by Magnus Maclean, (15); Vol. HI., (363)
Tramways and Light Railways, Management of, Wm. R. Bowker, (15)
Electricity in the Service of Man, R. M. Walmsley, (449)
Elek'trieiiats Lehre, Einleitung in die Theore- tische, Dr. Ignaz Vallentin, (494)
Elektrische Bogenlicht Das, Seine Entwicklung und Seine Physikalischen Grundlagen, Walther Biegon von Czudncchowski, (65)
Elementary Questions and Answers, Albert E. Bittie, (410)
Encyclopedia of Trade between the United States of America and France. G. Hanotaux, (494) ’
Engineering Standards Committee, The. Interim Reports, (229)
Engineering Telegraph CodeBook, A. H. Blackburn and Jas. Stevens, (293)
Engines, 04, Design and Construction of, A. H Goldingham, (164)
Engines and Power Generators, Modern, Rankin Kennedy, (204)
Factory Manager and Accountant, The, Horace Lucian Arnold, 65
Fine and Graphic Arts, Subject List of Works on the, in the Patent Office Library, (637) Flottes de Combat en 1904, Les, by Commandant le Marquis de Balincourt, 539
Forest Engineering for India, Manual of, Chas. Gilbert Rogers, in Three Vols., (15)
Forge Practice, Elementary, John Lord Bacon, (392)
French Reader for Science Students, Lectures Scientifiques, (392)
Gas Works Directory and Statistics, 1904, (164) German Working Claes in the Last Quarter'of a Century, Progress of, W. J. Ashley, (627)
Handbook of Stations on the Railways of the United Kingdom, (197)
Hebezeuge Die, Ein Handbueh fur Entwurf Construktion und Gewichtsbestimmung. Hugo Bethmann, (197)
Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic Machinerv,
Prof. H, Robinson, (164), (293) i
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, Vol I XXX., (268)
Electrical Engineers, Journal of the, Geo. C. Lloyd, (229)
Engineers, The Junior, Record of Transactions, Vol. xiii.. Edited by W. T. Dunn, (65)
Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions of the. Vol. xi., Parts I. and II., (164)
Iron and Steel Institute, Journal of the, Edited by Bennett Brough, (268)
Light, Analytical Theory of, Jas. Walker. (494)
Liverpool Engineering Society, Transactions of the, R. C. F. Annett, (229)
Loci in Mechanical Drawing, Alex. MacLav (164), (293)
Locks and Builders’ Hardware, Henry R. Towne (591) '
Locomotive Operation, G. R. Henderson (539)
Lokomotive Die, lllustrierte Monats Fach- Eisenbahn Techniker, Wien, (181)
London County Council School of Photo Engraving and Lithography, Prospectus and Timetable for 1904-5, (293)
Machines and Tools Employed in the Working of Sheet Metals, R. B. Hodgson, (363)
Magnetism, W. Hibbert, (164)
Marine Engineering, Text-book of, Engineer Commander A. E. Tompkins, 410
MaFchinenbau, Hilfsbuchlur den, Er. Freytag, (15), 65
Mathematics, Preliminary Practical, S. G. Starling, (204)
Matriculation Directory, The Calendar, 1903-4, (164)
Mechanical Drawing, Elements of, Alpha Pierce Jamieson, (392)
Mechanical World Pocket and Year-book for 1905, (449)
Mechanics, Elementary Manual on Applied, Andrew Jameson, (392)
Michigan College of Mines, 1903-4, Year-book of,(293)
Mid-Tyne Link, Edited by A. G, Hood, (65), (449)
Metal Working, Paul W. Hasluck, (539)
Metric Fallacy, The, by Fred, A. Halsey ; and The Metric Failure in the Textile Industry, by Sam. S. Dale, 590
Motors and Motor Driving, Alfred Harmsworth, 136, (164)
Nauticus, Jahrbuch fur Deutschland’s, See- Interessen, E. S. Mittler u. Sohn, (65), 196
Naval Pocket-book, The, Sir W. Laird (ylowes, (65)
New Streets, Laying out and Making up, A. Taylor Allen, (449)
Northampton Institute (City Polytechnic), E.C., Announcements, Educational and Social for the Session 1904-5, (293)
Our Navy for a Thousand Years, Capt, Sir S. Eirdley-Wilmot, (181)
Oil Fields of Russia and the Russian Petroleum Industry, A. Beeby Thompson, 115
Paint and Varnish, Industrial and Artistic Technology of, (363)
Patents, 1903, Annual Report of the Commissioners of Washington, (539)
Petrol Motor, How to Build a, Jas. F. Gill, , (591) „
Physical Science, Recent Development of, Wm, Cecil Dampier Whetham, (204). 293
Pioneer Irrigation and L’ght Railways, E. 0. Mawson and E. R. Calthrop, (65), (293), Plate Girders, Design of, W. E. Lilley, (539) Pocket-book of Useful Formula and Memoranda for Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Sir G. L. Molesworth and H. B. Moleswortb, (65)
Political Economy, National System of, Fred. List, (637)
Portland Cement, A. C. Davis, (293)
Portland Cement for Users, D. B. Butler, (539) Practical Engineers’ Pocket-book, 1905, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Limited, (539)
Engineers’ Pocket-book, 1905, The Technical Publishing Company, Limited, (539)
Science, Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Heat, J. H. Leonard and W. H. Salmon, (494)
Proell’s Rechentafel fiir Dampf-turbinen, Julius Springer, Berlin, (268)
Purification of Sewage, Sydney Barwise, (181) Railway Maximum Rates and Charges, M. B. Cotsworth, (15)
Railway Officials, Universal Directory of, 1904, S. R. Blundstone, (164)
Railway Sienalling, Mechanical, H. Raynor Wilson, (539)
Ratepayers’ Guide, H. Goddard, (349)
Ready Reference Tables, Vol. I., Conversion Factors of Every Unit or Measure in use, Carl Hering, (164), (293)
Resistenza dei Material!, Pietro Gallizia, (229) River, Road, and Rail, Francis Fox, (539) Royal Navy List, Lieut.-Col. Francis Lean, (164)
St. Louis International Exhibition, 1904, Department C, Liberal Arts, Catalogue of British Exhibits classified under Group 23, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Arts, Issued by the Royal Commission, (65)
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Apparatus, S. H. Adams, (449)
Smoke Prevention and Fuel Economy, Booth and Kershaw, (363)
Spanish-English Dictionary of Mining Terms. Fred. Lucas, (293) ’
Specifications in Detail, Frank W. Macey, (164)
Steam, First Stage, J. W. Haywood, (164) Steam and the Steam Engine, Elementary Manual on, Andrew Jamieson, (65), (449) Steel Concrete, Notes on, Major J. Winn, (65) Surveying, Practical, Geo. Wm. Usill, (392) Tariff History, Modern Germany, United States, France, Percy Ashley, (494) Technical Subjects, Untechnical Addresses on Jas. Douglas, (539) ’
Technische Huffsmittel zur Befbrderung und Lagerungin Sammelkorpern (Massengiiteml M. Buhle II. Theil, (15), 136
Technische Untersuchungsmethoden zur Be- triebskontrolle, Julius Brand, 410, (449)
Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts, Smithsonian Inst., (164) Telephone Service, Past, Present and Future Herbert Laws Webb, (181) ’
Teubner’s Sammlung von Lehrbiicher auf dem Gebiete der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Band XT., A. G. Webster, (539) ’
Thomason Engineering College, Roorkee. Handbook of, (293)
Timbers of Commerce and their Identification Herbert Stone, (229), (363) ’
Turbine a Vapore ed a Ga?, Guiseppe Belluzzo 494 ’
Turbinen, Dampf, Entwickelung, Systeme, Bau u. Verisendung, Wilhelm Gentsch, 566
Turbines, Model Steam, H. H. Harrison, (539) United States Naval Institute, Proceedings of P. R. Alger, (204) ’
University College, Bristol, Calendar for Session 1904-1905.(268)
University College of London, Calendar Session 1904-5, (363)
Warships, Edw. L. Attwood, (181)
Warships, Text-book on the Construction, Protection, Stability, Turning, &c., of War Vessels, Edw. L. Attwood, 362
Work and Wages, Sydney A. Chapman, (449) * World's Work and Play, The, Henry Norman, (229)

LITTLE, Mr. Christopher James, (303)
Live Steam ” Feed-water Heating, 184
Liverpool, Commercial Museum and Bureau of Scientific Information, Proposed, {^^7}
Liverpool University, 129
Log Band Saw, Horizontal, Messrs. A. Ransome and Co., 273, 398
London County Council Estimates, 624
Improved Regulations as to Haulage in London by Traction Engines, (323)
Report as to the Valuation in Force on April 6th,(597)
Longridge, Michael, on Gas, Oil, and Steam for Power, 377, 403
Loom, Hattersley Automatic, 31
Lowestoft and the Necessity of Foreshore Protection, (370)
Lubrication, Axiom System of, 162
Luca] Oil Fuel Burner, The, 330
Lumber Carried by a Log Raft to Sau Francisco, (253)

McCLEAN, Mr. Frank, 478
McDonald, Mr, John Allen, (625)

Machine Tools:

Boring Machines for the United States, James Spencer and Co.,(20)
Boring Mill, SOin. Double, Webster and Bennett, 320, 321 .
Drilling Machine, Sensitive, Messrs. Spong and Co.. 350
Slot, Mr. Sharp, 52 1840, Nasmyth’s, 52
Milling, and Boring (Horizontal), Messrs. Ward, Haggas and Co., 645 File-cutting, German, (345) Hammer, Nasmyth, 1 Hammer, Sykes, 2
Lathe Carrier, “ Saltley,” 551 Electrically-driven, Hulse and Co. {Supplement, NGvember 4th, 1904), 582
High-speed (Supplement, yoveniber 4th, 1904), 582
(S^in.) High-speed Capstan, Tangye Tool and Electric Company, Limited, 630 (lOin.) High-speed, Parkinson’s, 442 (12iin.) High-speed, Miley’s Machine Tool Company, 442, 443
(28in.) High-speed, Dean, Smith and
Grace, 444
Tool Dynamometer, Experiments with a, Mr. J. T. Nicholson on, (66)
Treble-geared High-speed, G. Wilkinson and Sons, 645
Market for, in Moscow, (35)
Milling Cams, Machine for, Jas. Spencer and Co., (20)
Painting Machine, Wallach Bros., 304
Planing and Glass-papering Machine, John Pickles and Son, 166
Planing Machine with Cushioned Drive, Messrs. Smith and Coventry, 304
Pneumatic Tools, 209
Saw, Horizontal Log Band, Messrs, A. Ransome and Co., 273, 398
Saw, Multiple Band, Mr, Erskine Muirhead, 366
Shears, Circular, Messrs. Hulse and Co., Limited, 322
Some Early (Supplement, November No. v,, i.; No. vl., 62
Steam Excavator, Mr. A. W. Robinson, 350 Tool Grinder, 504
Woodworker, The Wadkin, 502, 503

MACHINERY Imported into Russia nJ Windau, 1903, Value of, (299)
Magnesium Wire Flame or Acetylene Light, Use of, for Distinguishing Iron and Copper Pyrites, (182)
Magnetic Alloys from Non-magnetic Metals, Production of, (445)
Induction, Apparatus for Ascertaining Effect of Pressure on, (345)
Observatory, Dumfriesshire, (111) Manufacturers’ Representatives, 375 Manufacturing Plant, Value of the Chemist and Metallurgist to a, by Mr. H. C. Loudenbeck, 43
Map of Navigable Canals and Steamer Routes in Bengal, 640
Maps of the Nile, 243, 268, 289
Railway and Tramway System on Tyneside, 261
Marey, Professor, 19
Margarine instead of Russian Tallow to be Used on Launching New Ships, (445)
' Marsh Bros, and Co., Messrs., Celebrate the 250Lh Anniversary of their Establishment, (355)
Master Cutler, Mr. Geo. Hall Installed, (356), His Guests at a Sheffield Works, 376
Matter, The New Theory of, Mr. Balfour, 183, 185, 189
Mechanic in the United States, Status of the, 366
Mechanism of Combustion, Professor H. B. Dixon on the, 37
Metal Industry in Christiania, (182)
Production of British Columbia, Six
Month.?’, (157)
Hardness of, Professor Turner on, (583) under Pressure, Increase and Diminuticn cf Density of some, (111)
Metallic Surfaces, Protection of, Mr. H. Brandon on, 391
Metallurgical Smelting House, Birmingham University, (263)
Metallurgy, The Beginnings of, (445)
Metric System, The, 380
Metric System and the Ordnance Survey, The, 96
Mexican Currency Law, Bill for the Reform of, (546)
Micrometers, New System of, M. G, Millschau 03, (445)
Middlesbroogh, Freedom of the Borough to be Conferred on Mr. A. J. Dorman, (365)
Milk-drying Machine, The Just-Haim'iker, 16 Milk, Sterilisation of, in Buenos Ayres, (253) Mill,” The “ Chinese ” and the “ Tube, (285) Mills, Flour, Worked with Petroleum, in Damascus, (276)
Wills, Tube, in the Transvaal, 216
Milner’s Speed Indicator, 551
Mineral Prcduction, 1903, Indian, 380
Products ot South Wales, 1902, 1903, Value of, (157)
Statistics, Our, 570
Miners’ Wages in Yorkshire, 15
Mining and the Inventor, South African, 322, 352
Machinery, Electric, (386)
Machinery, Messrs. Heenan and Froude, for the De Baers Company, (216)
Matters, South Africa, (582)
and Metallurgy in Scandinavia, Notes cn,308
News, Sinking done at the Klienfontein Shaft in the Transvaal in Five Months, (35)
News, Sinking done at the Waihi Gold Mine, in New Zealand, (35)
Schools in Prussia, Reorganisation of, (419)
in South Africa, (216), (430) Statistics, Colonial and Foreign, 125

Motors:

Air-cooled, 326, 352, 375, 401
Electric, used in the Olympia Cotton Mills, Columbia, (346)
Electric Motors in Factories, Rules for, 115 Horse-power Competition for Petrol, Capt. C. C. Longridge, 340
Internal Combustion, Mr. D. Clerk on Flame Temperatures in, 210
Petroleum, on Swedish Fishing Boats, (419) Petroleum, on Thames Launches, (419)
Speed Controller for, American Electric and Controller Company of New York, 627

Motor Vehicles and Matters Connected therewith:

American Car and Foundry Company, New Establishment at Trafford Park, (571)
Armoured Motor Tractor, Messrs, CammelJ, Laird and Co., 542
Autocycle Club, 1000 Mile Trials of Motor Cycles, (205)
Automobile Club, Map showing Routes for Small CarTrials, (134), 261
Motor Boat Reliability Trials, (571)
Prince of Wales Vice-patron of, (646)
Race for Tourist Cars Next Year, (671)
Trials of Small Cars, (205), (233)
of France, Cross-Channel Boat Race Organised by the, (157)
Automobile Mutual Protection Association, Meeting of Council, (253) !
Automobile Service between Sukhim and NovorQssiisk to be undertaken by Private Enterprise, (419)
Automobiles Exported from France, Value of, (621)
Automobilism, Costs of Electric, R. H. Smith on, 314
Bill to make Owners as well as Drivers Responsible for Accidents, in Germany, (521)
Boat Races, 61, 120,131, 157, (299), (323), (345), (393). (471). (498). (697). (621)
Boats, Reliability Trials for, 166
British Motor Car Industry, Hands Employed in,(597)
British Motor Fittings, Tires, &c.,Demand for, in Rome, (157)
Cars Belonging to the Motor Volunteer Corps, Intimation from the War-office Respecting the, (134)
and Cycles Registered on April 1 in the United Kingdom, (253) ; up to June, 1904, 11
in Use in France, 1903, (299) in Use in the United Kingdom, Number of, (134) for Ceylon, (578)
Chemical Fire Engine, The Wolseley, (296) Clarkson’s, Limited, Steam Omnibus for London, (323), 344
Compensation for Wear and Tear of, Allowed to Army Officers Using (heir Own on Public Service, (253)
Costs of Electric Automobilism, R. H. Smith ' on,314
Demand in Calcutta for Motor Cars, (419) Driving Wheels, The New, for Motor Cars of the Society Electromotion, (182)
Electric Bell to Notify Drivers when Speed Limit is Reached, (642)
Electric Motor Carriage Brought Oat in Paris, Employing Slow-speed Motors, (380)
Four Thousand Miles Motor Car Trial, 601
French Firms Engaged in Manufacture of, (471) Ministry of Marine, Official Race for Motor Boats from Calais to Dover, (498)
Motor Car Championship, Hill-climbing Competition, (230)
Gordon Bennett Cup Race, (471)
Great Western Motor Coach Services, (345), 442
Heavy Motor Traffic, 201
Imports of Motor Cars for July, (230) Italy, Number of Motor Cars in, (11), (230) Jeantaud’s Experiments with, on a Dry and a Muddy Road, (345)
Lancashire Steam Motor Company’s Works, Leyland, 270
Length of. A., 606
Legal Tangle for Owners of, (546)
Letters on, from Avellana, A., Q, V. Roe, (19) Light Motor Car, Progress of the, Mr. W. W, Beaumont, 580
Lorry Used for Transport by tho 20th jMiddle- sex Ride Volunteers, (134)
Madagascar, (182)
Manaiuvring Ground for, around Chalons Camn. (253)
Motor Vehicles and . Matters Connected therewith (continued):
Martini Motor Car, 4000 Miles Trial, 601 Motor Boat Races. 61,120,131,157, (299). (323), (345), (393). (471), (498), (597), (621) Car Act of 1903, The Devonshire County Council and the, (323)
Car Services on Railways, (11). (15), (157), 160, 204, 206, (218), (240), 442, (655)
Cars and the Public, Leader and Letters on, 278, 307
Car Works, Some, 271
Cycles at the Stanley Show, 520
Lifeboat to be Placed at Newhaven, (230) Mail-carts to Replace Mail Ccaehes between Zurich and Neufchate], (205)
Mail-carts, Pcst-cffice Dissatisfied with Working of, (230)
Plants, New Company Registered, (583) Volunteer Corps, The, 476
Volunteer Corps Manoeuvres in Essex, Attention Attracted in Germany to the Excellent Results, (646)
Omnibuses, Eight Petrol, Destroyed by Fire, (546)
Omnibuses for London, Two Types of, (323), 344
Omnibus Service, Torquay, High Dividend Declared, (571)
Omnibus Service between Petersburg and Schusselburg, (205)
Omnibuses Required for the Cambrian Railway, (508)
Paris Show, 592, 617, 642
Petrol, in Germany, (85)
Petrol Motors, Horse-power Computation for, Capt, C. C. Longridge, 340
Platforms, Underground Moving, New York, (571)
Race, Gordon Bennett Cup, (471)
Race, Hill-climbing Competition, French*, (230)
Races, Motor Boat, 61, 120, 131, 157, (299). (323), (345), (393), (471), (498). (597), (621)
Rail Motor Carriages, Letters on, 307
Registration and Licences, Motor Cars and Cycles, up to September 30bb, 1904, (370)
Registration and Licensing Fees Received by Surrey County Council, (205), (213)
Road to the Trossaehs Barred to, (276)
Rome, Increased Number of, (157)
Rover, 351
Side-slip in, Messrs. H. Darwin and V. C. Burton on, 248
Small Motor Car Trials, (134), 260, 274, 281, 351
Speeds, Letters on, 330
Speed, Weight, &c., Regulations of the Local Government Board, (205)
Stanley Show, 520
Steam Fire Engine for the London County Council, Another, (571)
JMotor Coach for the Maharajah Scindia, Messrs. Kerr, Stuart and Co,, 477 Traction on Common Roads, 447 Wagons, Lancashire Steam Motor Company, 270
Tractive Effort of, on a Dry and a Muddy Road, Jeantaud’s Experiments, (345)
Tyres, Continuous and Endless, Hyath’s, Limited, (370)
Van, 24 Horse-power, New Type of, Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, (606)
Vans, Farmers, Railways and, 372
Wagons in South Africa, Demand for, (253) Yacht, Hummono, 332

MOLESWORTH, Sir Guildford Lindsey, Presidential Address at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 440
Monkbridge Ironworks Jubilee Celebration, (345) Morgan, Mr. James Clifford, (303)
Movers, Potential Efficiency of Prime, C. V. Kerr, 68
Municipal Expenditure, 474 Monopolies in Paris, 501 Specification, A, 91 Trading Accounts, 15
Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn-street not to be Closed, (85)

NAPHTHA Export from Batoum, (61)
Naphtha Wells in Apcheron, (61)
Nasmith Mr. Joseph, 593
Naval Base on the North Coast of Norway, (182)
Cadets, Examination for, 273
Engineer Appointments, 22, 30, 72, 96, 164, 188, 201, 241, 258, 268, 303, 320, 344, 378, 406, 418, 456, 508, 554, 575, 632, 656
Engineer Cadets, Changes to be Introduced at the March Exams., 120
Matters and News—see a^so Ships
Ports, Defences of our Great, 601
Navvy, Steam Crane, Ruston, Proctor and Co., 295, 296
Neilson, Mr,, his Obliging Microbe, (646)
New Zealand, Forest Lands of, (370)
Niagara Palls and Gorge, Professor G. K, Gilbert on the Formation of, (345); Power Company, Gross Earnings, (345)
Niagara River, Proposed Improvement of the, 201
Nile Irrigation, Sir Hanbury Brown on, 243. 248, 267, 289, 313, 337, 352, 401
Nottingham City Council, Schemes Projected bv, (597)
Nozzle, Reaction in a Diverging, 551, 629 Nozzles and Fans, 548

Obituary:

Adams, Mr. Wm., 164
Ashmore, Mr. Wm., 593
Bacon, Rev. T. Mackenzie, 650
Bailey, Mr. Benjamin, 187
Batey, Mr. W. J. S., (423
Bedlington, Mr. Richard, 303
Belk, Mr. Chas., 549
Bell, Sir Lowthian (with Portrait), 626, (634)
Bower, Mr, Jas., 19
Burrell, Mr. R. G., (279)
Carr, Mr. Mark Wm.. 137
Cooke, Mr. H. T., 187
Crookes, Mr. Chas., (331)
Davies, Mr. E. J. Mines, 19
Drown, Dr. T. M., 549
Garside, Mr. A. A., (423)
Harrison, Mr. W. Wheatcroft, 106
Heaton, Mr. George, 263
Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac, (331)
Hunt, Mr. Edmund, 693
Jameson, Mr. John, (64)
Kirkhouse, Mr., 263
Laws, Mr. Wm. G., (660)
Lean, Mr. Joel, 168
Little, Mr. Christopher Jas., (303)
McDonald, Mr. John Allen, (626)
Marey, Prof., 19
Morgan, Mr. Jas. Clifford, (303)
Nasmith, Mr. Joseph, 593
Rickaby, Mr. A. D., (655)
Robinson, Mr. Joseph, (303)
Smith, Mr. W. Ford, (349)
Stephenson, Sir Henry, 235
Stott, Mr. Chas., (279)
Thomas, jun., Mr. John, (625)
Todd, Mr., 106
Turner, Mr. Tom Newsum, 253
Urquhart, Mr. Thos., 64
Walker, Mr. F. Blennerhasset, (303)
Warton, Mr., (98)
Willey, Mr. Henry Alfred, (331)
Wood, Mr. T. B., 19

OIL between Baku and Tiflis, Pipes for Conveying, (205)
Fuel, 578 Burners, 549 Burner, The Luca], 330
or Gas Well in the United States, The Deepest, (299)
in India, Production of Mineral, (111)
Mills in Liverpool, (521)
Presses at Odessa, British and German Made,
Well Shot in Pennsylvania, Oce of the Largest, (85)
Wells in the United States, (323)
and Steam for Power, Gas, 377, 403
Oils that Absorb the Particles of Certain Minerals in Water to the Exclusion of Others, Processes Developed Dependent on this Fact, (182) Oporto, Drainage Works of, (11)

Ordnance and Small Arms:

Guns, 4’7io, and Gin., are to bo Keplaced by the 9in,, Rumour that the, (230)
Gun, 6in., United States, Weight and Length of, (253)
Krupp Works at Essen, Work in the Heavy Gun Department, (521)
Lebel Ririe, Alteration of the Sights of, in French Arsenals, (205)
Naval Guns, 279
Gun Factory, Washington Yard, Extension and Equipment of, (85)
Proving Ground, Indian Head, Experiments with Bands for Projectiles Used in the Big Guns, (530)
Papers on, by Capt. 0. C. Horney, Capt. E. P. O’Hern, and Capt. T. T. Ames, 562
Re-armament of the Artillery, (655)
Rifle to be Adopted by the United States Army, New, (276)
Rifle for the Greek Troops, New, (546)
Survey, The Metric System and the, 96
Syringing, Experiments with an Apparatus for, United States, (85)
War-office Orders Received by Vickers, Sons and Maxim and Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, (323)
Woolwich, Improved Outlook at the Royal Gun Factories, Fresh Orders, (230)

ORE and Stone-crushing Machines, 424 Ojmon, Peat Fuel Made in Germany, (370)

PAINTING Machine, Wallach Bros., 304 Paints Suited for Engineering Structures, 41 Palladium, Its Properties, (11), (521)
Paret, Mr. Dunkin, on Experimental Work with
Solid Emery Wheels, 202
Paris Anti-Dust League, (35)
Parker, Limited, Thos., Annual Report, (20) Patent Infringement Case, (445)
Laws, New, 2, 629
Office, Examination for Situations as Assistant Examiners in the, (471)
Rights of Employers and Workmen, 315 Rules, 1905, 531
Patents, Abstracts of British, Publication Called, (445)
Australian, (330)
A Curiosity in, 232

Patents, Selected American:

Air Compressor, S. E. Alley, 658
Ammunition Hoist, J. F. Metten, 288
Axe Head with Removable Bit, L. L. Gilks, 220 Axles of Vehicles, Pillow or Bush, J. H. Mon- beig and P. Forsans, 288
Blast Furnace Top and Charging Device, Vaughan, M'Clure and Boynton, 408
Bffler, Locomotive, J. Muhr, 486
Boiler, Vertical Tubular, W. Norris, 336 Bridge Pier, B. F. Hudson, 658
Burning Portland Cement Clinker, &c., Apparatus for, T. A. Edison, 24
Car Wheel, G. W, Curfman, 336
Carrier or Conveyor for Projectiles, &?., C. P. E. Schneider, 100
Clamp, E. E. Aires, 124
Compensating Balance, J. H. Purdy, 76 Concrete Piles, F. Shuman, 146
Condensers, T, M. Egnou, 146
Condenser System, W. C. Brown, 24 Condensing Air Pump, J. Wilhelmi, 50 Conveyor Rollers, F. N. Merrill, 510
Cooling Cylinders of Explosive Engines, F. H. Marsh and C. W. Nichols, 24
Cooling Mechanism for Explosive Engines, F. Reaugh, 636
Couplings, Rolling Mill, M. M. Suppes, 408
Patents, Selected American (coniintted)
Crushing Mill, E. C. Griffin, 510
Driving Belt, A. Fritz, 24
Electric Machines, Coil-retaining Means for
I. D. Kaiser, 266
Electric Motors, Synchronous, A. Churchward, 312
Engine, Duplex Pomping, E. Vogel, 358 Explosive, H. Sohnlein, 658 Gas, or other Internal Combustion, D.
Clerk, 486
Internal Combustion, Roberts, James and Young, 636
Internal Combustion, H. C. Waite, 194 Feed Mechanism for Explosive Engines, L, F. Washbourne, 146
Fuel-feed Apparatus, Pulverulent, W. Wolfe, 146
Furnace, F. M. Greene, 312
Electric, C. G. P. de Laval, 382
Grate for Smokeless Combustion, F.
Girtanner, 100
Shaft, for Destruction of Refuge, H.
Ochwat, 510
Tilting, Metallurgical, J. A. Potter, 510
Gas Coal, Settle and Pad field, 146
Gas Producer, W. J. Crossley and T, R’gby 434
Glass Furnace, W. T. Nicholls, 191
Hopper-feeding Device for Gas Producers, W. J. Knox, 121
Hydraulic Press, E. Crowe, 220, 288
Hydraulic Rail-binding Tool, C. Wigtel, 172
Lamp, Hydro-carbon Incandescent, G. Washington, 124
Locomotive Car Seat, B. W. Anderson, 312
Locomotive Tender Frame, T. E. Adams, 658
Luminants for Incandescent Lamps, F. M. F. Cazin, 636
Metal Dam, J. L. Holmes, 586
Motor, E. S. Pillsbury and E. Bretch, 586
Vehicles, E. S. Lea, 242
Vehicles, Fitting for Preventing Sideslip, W. Rourke, 212
Nitrating Fibrous Matteis, J. Selwig, 212 Oil-extracting Apparatus, M. Kirshner, 148 Ordnance, Carriage for Disappearing, F. Rausenberger, 486
Packing for Pistons and Piston Valves, J. T. Wilson, 50
Percussion Fuse, A, T. Dawson and L, Silver- man, 312
Pressure Gauge, G. Spencer, 194
Pump, Centrifugal, T. Reuter, 610
Condensing Air, J. Wilhelmi, 50 Pollycellular Centrifugal, A. Maginot, 658
Pumping Apparatus, A. C. E. Rateau, 312, 382 Regulating Device for Motors or Engines, F. Reichenbach, 636
Screw-threading Die, A. M. Saunders, 146 Sighting Tube for Vessels, S. Lake, 50 Soldering Apparatus, Wirth and Beech, 358 Speed Gear, Variable, W. T. Leighton, 124 Speed Transmission Device, Variable, W.
Evans and P. W. Knauf, 76
Spindle Bearing, A, Morcom, 536
Starting Vaporiser for Explosive Engines, Wassmann and A. A. Low, 460
Staying Plates, J. M. McClellan, 510 Stuffing-box, A. L. Dudley, 76 Superheater, C. Hagans, 610
Steam, E. Pielcck, 220 J. H. Rosenthal, 382 Thermo-static Device, C. F. Hilkier, 172 Tongs for Furnace-charging Cranes, C. Taylor, 124
Tubes, Manufacture of, A. E, Beck and Townsend, 686
Turbine, A. M. Levin, 658
Bucket, H. Geisenhauer, 434 Centrifugal, F. Ray, 312 Elastic Fluid, W. J. Cartwright, 558 Forming U-shaped Backets in, Messrs.
Kaufhold and Hofmann, 266
Generator, W. L. R. Emmett and O. Junggren, 434
of the Multiple-expansion Type, C. F. L. Brown, 460
Marine Steam, C. A. Parsons, 460 Steam, B. M. Dutton, 408
P. J. Hedlund, 358
S. N. Smith, 610
J. Stumpf, 100 G. Weichell, 336
Valve Mechanism for Air Compressors, A, W, and Z. W. Daw, *266
Thermostatic, W. E. Barnes, 336
Vanadium and Tin Alloys, G. Gin, 242 Water Meter, F, Lambert, 220
Wire, Iron or Steel, F. Forsberg, 486

PATRICK Metal, (48)
Paving Flags from Destructor Slag, Manufacture of, 41
Peat Fuel made in Germany, (370)
Petrol Lamp, A, Clarafax Lamp Company, 428 Petrol Launches on the Thames, (419)
Pelton Wheels, (187), 213, 235, 252 Petroleum, California, (597)
Largest Flow ever Struck in Western
Virginia, (323)
Production, United States, (471) Storage Tanks, Barrow, (498) Photographic Apparatus recording 2000 Impressions per Second, (471)
Physical Laboratory, The National, Dr. Glazebrook’s Report on its Work, 248, 452
Pipe, 10 square feet of bare, filled with Steam at 1001b. pressure, corresponds to the Waste of Two Tons of Coal per Annum, (182)
Plate Girder Webs, 257. 306
Platinum Deposits in Eastern Russia, Works for
Exploitation of, (205)
Output in Russia, (471)
World’s I^roduction, its Price since the War in the East, (498)
Pneumatic Tools, 209
Pneumatic Tubes for Chicago Post-oflBce, Nine Miles of, (276)
Point of View, The, Mr. Walter C. Kerr, 653 Polarity Indicator, A Simple and Effective, (498) Pontoon, South Shields, Teesside Bridge and Engineering Company, (534)
Portland Cement Industry in Canada, (498) Portland Cement—see also Cement, Portland Postal Regulations, (401)
Postal Service and Latter Kates in Franco, Needed Reforms, (471)
Pounds and Pennies, 64
Powell Wood Preserving Process. The, 452 Premier (Transvaal) Diamond Mine, by Stafford Ransome, 588
Press, Belt-driven Dio, Mo:sre. Taylor and Challen, 71
Pressure on Magnetic Induction, Apparatus for Ascertainiog Effect of, (345)
Prime Movers, Potential Efficiency of, C. V. Kerr, 68
Priming and Baffie Platen, 547
Pulley, 22ft. Diameter Rope, 454 Pumps, Air, 252, 280, 375, 427, 479
Automatic Gas, (205)
High-speed Electric, 190
Horizontal Dry Vacuum, Worthington
Pump Company, 174 Admiralty, Steam, 138 The Richardson Steam, 188 Pumping Acid Water, (331)
Engines at Hinksford, 28, 36, 40 Heavy Liquids, 577
Machinery, Mr. I. H. Reynoldson, 537 Plant, Chatham Dockyard, Messrs. Hayward - Tyler and Co., (SuppUDicnly Noecinber 1901). 502
East London Water Company, 328
for Kobe Floating Dock, 91 for the New South Dock, Cardiff, 564, 565, (606)
Sinking, Pulsometer Engineering Company, 319
Pyrites, Iron and Copper, How to Distinguish them Underground, (182)
Pyrodyen Steam Wagon, 388
Pyrometers for Industrial Purposes, Mr. R. S. Whipple on, 625
Pyrophoric Alloys for Igniting Gases, Welsbach*s French Patent for Producing, (111)

Quarry Work, Compressed Air in, 232

Railway Matters:

Railway and Tratiiicay Accidents; (2) Railicays, Jii'ilish, Canadian^ Colonial, Jndian, and Soath A frican; (3) Raiheays, Electric ; (4) Raiheays, Eoretyn ; (5) Railways, Light; (C) Railway Loeotaotives; (7) Railway Neics, Various, Rritisk and Foreign; (S) Railways, Permanent jhiy; (9) liaiitcays, Rolling Stock.

Railway and Tramway Accidents:

Boston and Worcester-street Tramway Accident, (471)
Canadian-Pacific, Train Attacked by Robbers, (345)
Careless Working on Railways, 648
Chicago, October, (597)
Curious in Spain, 84
Derailments, Leader on, 371
Fall of a Live Tramway Wire, (199)
Glasgow Tramcar Accidents, Mr. Gerald Balfour on the, (35)
“ Head-on ” Collision, A Canada, 423
Indian Railways, Returns, Cause of Decrease in 1903, (298), (323), (370). (393)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, (345)
Level Crossings, in Prance, Suppression of, (11)
Live Rail, Death, Caused by Stepping on a, 207, (345); Professor P. Silvanus Thompson on the Subject of the Live Rail, (370)
London and North-Western, Dee Embankment Broken into by the Sea, (323)
? Llanelly, (432), (458)
Locomotive Explosion in Paris, 397
North-Eastern, near Darlington, Collision, Due to the Signalman, (11)
Paris, Locomotive Boiler Explosion, Gare St. Lazare, (111)
Metropolitan, Couronnes Station, Judgment Delivered, (621)
Royau-Paris Train, Accident to, (182)
Qu'lon-Tinnevelly Line Damaged by Monsoon, (157)
Tank Engine Dorailments, 651
Trains Stopped by Robbers in America, (345)
United Kingdom, Three Months Ending March 318t, 1904, Blue-book Containing Returns of, (205)
United States, Increase in the Number of, in 1904, (393), 573, (646), 605 ; Causes of Number in October, (584). (597)
May, (61); Year Ending June 30th, 1903, (111)
Record of Coupling Accidents Increases, (546)
Savannah, Electric, Negro Punished for Attempting to Wreck a Car, (471)
Venice, A Narrow Escape, (593)

Railways, British, Canadian, Colonial, Indian, South African:

Africa, South, Rhodesian, Mileage Opened for Traffic, (205)
Australia, Southern, Mileage Earnings, Expenditure, (445)
Australia, Western, Annual Report, (571) Commissioners’ Reports, (445)
Union, 373
Axholme, from Crowle to Haxley, (498)
British Autumn Train Services, by Charles Rous-Marten, 360
and French Summer Train Services in 1904, C. Rous-Marten, No. 1, 53, 102, (131)
Working of, 232
Burma, Bridges of, (498)
Caledonian, Half-yearly Report, (253)
Cambrian, Extra Services and Short Trains, (571)
Canada, Grand Trunk, (35), (253)
Canada’s New Projects, (230), (595), (646)
Canadian Pacific, (419), 526
Railways, British, Canadian, Colonial, Indian, South African
Cafn to Cairo, Extension, (571)
Cape, Heavy Inland Cuargep, (571)
Ceylon, (276), (445)
Clay Cross, (646)
Dearne Valley, (430) Egypt, Cairo to Port Said, (205)
Ismailia to Port Said, Broad Line, (205) Su'ian-Atbara Line, Tyer’s Electric Tablet and Vacuum Automatic Brakes, (205)
Glasgow and South-Western, Half-yearly Report, (253)
Gold Coast, Mr. Allison Smith’s Appointment, (529)
Great Central, 40-Ton Wagons Ordered, (393) Railways to be Transferred to, (445)
Special Train through between Manchester and Plymouth, (445)
Great Eastern, Dividends Announced, (85) Motor Omnibus Service, (85) Mr. H. G. Drury Retires, (597)
Great Northern, Appointment of Mr. Marsh, (498)
of Ireland, Dividend Recommended, (85)
of Scotland, Sir D. Stewart Appointed Chairman, (323) Great Western, Longest Non-stopping Railway Run in the World, C. Rous- Marton, 33
More Workmen’s Trains and Reduced Pares, (579)
Motor Car Service, Slough and Windsor, (15), (85); Tonjuay and Paignton, (61)
New Route to the West, Castle Cary and Lamport Riilway, 576
Pearson r., 120 Rates and Taxes Paid by, (253) R ^ad Motor Car Service be-' tween Caine and Marlborough, (345)
Extension of Motor Coach Services on the, 442
Steam Motor Service on the Ruabon-Dolgelly Branch, (11) Total Single-track Mileage, (370)
Winter Services, (345)
Gross Receipts, Passenger and Goods Traffic, 1903,(276)
Indian, Agra-Delhi Chord, (445) Bengal-Nagpur, (253) and the British Manufacturer in 1903, 339
Standard Time on, (247), (276); Capital Outlay of the Close of 1903, (299); Addition to Rolling Stock on, (299); , Mileage Opened, 1903, (299)
Ceylon Government Line, Receipts and Mileage, 1903, (597)
Formation of a Board of Management Sanctioned by the Government, (323)
Goods Traffic on, (61), (323)
Kalka Simla, Necessity to Increase the Borrowing Powers, (546)
Madras, Lord Sandhurst Appointed Director, (445)
New Mileage to be Opened and Under Construction, (61); Total Length Open for Traffic, 1903, (61)
North-Western Electric Punkahs and Light. (498)
Official Report on, for 1903, (11) Passenger Traffic on, 487
Peninsula, The Great, Net Revenue and Dividend, (597)
South, Total Revenue Earnings, (571)
Inter-Oceanic, 526
Lagos Extension Scheme, (571)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Decrease in the Traffic, (393)
London, Brighton and South Coast, Dividend Proposed, (85)
London, Brighton and South Coast, Mr. Marsh’s Appointment, (498)
London, Chatham and Dover, Dividend Proposed, (85)
London Metropolitan Extensions, President of the Board ot Trade on, (498)
London and North-Western, Accelerated Services to and from Glasgow, (323); Proposed New Line between llurdlow, Bolsover, and Matlock, (419); Success of the ‘ * Precursor ” Class of Locomotives on, (419)
Long Distance Non-stop Run, (646)
Recent Locomotive Work on the, Mr. Charles Rous-Marten, 438, 511, 559, 611
Short Hours at Crewe, (471)
Sidings at Welham Junction, (498)
London and South-Western Rolling Stock. 614, 628 ’
Metropolitan, Conversion to Electric Traction, (35), 591 ; Report for Past Half-year, (111)
District Extension to Uxbridge,
(11) ; French Rolling Stock Ordered for, (157)
Midland, Mr. Elliott’s Appointment, (646) Half-yearly Report, (182); Steam Motor Coaches, 204, 2C6
Mr. H. Evans Appointed Goods Manager, (621)
New Re-labelling Station at Toton, (498) ’
Second-class Carriages on, Abolished Thirty Years Ago, (646); Steamboats for, (182)
Steam Motor Services, (11)
. Traffic Last Half-year, (393)
Mileage, Goods Train, Reduction in, 1903, (276) Mileage of, at the End of 1903, (276)
Money Invested in Home Railways, (276) Queensland, New Enterprise, (323)
Railways, Bvltish, Canadian, Colonial, Indian, South African (coptinued)-.
Natal and Orangia, New Lines Projected, (299) Natal and the Inter-colonial Council, Agreement between, (323)
New South Wales, (345), 350
New Zealand, Report for 1903, 303 ; Mileage added. (276) ; Revenue, 1903, (276)
North-Eastern, Electrification to Darlington, (205)
Electric Autocar Service, Scarborough and Filey, (191)
No more First-class Contract Tickets on the Electrified Portion of the System, (370) Officials Sent to the United States to Report on Transportation Methods, (379) North British, Appointment of Mr. W. P.
Reid, (11)
North British, College Goods Station, 627
North London, Receipts, Expenses, Traffic, (157)
South-Ea,stern and London, Chatham, and Dover, Extensions Projected, (521)
and London, Chatham,_ and Dover, Managing Committee’s Accounts, (85)
and Chatham, New Station at Elmstead, (35) Opening of New Loop Lines, (36)
Special Train on December 23, (516)
Through Corridor Carriage from Calais, (85).
Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension, Half- yearly Report, (253)
Sanderland—Darlington—Barrow, (431), (471), (646)
Tatf Vale, Motor Car Services and Dividend, (122), (370), (379)
Tasmanian, Working of, Revenue, Expenditure, &c., (219)
Transvaal and Natal Extensions, (299), (323) New Line, Fourteen Streams to Klerksdorp, (61)
Uganda, March Traffic Report, (205) Victorian, Report for Year ending June 30th, 1904, (546), 565
Wales, Aberystwith to Aberayrow, Proposed, (597)
New Lines in Progress, (608)
West of England and Sunderland, New Line Projected, (393)

Railways, Electric:

America, Single-phase Motors for Railway Work in favour,(546)
Baker-street and Waterloo, (111)
Berlin—Hamburg, Projected, (52l)
Berlin Overhead and Underground, Passengers Carried on, (276)
Canada, Mileage of Street, (253)
Central London, Dividend for Half-year and Balance brought forward,
(111)
Extensions Projected, (621) Two-minute Services, (498)
Central South African, Springs—Randfontein Section, (582)
Chicago Elevated, 72
Conway to Bettws-y-Coed, (170)
Fire Precautions on, 441
Fort Wayne, Springfield, and Decatur Line, Single-phase System, (134)
Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton, (134)
Italy, Milan through Varese to Lugano, (230)
Live Rails, Liverpool and Southport, Deaths Caused by Stepping on, 207, (345) Protection and Dangers of, 207 Professor S. P. Thompson on the Dangers of, 235, 307, (370), 421
Liverpool and Southport, 185 ; Death Caused by Stepping on Live Rail, (345)
London, District Trains to begin to Run January 1st, (393)
London, Proposed Overhead Railway above the Regent’s Canal, (646)
Main Line Railways, 601
Manila, (597)
Metropolitan District, Financial Matters, (540) District, Rolling Stock on, 649 Electrification of the, 691 Neasden Section, (498)
Newcastle and North Shields, (35)
Newcastle and Tynemouth, (21)
New Zealand, Dunedin, (230)
North-Eastern Railway, and upon Tyneside, Use of Electricity on, Chas. H. Merz and Wm. McLellan, (21), 221, 260, 282
Service Maintained Throughout Heavy Snowfall, (571)
Trial Trips, Current Collecting from Overhead-Wires, (498) Suburban Lines, Newcastle and Tynemouth and Riverside Branches, (144)
Nurnberg-Furlher Street, Cost of Power of, (111)
Paris Metropolitan Lines, Nos. 3, 4, 7, (230), (299), (521), (546)
Passengers as Speed Indicators, 327
Rolling Stock for, 649
Single-phase, The First in the United States, 257
Sleet from the Third Rail by Heating, Removal of, (323)
Swedish State, Projected Electrification of, (61) Swiss, Jungfrau, (35), (85), (230)
United States, Bloomington, Pontiac and Joliet, Cars of, (471)
Boston Elevated, (597) Bridgeport, Experiments as to Current Required for Heating a Third Rail to Remove Sleet, (299)
Illinois, Kewanee and Geneseo, (299)
Inter-State, Limited, (597)
United States, Kansas City, Test of Device for Increasing Traction by Magnelism, (299)
Lake Erie and Western, Experiment in Electrification, (35) New York, Attempt to Prchibit Transportation of Goods through the City Streets, (546) Central and Hudson River Railway, (521), 542,543,544, 545
New Haven and Hartford, (85), 319, (471)
Rapid Transit, (597) Subway, (205), (299) Oregon Water Power and Railway Company, (111) Philadelphia, Lancaster and Harrisburg, (230) Sb. Louis, Feat in Street Railway Transportation, (393) St. Louis, Transit and Suburban Trains, Traffic, (471)

Railways, Foreign:

Abyssinia, Internationalisation of Royal Lines, (182)
Africa, East, Ivory Coast, (621) Algeria, Ben Zireg and Kenadza, (253) American, Gross Earnings of Twenty-sevon, (597)
Argentine, (345) Austrian, Semmering, Fiftieth Anniversary of its Opening, (157)
Belgian, Ourthe Line, Doubling of, (134) Belgian State, Doubling several Sections, (157) Brszil, Sorocobana Railway Purchased by the Government, (182)
Chile, (276) Chilian-Transandine, (315)
China, Canton-Hankow, Canton Merchants Purchase the American Interest in, (445)
Shanghai and Canton, (35) Shanghai-Nanking, (182) Congo Free State, Reduced Rates to Encourage Traffic, (597)
Corea, Overland Route from Europe by way of Siberia to, (157)
Dahomey, (276)
Danish, Unsatisfactory Results as far as Returns are concerned, Law to Regulate the Working anew, (366)
Egyptian State, Receipts and Expenses, (419) Egyptian State, Special Commission to Report upon, (419)
Finland, Extensions Completed, (393) France, Aix-les-Thermes to Ripoll, (205), (230) Castelsarrasin and Beaumont de Lomagne, (471)
Eastern of, Gross Receipts, (111) Orleans Extension, (393) Paris - Lyons - Mediterranean, Accelerated Winter Service, (205)
Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean, The Cote d’Azur Rapide, (546)
Paris Metropolitan, Line No. 3 Opened for Traffic, (11)
Long Bogie Carriages, Lengthening of Platforms, (157)
Traffic, Receipts, Expenditure, Capital, (157) Luchon, Venasque, Mouzon, (498) Nice to Cuneo, &c., (61) Rethol and Guignicourt, (11) Trans-Pyreneean, (205), (230), 376 Villefranche to Bourg-Madame, (393) French Guinea, The Conakry-Niger in, (596) French Systems, Collective Length of Line in the Seven Large, (621)
German, Africa, West, Togo, New Line Projected, (230)
East African, Issue of Shares for, (597)
Protectorate, Togoland, (445) Standard Gauge, Mileage of, (230) Guatemala Central, Mileage and Gross Earnings, (299)
Japan, Little Progress in Railway Extensicn, (61)
Mileage Opened in 1902, 1903, (157) Total Mileage, (419)
Madagascar, (253)
Malay States, Line through Johore, (61) Mexican, (276), (345)
Netherlands, (546) Ottoman, Extensions, (323)
Peru and Bolivia, New Lines Projected, (323), (345)
Peru, Extensions Authorised, (393) Portugal, Extensions, (11)
Prussian State, Electrically Lighted Traits, (571)
Rio Grande do Sul, Mileage, (111) Russian, Asiatic Strategic, (419)
The Catharine, Secona Line Opened, (370)
Circum-Baikal, (299), (323), (331), 418 Kherson to Nicolaietf, (445) Moscow and Briansk, The Kaluga Branch,(196)
Moscow-Windau, (317)
New Mileage Opened to Traffic in 1904, (646)
Nicolas, Growth of Traffic, Projected Fourth Rail, (419)
Nyslott to Elisenvaara, (345) Operations of, for 1902, (335) Orenburg-Tashkent, (205), (253), (375),
Riga-Tuckum, Second Line, (304) State, Automobiles for the Use of, (621) Women Employed on, (621) Railway, Budget for 1904, (393) Trans-Siberian, Doubling of Line, (134), (445) (594)
Trans-Siberian, Report on the Working, (370)
Riazan-Uralsk, Connection with Astrakhan abandoned, (471)
Sb, Petersburg-Vitebsk, (205)
Risalan, Vladicaucas Railway to be Purchased by, (646)
Warsaw-Baku Projected, (419) Western Siberia, Omsk-Tinmen Projected, (419)
Senegal, Kagosto Bamako, (61)
Spain, Secondary Railways in, (187) Spain, Trans-Pyreneean, (205), (230), 376 Suakin-Atbaral (111)
Sweden, Eist Coast, (134)
New Lines from Halmstad, Hernojand and Gslle, Gothenbnrg to SUom- stadt, (134)
Scheme for Electrification of all State Lines, (61)
Swedish, State Experiments with Electric Motive Power on, (157)
Swiss, Albula, 82,127
Eiger Tunnel, (230) Mont Blanc, (205)
Result of the Purchase by the Central Government, (419)
Simplon Tunnel and the Hot Springs, 179, 244, 341, 385. 415, 488, 489, 568 under the Bernese Oberland, to Join the Simplon Tunnel Line, (621). (646) Turkey, Bagdad and Anatolian, (230)
Haifa-Damascus Line, Work Resumed, (157)
United States, Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala., (2S0)
Block Signalling tj be Made Compulsory, (646)
Boston Elevated, (597) Chicago and North - Western, Improvements on, (471)
Denver, North-Western and Pacific Road, First Section Opened, (85)
Erie, Electrification Plan, (471) Extension, Buffalo and Susquehanna, &c., (299)
Illinois Central, Second Track between Memphis and Fulton. (253)
Mileage in 1903, (85), (571)
New York Central and Hudson River, Electrification of, (521), 542, 543, 544, 545
New York, New Haven and Hartford, Rapid Transit Service between New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and the Bronx, (294); No New Men over 35 Years Old will be Employed on. (323)
Par Value of Railway Capital, (419)
Pennsylvanian, Fast Runs on, (597)
Improvementin the Volume of Freight Traffic, Numbers of Men Taken Back, (323)
Severe Drought Along. (546)
New Rolling- stock Ordered (546)
Ten Hours’ Day Resumed in the Company’s Workshops, (276)
Tunnel under the East River, (133)
Extension, (597) Philadelphia and Reading, Automatic Block Signals on the Trenton Branch, (329)
Sb. Louis South-Western Extension, (597)
Salt Lake Ci'y to San Pedro, (35)
Subway, New York, (205), (621) Total Single Track Mileage, (134)
Union Pacific, Gasoline Motor Car Service, (498)
Wabash Railway Runs Trains into Pittsburg, (61)

Railways, Light:

Association of Tramways and, 258, 406, 452
Bai si, (621)
Battws and Snowdon, (376). (521)
Blackpool and Garsfcang, (134)
Electiic, 201
Loek acd Manifold Rolling-stock, 387, 394
Manifold, Extension to Buxton, (276)
Mitcham, Delayed, (498)
Orders Confirmed by the Board of Trade, (35), (59), (182), (205), (230), (253), (345), (370), (498)
Wakefield and District, 472, 476
Warrington and Knutsford Line Projected, (571).
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Now Line, (498)

Railways, Locomotives:

American, Exports of, (597)
Express, Pennsylvania Railway, 212, 213
Mallet Compound, 72, 91
Atlantic Type, for the- Great Central, Beyer, Peacock and Co,, (111)
Baldwin Works, Men Discharged at, (11)
Belgian, 161
Boilers, Plant for Removing Foul Water from, in Use on Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway, (445)
Tests on Automatic Stokers for, (134) Water-softening Plants for Feeding,
British and American for Japan, and Respective Merits of. Compared, (157)
Coal Consumed by, British, (276)
Colonial, 160 ’
Danish State, Experiments on, (621)
Danish State, Wheel Peripheries Gauged and Conclusions Arrived at with Regard to Single-drivers, and Four and Six-coupled. (157)
De Glehn Compound, for the Egyptian State Railway, (111)
De Glehn System, Two More, Built on the, by the Great Western Railway, (571) E'ght-coupled, Built in Queensland {Supple- 'nicntt Augud 5^A, 1904), 130
Electric, for the New York Central, 44, 72 (521), 542, 543,544, 545 Oberhausen Railway Inspection • Works of the German State Rail
ways, 44 in Use on the Jungfrau Railway, .(35),
Export Trade, British and American, 587 Exported from the United States to Japan, (571)
Four-coupled Passenger, London and North- Western, Mr. G. Whale {Supplement, October 14^Zi, 1904), 360
Four-cylinderCompound, for Experimental Purposes on Great Northern Lines, Vulcan Foundry, (621) Paris-Orleans, See. Alsacienne de Constructions Meea- niques, 595 Von Borries, St. Louis Exhibition, 259
Fuel, Pressed Peat as, (182)
Gas Works, Small, 400
Germany, State, New, Required, (61)
Grand Trunk Railway, (345)
Great Northern, Experiments Next Summer, (621)
Great Western, Locomotives on the de Glehn System, Built by, (571)
Heavy, Sharp, Stewart and Co., for the Rhymney Railway, (122)
High-speed, 19
High-speed Steam. 238
Locomotive and Machine Company, Longue Pointe, Canada, (345)
Locomotive and Machine Company cf Montreal, Limited, 317, 324, (344)
London and North-Western, Recent Locomotive Work on the, Mr. Charles Rous-Marten, 438, 511, 559, 611
London and North-Western, Success of the “Precursor” Class of, Twenty more to bo Built, (419)
Mahratta Railway, Twenty for. (445)
Mallet Duplex Compound, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, the American Locomotive Company (Supplements, September October 1904), 274, 300, 305, 349
Narrow-gauge, Consolidation, Mexican Railways, Kerr, Stuart and Co. (Supplement, December 1904), 540
Nine Ordered in Germany by Japan, (276)
Old, in Cornwall, 364
Peculiar, Built in 1874, at Work in North Wales, 498
Piston Valves for, Question Discussed, (131)
Pennsylvania Railway, Performance of Express Locomotives on, E. L. Coster, 212
Performance, Scientific Investigations of, at St. Louis Exhibition, Gold Medal Awarded, (646)
Pl ussian State Railways, Three Hundred Ordered for, (157)
Repair Contract, The Largest, ever Undertaken, U.S., (205)
Reversing Gear of, 166
Russian, South-East, Fifteen Ordered for, (621)
Schenectady Works, Number of Men Employed, (597)
Scientific Treatise on, Prize Awarded to Professor Von Borries for the Best, (646)
Simple and Compound, 574
Simplon Railway, 570
Sixty New, Sinctioned ' for Bengal-Nagpur
Railway, (182). (253)
Small, at a Gas Works, 400
Stephenson and Co., Messrs. Robert, Work on Hand for the Bengal-Nagpur Railway and the North-East of Ireland, (310)
Tank, Derailments of, 624, 651
Ten for China, Messrs. R. Stephenson and Co., (584)
Testing Laboratory, Charlottenburg - Berlin Technical University, (205)
Testing Plant, 56
for, St. Louis Exhibidon {Supplement, August 19^/1), 178
Sb. Louis Exhibition, The Cole Four-cylinder Balanced Compound under Test, (621)
Tests of, Papers on. Read at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in America, (66) Treatise on. Prize Offered by the German Society of Mechanical Eogineers for, (253) Two Large Type, for the Grand Trunk, (345) United States, Aggregate Number in Service, (393)
Number in Use, (134) to Burn Oil, (571)
With Coles’ Superheater, New York Central, 319
Works in Canada, New, 317, 324, (344), (345)
Works near Yokohama, Anglo-Japanese, (360)

Railway News, Various, British and Foreign:

Advertisements and Automatic Machines in the New York Underground, Regulations Respecting, (597)
Air Brakes in United States, General Use of. (646)
Air Experiments at Zossen, (345)
American Reporters’ Mistakes in Connection with the Meetings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, (11)
Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers, Meeting at Windermere, (11)
Automatic Block Signalling on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, (329)
Baldwin Works, Men Discharged from, (11)
Block Signalling to be Made Compulsory in the United States, (646)
^*(85)^’ Wagon, Experiments with,
British Autumn Train Services, Chas. Rous- Marten, S60
Buffer Couplings, Mr. J. S. Cole’s, (646)
Railway News, Various, British Zand '
Foreign (continued};
Cable Railway, Penanj^ Hill, (230)
Careless Working on Railways, 618
Chicago, Goods Sorting Yard, Elevated Railways, Large Pumping Engines, 72
Chicago, Noise Made by the Elevated Railway Trains and Remedy Proposed, (621)
Coal Briquettes Used on the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, (230), (370) and Coke Carried by English and Scotch, 19C3,(546)
Contracts, 579, 600, 624
Convention, International, 396
Danish Train Ferries, 550
Deadening Noises on Elevated Railways in Chicago, (498)
Diamond Jubilee of the Cheap Trains Act, 468 Disinfection of Rolling Stock in Bavaria, (134) Early Express Train, 1862, 582
Economies in America, (64)
Exeter Railway Company’s Dispute with the Great Western, (11)
Fast Run, 1862, 582
Fast Runs, Pennsylvania Railway, (597)
First Through Passenger Train from Capetown to the Victoria Falls, (11)
French, Total Mileage Worked by the Six Large Administrations of, (323)
Goods Sorting Yard, Chicago, 72
Goole Steam Shipping Company, Sals of, to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, (230)
Great Northern Railway Company’s Assessments in the Edmonton Union, (521)
Great Western, Annual Holiday of the Works, (61)
Great Western Winter Service, (345)
Heavy Train Service, (91)
Hydraulic Buffers, Messrs. Ransome and Rapier’s, Tested and Fitted at King’s Cross and Glasgow, (11)
India, North-West of, Tension between Hindu and Mahomedan Emploje^ on the, (646)
Indian, Financial Resuits of the Working of State and Guaranteed, 1903; Total Capital Outlay, 1903 ; Mileage Opened for Traffic, 1903; Rolling Stock added, 1903 ; Increased Use of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, (299)
Railway Problems, Prizes to Encourage Study of, (230)
Total Sterling Capital Raised by, (61)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Deputation of Officials to the Continent to Report on Transportation Methods and Machinery, (521), (546)
Lighting and Ventilating Railway Carriages, Electric, (182)
Live Loads for Railway Bridges, Mr. H. W. Hodge, 518
Locomotive Engine and Firemen, Mr. Jas. Holmes’ Address at Swansea to, (299)
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Increase of Fares at Certain Stations, and Reason for the same, (61)
Locomotives and Rolling Stock, Papers on, by Mr, Busse. Mr. Wm. Forsyth, and M. E. Sauvage, 518
London and North-Western and Brighton and South Coast, Through Services Arranged for, (521)
London and North-Western, Short Hours at Crewe, (471)
London and South-Western and Great Western Companies, Arrangement respecting Return Tickets, (621)
Longest Non-stopping Railway Run in the World, C. Rous-Marten, 33
Magnetism, Device for Increasing Traction by, (299)
Mansion House Association on Railway and Canal Traffic, (471)
Metallic Wire Brush Adjusted to Rolling Stock for Clearing the Track, (471)
Motor Car Services in Cornwall, (157) on the Great Western, (11), (15). (345)
the Midland, (11) North-Eastern, (182) Taff Vale, (370) Welsh, (240)
Mountain Railway, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of the First, (85)
Natal and Transvaal Governments, Important Railway Agreement between, (299)
National Union of Federated Railways, Mr. Jas, Holmes’ Address to Locomotive Engine and Firemen at Swansea, (299)
New Orleans, Terminal Goods Station at Chalmette, (35)
New York Avenue Bridge, (498)
New York Subway, Traffic, (597)
North British, Peebles Branch, Rapid Bridge Work, (230)
North-Eastern, Appointment of Mr. E. C, Giddes as Chief Claims Agent, (584)
Petrol-driven Car Service, (584) No more First-class Contract Tickets on Electric Lines, (370)
Sir Geo. Gibb Entertained, (370)
Railway Deputation to the St. Louis Exhibition, (230)
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, Use of Coal Briquettes on, (370)
Passenger v. Goods Traffic, 208
Passenger Traffic on Indian Railways, 487
Peat as Locomotive Fuel, (182)
Pension Fund for Employes, Canadian Railways,
Rail Motor Cars, 160
Railway Benevolent Institution, “ Tales of the Hall ” to be Sold on behalf of, (35) Museum, A, (646)
Carriage Ventilation, 526
Rates for Coal Brought to London, Increased, (345)
Record Run, Atlantic City Railway, (205)
Resistance of Air to Trains, 303, 331, 332, (345) Rusfeiiu Railway Staff, Only Persons of
Advanced Education to be Appointed Chiefs of Sections. (597)
Russian, St. Petersburg Lines, Hospital for the Men Engaged on, (370)
Rolling Stock, Disinfection of, (134)
yf- Exhibition. Medals Awarded by. (6461 St. Louis Railway Staliin. The. (521) ^‘^649'^ Railway Carriage’,
RRok, United States, (329), (646) Signalling through Rails, Electric,' (182) Signals at W aterloo Station, Defectiva, 186 Spain Appointed to Study the
Plant (in)Fixed and Movable Speeds in America and Europe, 284
Machine, Tne Reavall Pneii-
Stations of the liistriet and Metropolitan Railway, to be Pulled Down and Replacetl hy Business Premises, (521)
Stretton, (102), 131 ; C. Rous-Maiten, 187
Stationmaster has the in the World, (5461
Tajes of the Rail,” by Mr. P. \V.
Ponlzen and Mr W T
Poxleo on, 517
Traok-laying Roeord on the San Pedro, Los °nd Salt Lake Railway, (P21) ^*^LSes^(36)’'"^ Seventeen English and Irish Train Resistance, 303, 331. 332, (345) Iramway Competition with, 352 Trans-Caucasian Number of Passengers who
Travelled Without Paying, (11) ®
Underground Railways, Papers on, by Mr. W. nnd Mr. D. Hay, 518 United Kingdom, Rolling Stock of the, (471) Unit’d States, New York City Officials’ Agreo- [ ment with Staten Island
ferry Officials, (230) l£03. Number of Men Employed on, (205)
Number of Emplojds on the Pay Rolls, (111)
[ i"**® Highest Speeds Ever Attained in America, (471)
Pennsylvanian, Machinery to
Replacs Manual Work, as f ar as Possible, (230)
Percentage of Capital Stock on which no Dividends were w i., Rast Year, (120)
Ventilation of Tunnels. Papers on, by Mr. P
I ox and Mr. C. S. Churchill. 518 Wales, Enterprise in, (634) "^San R^nw^, (52™^’
^i«nna. Importation Duty Pree Articles” Granted hy the Russian Government, (370)
Workmen’s Trains, 525

Railways, Permanent Way;

British, for Korea, (134)
Canada, Railmaking in, 232 318 Creeping of Rails, 43, (419) ^(276^ Imported into Canada,
Great Northern Contract for 5000 Tons of Steel Kails Let to United States Steel Trast, (597) Co- f®*' Buenos Ayres and Malay States, (74), (345) '
International Steel Rail Combination (4311 Powley, Norman and Co., for Italian Meri- dionale Railway, (74)
Rail Standard of the Nine Chief English Rail- ways, (445) ”
Removable and Continuous Rail, A, Mr. H. W Perry, 567
H- R- Wilkinson on, Wm Marriott on, 538, 606 > m.
^V276)^^®' Bailmaking Plant,
I“'’®stgations as to the

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Railways, Rolling Stock

Westinghouse Brakes for the New Steel Cars of the Interborouj2h Rapid Transit Company of New York, (188)
Works for Building, Lucknow, (370)

RAINFALL, Glencorse, (471)

Raking a River, 530
Rates, Wolverhampton Compared to Other Towns, (597)
Rawmarsh Sewage, (35) Ravages of Ship-worms on Australian Hardwoods,
418 Reaction in a Diverging Nozzle, 532, 551, 579 Refuse Burning in England and the United States, (85)
Destruction and Electricity, 397 Destructors for Lima, (345) Destructor, Stoke-on-Trenfr, (445) Destructor, Stourbridge. (583)
Disposal of Municipal, Mr. R. Hering bn, 538
Rfcioforced Concrete Beams, Flexure of, 295 ‘CRevue Franco-Anglaise,” (406)
Reynolds, Professor Osborne, Subscription for Portrait, (111)
Richards and Sons, Messrs. William, Business Converted into Limited Liability Concern,
. (217)
R'ght to Break-up Streets, The, By a Legal Contributor, 79, 101
Ripple Marks and Sand Dunes, Professor George Darwin on, 212
R'pples, Sand, Mrs, Ayrton on the Origin of, 210 Rivet Furnace, Portable, Mr. R. Hudson, 453 Rivets, Their Importance in Steel Steamships, (521)
Rmds, Extraordinary Traffic on Public, 363
in France, Construction of, M. Forestier on, 561
in Greece, (546)
Roller, Wood Fuel Steam, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 402
for Running of Motor Cars, Cost of Making, Lord Iveagh’s and Mr, Pirrie’s Scheme Rejected, (205'
in Spain, Law of Local, (276)
Steam Traction on Common, 447 Roberts, Richard, 454
Robinson, Mr. Joseph, (303)
Rogers, Sir Halle well, Knighthood Conferred on, (121)
Roller Attachment for T-squares, (380)
Axle-boxes, 504
Bearings, Houldsworth, 44, (96)
Oil Road, Messrs. J, G. Allen and Co., 327
AVcod Fuel Steam Road, Clayton and Shnttleworth, 402
Ropes Made from the Caroa Plant Rival Manila, (230)
Royal Agrlcultupal Society’s Show: Engine, Light Traction, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Limited, 17
Light Traction, Foden, Limited, 17 Oil, Blackstone’s, 16
Oil, The Gothic Two-cycle, 16, 17 Leader on, 317
Milk-drying Machine, Just-Hatmaker, James Milne and Sms, 16
Monthly Meeting of the Council of the Society, (131)
Next Year’s Show, Question of, (571)
Petrol Agricultural Tractor, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, 42
Wagon, Steam, and Engine for same, Boraford and Kvershed, Limited, 16

Royal College of Science, 1903:

(46)

Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal:

318, 363, 388, 417
Royal Arsenal Association of Foremen, Woolwich:
Examples of Modern Machine Work, Mr. J. Pickin, 529
rte-armament of the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery, Firms between Work will be Divided, (621)

Royal Indian Engineering Coopers Hill:

{16i)

Royal Institution :

Christmas Lectures for Juvenile (476)
General Monthly Meeting, (48), (485)
Royal Meteorologrical Society:
Fog in London during Recent Years, Decrease of, Mr. F. J. Brodie, (527)
Prince of Wales becomes Patron, (11)

Royal Mint:

Annual Report, 84

Royal School of Mines:

504

Royal Society, Edinburg*h :

Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Awarded to Sir James Dewar, (546)
Statutory Annual Meeting, Members Elected, ?(419)

Royal Society:

Awards of Medals for this Year, (479)
Royal Sanitary Institute:
Sefi Institute, Sanitary

RUBBER Gathering in New Guinea, (621)
Running Powers over Tramways, 38
Rusting of Hoops on Wooden Water Tanks, (471)

ST, LOUIS Exhibition—Sep Sub-index under Exkibilidtia
Salaries of Engineers in New A^ork, (571)
Salen, New Pier, (571)
Salt Production, Utah, (61)
“ Saltley ” Lathe Carrier, 551
Sand Dunes, Ripple Marksand, Prof. Geo. Darwin on,212
Lime Brick Plants in America, (521) Kippies, Mrs. iVjrtou on the Origin of, 210 Sanitary Inspectors in Manchester Suburbs, 188 Sanitary Inspectors, Proposal that the London County Council should Pay Half the Salaries of, (393)
Saw, Horizontal Log Band, Messrs. A. Ransome and Co.. 273, 398
Japanese Wood, (276)
Multiple Band, Mr. E. Mairhead’s, 366 Scheelite in British Columbia Deposits of, (134) Secret Commissions, 131
Sewage Earm, Walsall, (646),
Lifts at Douglas, 116
Plant, Notes on, (592)
Purification of, 344, (597), 629 Works, Managers of, (608) Newcastle-under-Lyme, (239) Small, 132, 133
Disposal, Hanley, 577
and Water Purification in Paris, Mr. Bechmann on, 538
Royal Commission on, 348, 363, 388, 417
Scarborough, (546) Sheffield, (97), 285, (607) Shere, (445)
Scheme, Derby, Sum to be Borrowed, (697)
Saxmundham, (571)
Sheffield, New, (285) Waterborne, Johannesburg, (216)
Shaft Sinking in New Zealand, Rapid, (182)
Shanghai Waterworks December 16zA, 1904), 602, 603
Shears, Circular, 322, 353
Sheffield, The Master Cutler of, 168
Sewege Disposal, 97, 235, 607 University College, (534), 571
Shelford and Son, Messrs., Dinner* to their
London Staff, (86)

Shipbuilding*, Naval and Mercantile, British:

Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Launch of the Adventure, (286)
Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Orders for Brazilian Navy, (471), (555)
Barrow, (20)
British and Eoreign, 39
Channel Paddle Steamers for the London and North-Western Railway, John Brown and Co., (240)
Clyde Returns for August, October, November, (229). (240), 441, (458), (556)
Clydebank Works, New Vessel for the Cunard Line. (11)
Cunarders, New, (11), (35)
Devonport Dockyard, Lady Tracers to be Em- loyed in, (498)
English, (299). (621), (634)
Harland and Wollf. Machinery and Boilers for New Cruiser, (445)
Lloyd’s Register, Returns, September 30bh, 1904, (393)
Naval Architecture in Great Britain during Last Ten Years, Sir Wm. H. White, 561
Naval Construction, Mr. J. H. Biles on, (583)
North-East Coast, Wages Dispute, (534), (546), (555), (584), (621), (634)
North of England, (379), (431), (467), (471), (507), (534), (546), (555), (584), (621), (634) North of England, Orders Secured by Leading Firms in December, (607)
Orders for Brazilian Navy, (471), (655),
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Annual Report, (286); Strike, (264), (333); Works Closed, (356); Admiralty Order Secured, (379)
Progress of Warships and Machinery Building in England, 27—for last article under this heading see Vol. xevi., p. 2)
Propulsion of Ships, Del Proposto System for the, (445)
Prospects for the Winter, (431)
Rivets Used in the Caronia, (521)
Scotch in August, (299): September, (393): November, (621)
Screw Propellers, Arthur Rigg, 185
Screw Propulsion, Problem of, 43
Shipbuilding Berths at Hebburn, Messrs. R,
Stephenson and Co., 390
Structural Details, Experiments on some (Pamphlet issued by Lloyd’s Register), 627 Thames Service, Passenger Steamers for the. (379)
Torpedo Boat Construction, Mr. H. E. Yarrow on, (582)
Trade very Discouraging, Quarterly Report of the Associated Shipwrights’ Society, (134) Turbine Cross-Channel Steamers, South-Eastern and Chatham Company’s, (230)
Tyne, (471)
Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Orders for Brazilian Navy, (471), (555); Admiralty Orders, Ten Submarines of B Class, (621), (633)
Warships under Construction, September 30th 1904,(393) ’

Shipbuilding: Naval and Mercantile, Foreign:

American, 232
Belgian Cross-Channel Turbine Steamers, (571) Brazil Navy, Reorganisation Bill, Authorising Contracts with Foreign Shipyards for New Warships, (419)
Brazilian Programme, The New, 453 French Motor Boat Race, Official, (498)
Navy List, Ships Removed from, 453 Ten Defensive Submarines of a New
Type Ordered, (498)
German, 63, 448
Battleship “P” Laid Down, 453
Vulcan Yard, Stettin, Large Steamer for the Hamburg-American Line. (393) ’
Italian Government, Torpedo Pursuers Ordered at the Schichau Works by, (432)
Japan, Submarines Supposed to be for, 453 Russia, Model Yard for Naval Construction (498), (501)
Screw Propeller, A Brazilian Engineer’s, (419)
Sweden, Gunboats, Torpedo Boat, and Submarine Building, (419)
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Egret, Steam Fishing Vessel, Internal Corrosion of Boiler, 115
Japanese, Mikasa, 532
Japanese, Yoshima, 475
Lloyd’s Register, Statistical Summary of Vessels Totally Lost, Condemned, &c., 1903, (299)
Lloyd’s Register of Vessels Lost, Condemned, &c., April, May, June, (521)
Russian, Novik, 332
Russian, Tsarevitch, 532
Swedish Battleship Aground, 247

Shipping News, Various, British and Foreign:

Admiralty’s Decision Respecting the Employment of Modern Cruisers on Gunnery Instructional Duties, (521)
Admiralty, Naval Cadets, Examination for, 273
Apollo Class, Fate of the, 601
Austrian Navy, The, 168
Board of Trade Return, British and Foreign Ships Provisionally Detained as Unsafe from Various Causes, (205)
British and Foreign Vessels Entered at Ports in the United Kingdom, (35)
Coaling at Sea, (471), 475
Colliers under Observation, (584)
Comparison Prepared by Mr, N. Hill as to the Number of Steerage Passengers which might be Carried by the Same Vessel Sailing under Different Flags, (370)
Cruisers to be Employed on Gunnery Instructional Duties, (521)
Discovery, Antarctic Exploration Steamer, for Sale, 575
Draught of Moving Steamers, 209
Draught of Ships in Motion in Relatively Shallow Water Greater than when at Rest, (571)
Dynamics of a Ship Launch, 449
French Marine, The, 624
Mercantile Marine, Annuaire of the, (111)
Naval Reform, 396
German Merchant Marine, 116
German, Spandauer Shipping Company, Service of Passenger Steamers on the Elbe and Spree, (230)
Hamburg, Number and Registered Tonnage of Ships which Visited the Port of, 1903, (11)
Home Fleet, The, 453
Japanese Ports in 1903, Aggregate Tonnage of Merchant Shipping under all Flags Entered at, (276)
Japan’s Sea Power, 352
Lloyd’s Register of Vessels Lost, Condemned, &c., April, May, June, (521)
Mediterranean Fleet, The Reconstructed, 601 Montreal, Total Tonnage, (521)
Motor Boat Trials, (111), 166, (571)
Motor Lifeboat to ba Placed at Newhaven, (230)
Navy Target Practice, U.S.A., Regulations for, 6
Russian and Japanese Fleets, Steaming Powers of the, 60
Russian '‘Volunteer Fleet,” The, (597)
Screw Propellers, Arthur Rigg, 186
Brazilian Engineer’s, (419) Experiments on, at Cornell University, (85)
Sheffield, Mr. J-. H. Biles on “ Ships.” (583) Steam Trials of Modern Warships, 473
Steam Vessel, The Oldest in Existence, (61)
Steaming Powers of the Russian and Japanese Fleets, 60
Stern Submerged Tubes, 601
Swedish Navy, Strength of the, (419)
Training Squadron, The New, 601
Turbine as a Means of Marine Propulsion in the United States, (85)
Turbines, Parsons and Curtis, Competitive Trials, 453
Tyne, Idle Steamers in the, (521)
United States, Attempt to Wreck the Connecticut, 423
Navy Department, Oil Fuel Burners, 549
Navy Estimates, and Officers and Men Needed for Manning all the Vessels Building,
Warships, Great Sale of, 601
Warships to come Home every Two Years. (498) Workshops at Sea, 601

Ships: Battleships, British:

Africa, Armour for, (655); Propeller Shafts for, (583)
Britannia, (597), (655) Cu'sar, 332, (652)
Commonwealth, Official Trials, 42
Dominion, (20), (217), (457)
Goliath Repaired, (286)
Hannibal, 501
Hibernia, (655)
King Edward VIL, 439, 475, 549, 601
Lord Mayor, 115
Lord Nelson, 115
Lord Nelson, Rumours about 225, (370)
New Zealand, 332
Prince of Wales, 12, 15, (475)
Repulse, (HI)
Swiftsure, 115, 652
Triumph, 115, (453), 520, 522, .
Two New, the Largest ever Built, Tenders Received by the Admiralty, (309), (310), (370)
A'enerable, World’s Record in Priza Firing, (35)

Ships: Battleships, Foreign:

Brazil, Three Ordered for, (471) French, Amiral Tr^houart, 453
Carnot, 625
Patrie, 656 German, Deutschland, 115, 525, (549), 618, 619
Kaiser, 115, 525, (549)
Kiinig Wilhelm, 115, (549)
Kurfiirst Friedrich Wilhelm, 115
Lotheringen, (11)
“N” Class, 247, 549 “P,” 115, 453 Weissembourg, 115 Wurth, 115
Italian, Regina Margherita, 115
Vittorio Emanuele HL, 572, 575 Japanese, Hei Yen, 375
Mikasa, 532
Yoshima, 475, 652
Russian, Rurik, 185, 247
Tsarevitch, 185, 532
Swedish, Tapperhetan, 247 llnited States, Connecticut, (345)
Georgia, 453
Idaho, (370) Louisiana, (230) Mississippi, (370) Nebraska, 449, 453
New Hampshire, 115, 601 New Jersey, (546)
New Type under Consideration, (299)

Ships: Cruisers, British:

Arrogant, 95
Black Prince (Supplementf Deceuiber 30//z, 1904), 247, 368, 369, 391, (393), (432), 470, 643, 644
Cornwall, (345), (501)
Cressy, 375, 391
Cumberland, 652
Defence, 185, (625)
Drake, has no Mechanical Arrangements or Stoking Indicators, 453
Formidable, 349
Hogue, 349, 391
Isis, 601
Medea, 15
Minotaur, 185
Minotaur Class, (247)
Monmouth, 95
Natal, (20). (655)
Nelson, 575
Northampton, her Destination, 575
Orion, 185
Powerful, 549
Royal Sovereign, (655)
St. George, 575, 601
Sapphire, (286)
Shannon, 185, 625
Spartan, Visit to Cardiff and Criticism of, (218)
Terrible, 15,524, 532, 549, 551, 579, 628, 651,(655)
Theseus, 501
Topaze, (521)

Ships: Cruisers, Foreign:

French, “C 17,” 652
D apetit Thouars, 625
Edgar Qainet, 280, 375, 652
Gambetta, 225, 280 Penan, 375
German, Roon, 115
Japanese, Kasnga, 446, 451, 652 Nisshin, 446, 451 Otawa, 652 Yayeyama, 652
Russian, Novik, 332
1'nited States, Alternative Design for the Two New, (646)
Colorado, 115, (253), (521), 575
Cruiser Squadron, (646) Maryland, 651 Montana, (370), 601 New Carolina, 115, (253), (371), 601
New, (182), (370)
Pennsylvania, 625 Tennessee, (621)
Torpedo Craft, Destroyers, Gunboats Scouts, Submarines.
British:
Destroyers, Ardent, 391 Boxer, 391 Chamois, 391 Dragon, 391 Exe Class, 15
Scouts, Adventure Launched, (286) Attentive, (521) Forward Launched, (230) Pathfinder, Cammell, Laird and Co., (73), 96
Patrol, (378) Sentinel, (20), (655)
Submarine A 1, 96
Submarine Bl, (419), (521), (621), (625)

Ships: Torpedo Craft, Destroyers, Gun boats, Scouts, Submarines. British

Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Delivered to the Admiralty, (286) Boat, Motor, to be Built, (35) Gunboats with Small - tube Boilers for Training Stokers, (41?)
Turbine-propelled, \ arrow and Co., 72
Tox'pedo Craft, Destroyers, Gunboats, Scouts, Submarines.

Ships: Torpedo Craft, Destroyers, Gun boats, Scouts, Submarines. Foreign:

Austrian, River Monitor, Temes and Badrog, 225
Austrian Torpedo Boat Flotilla, Reconstruction of, (182)
Chilian, Submarine Utzua Cruzat, (453) Dutch Torpedo Boats, Successful Trials of, Tangka, Wajung and Smeroe, (453) French Submarines, Additional Station . for, at Calais, ! (157)
Regulations for Service on Board, (157)
Alose, (419)
Emeraude, Opale and Ruble, (646) Emeraude Type, Fitted with New Type of Accumulator, (276) of 100 Tons Displacement Designed by Marquis de Dion, 1182)
X Launched, (546), 625
M. Lauboeuf’s Flans for, (276) Ordered at Cherbourg, (443)
French Torpedo Boat No. 294 Driven by a Breguet Turbine, (276)
French Torpedo Gunboat Condor, 625 German Torpedo Boat Trials, (276) Italian Submarine Delfino, (253) .lapan, Submarines Supposed to be for, (453)
Swedish Submarine Hayem, 115
United States, Holland Submarine Boat Fulton, (85)
Scout Birmingham, Arming of 115, (253) _
Scout Chester, Arming of, 115, (253)
Salem, Arming of, 115, (253)

Ships: Mercantile, Passenger, and Various. British:

Admiralty Yacht Enchantress, (546) Allan Liner Virginian, 649
British India Steam Navigation Company, Steamer of 12,000-Tons, Messrs. Wm. Doxford and Son, (217)
Canada, Fisheries Cruiser, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 202, 203
Coal Steamers, Cardiff, (286)
Cunarder, The Caronia, (11). (35), 59 ; Number of Rivets Used in Her, (521)
Dredgers, 420, 428, (497), 520, (521), 530, 544,(546)
Dafferin, The, Troopship, Vickers, Sons and Maxim, (607)
Ftiihling System Hopper Dredger Thames, (497)
Tee-breakers for Canada, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co,, (170) Motor Boat Race, The Mediterranean, (597), (621) Boat Trials, 165 Yacht, Hummono, 332
Screw Steamer, Port Kingston. Messrs. Elder, Dempster and Co., (218)
Steam Dredger Vulcan, Messrs. Ferguson Brothers, 420, 428
Steamer and Accommodation Boat and Officers’ Inspection Boat, Bengal Canal, 641
Thames Steamboats,The London County Council and, (253), 423, 427, 449, 541, 579, 620
Troopship Dufferin Launched, (285) Turbine Atlantic Liners, 649
Steamers, Cross-Channel, South- Eastern and Chatham Company, (230)
Steamer, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., (182), (217), (333)
Steamer Loongana, Average Speed, (471)
White Star Liner Baltic, (11)
White Star Liner Persic, Record Trip, (134)

Ships: Mercantile, Passenger, and Various. Foreign:

Austrian Yacht, Made of Paper, (546) Danish Train Ferries, 550
French, Automobile Vedette, the Neva, with Explosion Motor, (546) Coast Defence Ship Fnrieux, (111)
German Atlantic Lines, Organisation of Competition Lines against the Cunard and the Adria, (230) Gas Engine Launch, 25 Horsepower, 389
Hamburg - America, Fifteen New Steamers Ordered, (546), (597)
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Ship now Building at the Vulcan Works to go ^’aster than the Cunarders, (276)
North German Liner Kaissr Wilhelm II., Record Voyages and Number of Passengers, ('211). (370)
United States, Allan Line, Ocean Newspapers, (182)
Peary’s New Arctic Vessel, 416. 423
Augustus B. Wolvin, (134)
Gasoline-driven Pleasure Craft, (370)
Glass-bottomed Pleasure Boats. (253)
Knapp Roller Boat to be Remodelled, (230)
Lake Steamers, (471), 475
Largest Perry Boats in the, (621)
Steel Vessel, Interior Furnished like a Pullman Car, (471)
Turbine Steamer for Passenger Service on the Lakes, (471)

SHIP-WORMS on Australian Hardwoods, Ravages of, 418*
Shoe and Leather Fair, The, 451
Sicily, Municipal Trading in, (134)
Silver Bullion, Average Price Paid for, by the Royal Mint, (61)
Simplon Tunnel, Hot Springs and the, 179, 244, 341, 385, 415, 488. 489, 568
Singer Company’s Work, Extension of the, 265 Skerne Works, Sale of, (98)
Smith, Mr. W. Ford, 349

Smithfield Show

Agricultural Engines, 578
Light Tractors and Motor Wagons, Exhibitors of, 578
Oil Engines, Exhibitors of, 578
Road Locomotives, 578
Swath Turners, Mr. T M. Jarmain and Mr. R. Maynard, 578

Society of Arts:

Meetings Previous to Christmas and during January, (478\ (625)

Society, Bradford Engineering:

Commercial Aspects of Power Plants in Factories, Mr. H. W. Morley, 531
Electric Driving in Works and Factories, Advantages of, Mr. G. H. Bowden, 606
Future of the Steam Engine, Professor G. F. Charnock, 401
Steel in Modern Buildings, Use of, Professor John Goodman, (430), 531
Transmission of Power by Ropas, Mr. Edwin Kenyon, 619

Society of Civil Engineers, American ;

Destruction of a Mississippi Bridge by Wind, Mr. C. A. P. Turner, 590

Society, Coventry Engineering:

Visit to Messrs, Willans and Robinson’s Works. 115

Society, Crystal Palace Old Students’:

(451)

Society of Engineers:

Conversazione, 506
Jubilee of, (240)
Members Elected, Premiums Awarded, 608
Next Ordinary Meetiner, Paper to be Read by _Mr. R. G. Allanson-Winn, (331)
Visit to the Portland Cement Works of Martin, Earle and Co., Limited, 22
to Yarrow and Co.’s Works, (110) to Broad wood and Son’s Factory, (363)

Society of Engineers, Amalgamated:

Alterations of Rules, Proposed, (393)

Society, Glasgow Technical College, Scientific:

Annual Dinner, (619)

Society, Glasgow University Engineering:

Presidential Address of Mr. Charaen, 484
Sewage Plant, Notes on, Mr. A. H. Morton. (592)
Syllabus of Remaining Meetings for Present Session, (467)

Society, Faraday:

Electric Furnace, Mr. A. Miuet, (654)
Electrolytic Analysis of Cobalt and Nickel, Dr. F. M. Perkin and Mr. W. C. Prebble, (654)
Electrolytic Preparation of Tin Paste, Mr. F Gelstharp, (654)
To Publish its Own Transactions, (402)
Paper to be Read October 25th, (406)

Society, Leeds University Engineering :

French Foundry Practice, Mr. G. H. Attock. (532)
Maximum Efficiency of Boilers without Injuring them. Difficulty of Attaining, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, (620)
Newcastle High-level Bridge, Mr. J. H. Walker, (643)

Society, Liverpool Engineering:

Opening Meeting, Programme for Succeeding Meetings, (425)

Society of Mechanical Engineers, American:

Water-tube Boilers: Cause and Remedies, Bad Case of Discharge of Water with Steam from, A. Bsment, 604, 630

Society, Physical:

High-frequency Alternator, Mr. W. Duddell, 630
Measurement of Small Differences of Phase, Dr. W. E, Sumpner, 632
Pacific Cable, Retardation of Signalling Current
on, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 625

Society, Rontgen:

Ordinary General Meeting, Presid ential Address, (430)

Society, Rugby Engineering :

Metric System, Discussion on, (334)

SODA and Magnesia Lakes in Wyoming, (230) South African Mining and the Inventor, 322, 352 Southport, Sewage Purification Scheme, (546)
Spain, Law of Local Hoads in, (276)
Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, Robert H. Smith, 25
Speed Indicator, Milner’s, 551
Spezia, Drainage Scheme for, (61), (134)
Spring Testing Machine, The Reavell Pneumatic, 44
Standard Times for India, The Government’s Proposal, (553)
Starr Brass Indicator, 479
Steam Cost Appropriation, (453)
Engines—see Engines
Exhaust, Utilisation of, in Steam Turbines, M. L. Battu on, 455
Pipe Coverings, 70, 110, 131, 156 for Power, Gas, Oil, and, 377, 403
Power Plant, Design and Test of a Modern, 107, 118, 119 ; Mr. E. G. Hiller (Leader referring to the same), (113)
Production, Cheap, 629, 651
Specific Heat of Superheated, Robert H. Smith, 25
Superheated, and Reheaters, Mr. L. S. Marks, 29
Traction on Common Roads, 447, 467, 479 Trap, Water Seal, 504

Steel:

Agreement with Regard to Selling Prices, Question of an, (370)
Aluminium Used in Pouring Chrome Steel to Destroy the Oxide Formed, (521)
American Steel and Wire Company’s Works, Cleveland, 514
Basic Bessemer Works, Neuves Maisons, France, (323); Manipulation of Ladle by Overhead Cranes Worked by Electric Motors, (323)
Bridge Syndicate in Germany, 256
Building, Concrete (Hennebique System), Ottawa, (157)
Chimney, The Highest in America, (621) Chimney, 230ft. High, (253)
Chrome-Vanadium, Heat Treatment Experiments with, Captain H. R, Sankey and Mr. J. K, Smith, 615, 623
Commercial Sheet, for Armature Construction, Mr. T. S. Allen’s Tests, (111)
Conference of North of England and West of Scotland Steelmakers on the Question of Underselling, (393)
Cutting, High Speed, Emery Wheel for, (276)
Electric Furnace for Production of, at Work in Sweden, (323)
Failure, A Mysterious, Letters on, 306
Foreign, in England, 14
Fracture of Structural, under Alternating Stresses, John Oliver Arnold, 227, 248, 308 {see also 255, 277)
German, Imported into England, (370) High-speed, Its Development and Use, Mr.
Gledhill, 464, 482
Ideal, 18
Imported into England from America and Belgium, (334)
Indentation Tests on, M. Guillory on, 426
Industry, United States, Important Move in the, made by the United States Shipbuilding Company, (356)
Initial Stress in, 277, 331
Leader on, 255
Manufacture of, Mr. Bradley Stoughton, 537 Open-hearth Process, Its Advantages over the Bessemer Process, (134)
Open-hearth, Statistics of Production in 1903, (370)
Plate Convention, A British, 422
Plates and Tubes, Advantages of Nickel over Carbon, (134)
Prices, 4. Working Basis of, to be Agreed on, (323),
Protection of, from Corrosion, New York Navy Yard, (253)
Rail Combination, International, (431)
Steel Work for Docks in South America, Important Contract obtained by the Patent Shaft Company, (521)
Structure of High-speed, 90
Syndicate, German, Its Functions, (111), 256;
its Troubles, 114
Projected, by English Firms, (471)
A World-wide, 600
Tank, Large, for Canada, (97) Temperatures of Transformation of, (419)
Test, High-speed, at St. Louis Exhibition, (323)
Tester, Prof. Arnold’s, 308
Testing, Prof. Unwin on, 187
Tests, Model, 648
Tons of. Produced in Great Britain, Germany, and America for every 100 Tons of Pig, (323)
Tools, High-speed, (479)
Tool, A Remarkable Test of, (571)
Trade, Depression in, (323)
Twist Drills and Milling Cutters, H’gh-speed, Cammell, Laird and Co., 110
United States, First Accounts of the Susquehanna Iron and Steel Company, 549
Unit Stresses for Structural, Tendency towards Higher, (61)
Use of, in Modern Buildings, Professor John Goodman, 531
Used in Construction of Coal-storage Plant, New York Navy Yard, (230)
Vanadium, 18, 235, 615, 623
Works in America, Weight of I.ump or Gravel Fluorspar used as a Flux in, (393) Belgian, their Position, 548 at Jarrow Closed, (323)
of the Maryland Company, Sparrow’s Point, 642

STEPHENSON, Sir Henry, (235)
Stewart, Mr. Dnnean, 478
Stone, Artificial Building, made from Infusorial Earth, (345)
Stott, Mr. Chas., (279)
Strains and Annealing, Mr. W. Campbell, 65
Stresses in Thin Cylinders subjected to Internal Pressure, by A. T. Weston, 298
Suction Gas Plant, Efficiency of a, 532
Sugar in Madeira, The llinton-Naudet Process for the Manufacture of, (299)
Sulphur Mining Industry, The Sicilian, and Exports to other Countries, (111)
Superheated Steam and Re-heaters, Mr. L. S. Marks, 29
Superheated Steam, Specific Heat of, R. II. Smith, 25

Supplements:

Engine and Boiler-houses, llinksford Pumping Station, South Staffordshire Water works, July 22nd, 1904
7500 I.H.P. Triple-expansion, Messrs. Scott and Co., July 1st, 1904
of H.M. Cruiser Black Prince, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, December 30th, 1904
Tandem Compound Drop Valve, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, September 2ad, 1904
High-speed, Special Supplement, -- 4th, 1904, i.-xvi.
Eight-wheels Coupled Goods, Queensland Government Railways, Mr. August Sth, 1904
Four-coupled Passenger, London -and North-Western, Mr. G. Whale, October 14th, 1904
Mallet Duplex Compound, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, the American Locomotive Company, September 16th and October 7th, 1904
Narrow-gauge, Mexican Railways, Kerr, Stuart and Co., Limited, December 2nd, 1904
Pumping Engine, High Duty, Shanghai Waterworks, Manlove, Alliott and Co., December 16th, 1904
Pumping Plant, Chatham Dockyard, Messrs, Hayward-Tyler and Co., November 18th 1904

SWITZERLAND, Machinery and Vehicles Imported, 1903,(597)
Sydney Harbour Bridge, 153, 154, 155 Syndicates, Steel, (111), (114), 256, (471), 600 Syphon, Non-metallic, (625)

TAILINGS Elevators, South Africa, (430)
Taps in America, Standard Siz2s Acreed on for, (35)
Tar Coal, Packing cf, in Sawdust, (157)
Tariff Commission, The, 86, 89, 121, 137, (432), 478, 529, 603
Tariff Commission and the Iron and Steel Trade?, 86—see pp. 289, 293, vol. xcvii.
Technical College and School of Pottery at Stoke- on-Trent, Proposed Establishment of, (205), 239
Technical Education in England and Wales, 1902-3, Sum Spent on, (546)

Telegraphy:,

Cable from Sitka, Alaska, South, (253)
Iceland and the Faroe Island, (230)
Pacific Cable, Conference Concerning, (182) Professor Ayrton on, (feo) ?Report on the Year’s Working, (205)
Patents for, taken out in ths United State?, (253)
PoUak-Virag Rapid Telegraph, The, 596
Sahara, French Telegraph Line Across the Great, (323), (345)
Wireless, America, Another Stride in, (498) between Buffalo and Cleveland, (157) between Poldhu and Bari, (646) Board’s Report to the United States Navy, (521)
Da Forest System, Message Sant from Chicago to St. Louis, (370)
Drawback connected with, (11) Marconi, Experiments near Petersburg by means of Portable Apparatus, (205)
National Control of, (471)
No Station may be Established without a Licence from the Postmaster- General, (205)
Stations in France, (498)
Station at Porquerolles, (546) Station at South Shields, (182) United States, Control of the Government’s Coastal System
Awarded to the Navy Department, (134)
Unsuccessful Attempt made by the Indian Government, (471)
War Service, Inaugurated, the Thne.s, (419)
and the Eastern Telegraph Company, (157)

Telephony:

English Towns to France, (182)
Glasgow Corporation Accounts for the Year, (111)
Korea, and in China, (11)
Liverpool and the National Telephone Company, (182)
London, Underground System, (571)
Petersburg, Underground Wires, (205)
Tunno's in Chicago, Novel Use for the, (498)

Tenders:

Belgian, for Steel Tramway Rails, Accepted by Yarmouth Town Council, (597)
Invited in Brazil, (203)
Invited for Rasps and Files by the Royal Norwegian Naval Authorities, (521)
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company Invite, for Turbine Steamer, (61)

TESTING Machine, 600,000 lb., (471)
Testing Machine, 300-Ton Universal, Joshua Buckton and Co., 236, 237, 248
Thames, Proposed Barrage of the, 249
Thermo-dynamic Problem, A, 651
Thermometers, Sensitive Platinum, Difficulty in Constructing, (370)
Thomas, jun., Mr. John, (625)
Thorium Nitrate for Gas Mantles Imported into the United States, (419)
Thrisbiog Machine, An Old, 454
Thrashing Machines, British and American, Imported into Damascus, (276)
Tides and Currents in Canadian Waters, Survey of, 34
Timber, Jarrah, Ravages of Shipworms on, 418 Piles to Concrete, Adhesion of, 167
The United Kingdom Russia’s Bsst Customer for, (205)
Tin-Aluminium Alloy, Behaviour of a Filed and Unfiled Rod of, when Plunged in Cold Water, (253)
in Canadi, Discovery of, (230) Sorap, K'octrolytic Methods of Treating, 5, 131
Todd, Major, 106
Ton Weight in the United States ? What is a, (323)
Tool Grinder, 5C4
Tools, Pneumatic, 209
Torquay, Regulation of the Use of Locomotives on the Roads, 389

Trade:

Australian Trade Marks, 427
Belgium, Gun Barrels sent to Birmingham from Liege to be Tested that they may Get the Birmingham Mark, (299)
Bradford, American Consul’s Returns for July, Total of Exports, (157)
Civil Engineers and our Export, R. L., 110 ; A Manufacturer, 131 ; Manufacturing Engineers, 186
Consulting Engineers and our Export, 278 Control of Prices, The, 298
Cotton, American and Egyptian, Imported at Manchester, (597)
Dumping, 279
Expenditure, Supervision and Control cf, 51,
no
Export, Consulting Engineers and our, 278
France’s Exports to the United Kingdom and Belgium, and Imports from the United Kingdom and United States, (445)
France’s Trade with her Colonies and Foreign Countries, (445)
Korea, Foreign, (85)
Machinery, Metals, Imported into Russia, 1903, (299)
Riga, (299)
and Science, 160
Steel, Depression, (323)
Switzerland, Machinery and Vehicles Imported into, (597)
Tariff Commission, 86, 89, 121, 137, (432), 478, 529, 603

Trade and Business Announcements:

22, 48, 98, 170, 192, 218, 241, 265, 287, 310, 334, 381, 406, 430, 458, 484, 508, 557, 584, 634, 656
Trades Union Congress at Leeds, Agenda, (230)
Traffic on Public Roads, Extraordinary, 333
Transvaal, Commercial Aspect in the, 319 Trust Legislation in Germany, 294
United States, Sound Condition of the General Business of, (393)
Weights and Measures, British Mode of Giving, A Constant Cause of Complaint with Foreign Buyers, (230)

TRUCK, Barrel, 93
Trust Legislation iu Germany, 294 T-squares, Roller Attachment for, (380)

Tramways, Electric and other:

Accounts, Report by the Comptroller of the, (35)
Bath, (445)
Belfast, (597)
Birmingham, (370), 374. (445), (471)
Bournemouth, Sunday Observance, (571)
Bradford. (621)
British, Municipalisalion of, (323)
Buenos Ayres and Belgrano, (370); Mr. E, L. Gordon’s Invention, (370)
Car Wheels and Rails, Cost and Maintenance of, Mr. A. N. Bannister, (452)
Centre Poles on. Board of Trade’s Regulations Respecting, (182)
Cheap Trains Act, Mr. Forbes, Evidence, (85) Coal Mines, Electric in, (297)
Colchester, (621)
Compmition with Railways, 352
Coventry, (20)
Davenport and District, (182)
Dover, (318), (498), (521). (554)
Economics of Electric Tramways in Britain, Jtobt. H. Smith, 461
Edinburgh and District, Appointment of Mr. Holden, (571)
Electric, in Coal Mines, (297) System Promoted by the Middlesex
County Council, 201 Traction of Coal, Tunstall, (297) without Rails, 274
Exeter, (498)
Finsbury Park to Wood Green, Official Inspection, (85)
Geneva, (621)
Genoa and Suburbs, Mileage of, (134)
Germany, Electric Traction Introduced into, Tweniy-five ^ ears Ago, (323)
Glasgow Corporation, Mr, Jas. Dalrymple, Manager, (393)
Glasgow, iVofita and Revenue, (11), 147 ; Power Consumption of, (253)
Gordon, Mr. E. L., Ills Invention Tried at Palermo, (370)
Goulding, Mr. W. J., Baronetcy Conferred on, (11)
Hythe and Sandgate, (157)
India-rubber Gloves, Use of, 619
Kief Station, Diesel JCngines at, (276)
Loeds, Half-year’s Accounts, (419)
Leith, (445)
Lifeguard of a Tramcar at Preston, Life Saved by, (182)
Live Rail, Dangers of the, 207, 235, 307, 345, 370, 421, 619 ; Use of India-rubber Gloves, 619
Liverpool, (134), (299). (370)
London County Council, Blackfriars - road and Westminster Bridge-road, Proposed, (393), (546), (621)
Rosebery Avenue, (498)
Roof Covers for Electric Cars, (157); Mileage Run by the, (370)
London, Deptford, and Greenwich Undertaking, Price of, (577)
Metropolitan, 166, 182, 501, (571) S^uth, Conduit, Brixton and Streatham Branch, 290, 291
United, Fifteen Miles of New Lines Authorised, (546)
Loien(jo Marques, (276)
Madeleine-Colombes, Overhead Electric, (182) Newcastle Corporation and the Tyneside Tramways, Dispute between, (85), (230)
Newcastle, Manager’s Resignation, (419)
New South Wales, 350
North Metropolitan, Dividend, Mileage Run, Traffic, (157)
Northampton Corporation, 150
North Shields and Newcastle, (230)
Norwich, Tramway Companies and Roadway Repairs, 91
Passengers and Speed Indicators, 327
Permanent Way for, Mr. C. T. Taylor on, 554 ; Mr. A. N. Connett on, 575
Peru and Chilo, (345)
Preston, Specification, 106; Completion of the System, (111)
Ribble Estuary, near Lytham, Financial Difficulties Overcome, Transporter Bridge Ordered, (253)
Rio de Janeiro, (419)
Royton and Crompton, (498)
Running Powers over, 37
Salford Corporation, Length of, (111)
Savoy, Aiguille de Gotiter, (253)
Sheffield, (370), (646), (649)
South Coast, Ramsgate to Hastings, vid Dover, Folkestone, (345)
Speed Allowances on Light Railways and, Mr, A. R, Fearnley, (452)
Surface Contact, Leader on, 326
Swinton, (157)
Teddington and Ealing, Question of the Noise Caused by Tramcars, (393)
Tracks Treated with Crude Oil by the Oakland Transit Company, (157)
Tram and Road Car of the Future, Mr. A. Clark on the, (571)
Tramways and Light Railways Association, (258), 4C6, 452
Tyneside, Electric Traction on, 274, 282
Tyneside Company’s Cars Ssen in Newcastle for the First Time, (230)
Wicklow to the Quays, (11)
Wolverhampton, (74)
Yarmouth, Belgian Rails for, (597)
Yarmouth, Rebate on the Charge for Electric Energy Supplied to, (621)

“TUBE MILL,” The “Chinese” and the, (285)
Tube Mill in the Transvaal, The, 246
Tunnels, Chicigo River, Lowering, (35) Contracts, Big, (133)
Greenwich Footway, its Cost, (621)
Hot Springs and the Simplon, 179, 244, 341, 385, 415, 488,489, 568
Ratcliff-Rotherhithe, (230)
Under the Elbe at Hamburg, Projected, (11), (182)
Underihe River, Chicago, (276)
Tunnelling through Water-bearing Strata, 43

Turbines:

and Water-wheels, Mr. G. S. Williams on, 537
Curtis, Steam, 3, 61, (85), 639
De Laval, Steam, 3 i
Different Conditions Existing in Steam and Water, (571)
Efficiency, 187, 235, 252
Efficiency ? Student, 187 ; R. H. Smith, 235
Fractional Supply Steam, Improvements in 410
Frictional Losses in Steam, 331
Gas, Scientific Investigation into the Possibilities of the, Mr. Neilson, 414, 422, 429
Holzworfch, 589
Letter from J. A. S. on, (19)
Parsons-Westinghouse, Steam, 639
Potential Efficiency of. Prime Movers, C. V. Kerr, 68
Rateau, Steam, 3, 455
Steam, 3, (19), 61, 68, 85, 331, 410, 455, 474, 503, 537, 571, 589, 639, (646)
Used Instead of Impulse Wheels in a High- head Water-power Plant, (521)
Utilisation of Exhaust Steam in Steam Turbines, 455

TURNER, Mr. Tom Newsum, 263
Turner’s Workshop with Motive Wheel and Dog to Turn it, (546)
Turning Record, A, (582), 628

UNWIN, Professor W. C., 39»
United States Foreign Immigration, (61)
United States Joint Manoeuvres of the Army and Navy, (253)
University of Liverpool: Faculty of Engineering, (451)
University, Manchester, (476)
Uralite Competition, A, (432)
Uralite Sheets, Practical Test by Fire of Hut Lined with, (85)
Uranium Atom, Average Life o', (393)
Urquhart, Mr. Thomas, 64

VACUUM Cesspool Exhauster, Messrs. Merriweather and Co., 530
Valve, The Hoy “Pop” Safety. 329
Valve, The “Symbol” Steam, 329
Valves and Valve Gear, 411, 418, 500, 532
Vesuvius, Ores Deposited by the Steam-jots Issuing from the Cone, (521)
Victoria University of Manchester, (476)

WAGON, Low Side Bogie Goods, 387
Pyrodyen Steam, 387
Steam, at the R.A.S., 16
Walker, Mr. F, Blennerhassett, (303)
Walsall, Loan Applied for, for Land for Sewage Farm Purposes, (646)
Warton, Mr., (98)
Watch Springs, Steel taken from Sheffield for, by Swiss Watchmakers, (85)
Water-cooling Plant, Messrs. L. F, Gjers and J. H. Harrison, (333)
Waterproofing Dress Materials, Process for, (621) Water Purification, Papers on, 538
Water in Rivers and Open Channels, Measurement of Running, W. H. Wheeler, 562
Water-seal Steam Trap, 504
Water Softener, Reisert Automatic, 653 Water-softening Plants for Locomotive Boilerfeeding, (164)

Water Supply:

Barnsley, Midhope Reservoir, (571) Birmingham’s New, 77, 87
Birmingham, Welsh Water Enters, (332) Bosnia and the Herzagovina, (419)
Boston, (445)
Bradford, Mr. Jas. Watson’s Salary Raised, (61)
Carlisle, The Geltsdale Scheme and Lord Carlisle, (445)
Catcleugh Reservoir, (205)
Colombo, (11)
Connecticut, Storage Reservoirs in, (646)
Copper Sulphate, Treatment for, 34
Cotonou, in Dahomey, (571)
Denver, Dam under Construction at Lake Cheesman, (621)
Derwent Valley Scheme, (405)
Derwent Watershed, (169)
Dunfermline, (218)
East London Waterworks, Pumping Plant, 328 Edinburgh and District, Rainfall, 1904, (471) Edinburgh, New Scheme, (258)
Gainsborough, 104, 105
German Towns, (521)
Girvin, Ayrshire, (182)
Glasgow Corporation, Revenue and Expenditure, (61)
Haulbowline Dockyard, (471)
Huelva, (299)
Kidderminster, (555)
Langsett Reservoir, Valves Closed, (393), (405)
Lawrence, Mass., U.S., (345)
Little Don Valley Works of the Sheffield Corporation, (11), (333), (393), (405)
Manchester Corporation, Subsidence of the Crudenshaw Reservoirs, (157)
Manchester, from Thirlmere, (230), (445), 580
Measurement of Running Water in Rivers and Open Channels, W. H. Wheeler on, 562
Meter for City Mains, Mr. A. S. Tuttle, 34
Metropolitan, May Report, (35); June, (205); July, (299); August, (323); September, (445) ; October, (597)
Water Board, Question of the Supply of Water to Motor Vehicles, (445)
Water Board, Mr. W, B. Bryan’s Appointment, (11); Standardissd Water Fittings, (651)
Nagasaki, (276)
Newcastle and Gateshead, (205)
New York, (393)
New York, The Croton Dam, 209
North Blyth, (498)
Paris Municipal Council Sends Deputation to Germany to Inspect Water Supply Methods, (205) ; Warns all Inhabitants to Boil Water for Drinking, (206)
Pittsburg, U.S., Ordinances with Regard to Filtration, (646)
Prevention of Vegetable Growths in Reservoirs, United States, (297)
Purification of Water, Papers on the, 538 Rand, (111)
Reisert Automatic Water Softener, The, 653
Riga, (299)
Rusting of Hoops on Wooden Water Tanka, Dangers Attendant on, (471)
Russia, Report on the Available Power of, (323)
Shanghai Waterworks (Siipiy/ement, I)eeemler IQfk, 1904), 602, 603
Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, (11), (333), (393), (405)
Shimonoseki Waterworks, Cost of, (157) Shrewsbury, (97)
Simla, (498)
Skipton, (546)
South Africa, Water-power, (453)
South Staffordshire Waterworks, Hinksbvd Pumping Station (SuppUnicnt, July 223jf^, 1904), 28,36, 40, 98
Standardised Water Fittings, (651)
Tees Valley, Long Newton and Hury Reservoirs, (646)
Thames, Water Abstracted from, (419)
United States, Bursting of Reservoir in North Carolina, (471)
Varna, (230)
Wellington, (143)

WEIGHTS Carried on the Backs of Men, The Greatest, (445)
Weight of Crowds, Experiments on the, (498)
Weight per Square Foot of Floor Area of Live
People in Crowds, (621)
Wei-hai-Wei to Receive the Treatment of a Foreign Port, (216)
Westrumite, Use of, by the Paris Anti-Dust League, (35)
Wheel Gearing, Mr. W. H, Thombery, (418), 645
Wheels, Adhesion of Steam Wagon, 532, 551, 629
Wheels with Deep Rims, Joints of, (498)
Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, List of Successful Candidates, (299)
Willey, Mr. Henry Alfred, (331)
Winch, Electrically-driven, Chambers, Scott and Co., 297
Wind, Destruction of a Mississippi Bridge by, 590
Winding Plants for Great Depths, 269
Windmill, Demolition of a Famous, 238 Windmills Unknown in China, (498) Wire Rope Excavated at Pompeii, (157) Wolverhampton Rates, (597)
Wood, Mr. T. B., 19
Preserving Process, The Powell, 452 Pulp Industries, Swedish and Norwegiin, (111)
Testing, Treated to Resist Fire, (182) Turpentine, (157) worker. The Wadkin, 602
Degreasing, Last of a Series of Patents

Workmen’s Compensation Act:

177
Application at the Lancaster County-court, Judge Coventry’s Decision, (307)
Drain on the Funds of Friendly Societies i Caused by, (299)
Newport, Important Decision given by his Honour Judge Owen at, (393)
Vail V. Mr. T. L. Harding, 19

WORKSHOPS at Sea, 601

YENISEI and Obi, Exploration of Sea Route from Archangel and Petersburg to the, (471)
Zircon, Uses of, (419)
Zinc, Stamped Sheet, for Metal Ceilings, (182)

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