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INDEX.

EHtigtrationg.

LIST OF NAMES.

Abergavenny, Sewerage Works, 102 Abergavenny Sewerage Works, Abutments of Foot and Main Sewer Bridge over the River Usk, 132, 133

Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 35-ton Steam Crane, 174

Alabama, Map Showing Position of the Mineral Districts of, 444

“America,” Twin-screw Tug-boat, Messrs, Coohran and Co., 262, 264

“ America,” Twin-screw Engines of the Tug, 264 American Passenger Locomotive, The Mason Maohine Works Company, 28

American Shaft-sinking Machinery, 114, 115 Amos and Smith. Messrs., Parker’s Patent Digger, Inventions Exhibition, 492, 493 Anable, Mr., Drain Pipe Posts, 379 Anchor, Marine Governors, 316 Anderson, Mr. W., Curves of Powder Gas Pressures. 112 ’ Anderson and Gallwey, Messrs., Rivetter, Inventions Exhibition, 491

Appleby Bros., Messrs., Steam Winch, Inventions Exhibition, 425

Appleby, Bros., Messrs,, 29-ton Overhead Crane Crab, Inventions Exhibition, 493 Appleby Bros., Messrs,, Whip Crane, Inventions Exhibition, 493

Archdalo and Co., Messrs., Heavy Shaping Machine, 333

Archer,Jffr. T., Epicycloidal Steering Gear, Inventions

Athus District, General Plan of, showing Position of Mines and Works, 240

Athus Iron and Steel Works, Ore Wagon and Draw-hook, 241

Atwood and Co., Messrs. A., Hoists and Lifts, Inventions Exhibition, 382

Austrian Patent, Apparatus for Bleaching or Dyeing Yarns and Goods in Vacuo, 181 Austrian Railway, Diagrams for Estimating the Quantities of Girder Bridges (Supplement May 22nd, 1885) Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Spring Wheel, Inventions Exhibition, 397

Aveling and Porter, Messrs., 6-H.P. Traction Engine, Inventions Exhibition, 405

Crompton 22-Unit Dynamo and Willan’s Engine, Inventions Exhibition, 504

Danish State Railways, Rails and Fastenings for, 211 Danube Bridge, Competitive Designs for a, 80 Davis, Mr., Positive Action Cut-out and Contact Changer, 231

Deakin and Parker, Messrs., Compound Engine, 261 Dean Wire Stretcher, The. 219 Deeley and Co., Messrs., Vacuum Sugar Pan, 6 De Michele, Mr. V., Patent Automatic Cement Testing Machine, 478

Dick, Kerr and Co., Messrs., Compound Winding Engines, 457

• Dick and Stevenson, Messrs., Steam Hammer, 379 “ Dolphin.” U.S. Despatch Boat, 446 Dowson, Mr. A,, Open Grid Groynes, Inventions Exhibition, 426

Drysdale and Co., Messrs., Hydraulic Pumping Engines, 315

Durham and Churchill, Messrs., Pistons, 231

James, Mr., Doubling and Laying Machine, Inventions Exhibition, 473 Jamieson, Mr., Shaft Coupling, 21 Janney Railway Coupling, The, Mr. Alfred Davis, Inventions Exhibition, 425

Johnson, Mr. W., Briok Machinery, Inventions Exhibition, 417 Joy, Mr. Valve Gear, 117

Kalashnikoff, Mr. V. J., Vertical Boiler, 485 Kirkaldy, Mr. J., Dirt Arrester, Inventions Exhibition, 432

Kirkaldy, Mr. J., Feed-water Heaters, Inventions Exhibition, 432

Kirkaldy, Mr. J., Surface Condensers, Inventions Exhibition, 432

Easton and Anderson, Messrs., Water-Purifying Apparatus, Inventions Exhibition, 372 Edisoh-Hopkinson Dynamo, The, 173 F.dwatds, Mr. Easton A., Anemometer, 456 Elgin, Illinois, Tower System of Electric Lighting, 181 •

Ellington, Mr. E. B., Pipe Flange, 233

La Tardes Viaduct, The, Montlucon and Eygurande Railway, 318, 322, 331, 332 Leahy, Mr. Henry H., Relieved Slide Valve, 418 Lean, Mr. Charles, Simple Methods of Calculating Stresses in Girders, 139, 140 Legg Rotary Power Coal Drill, The, 181 Linney and Lawson, Messrs., Patent Crank Axle Forging, 231

Lockwood and Carlisle, Messrs., Piston Rings, 181 Loudon, Map Showing Hydraulic Power Mains in, 232

London and North-Western Railway Compound Locomotive, Mr. F. W. Webb, Inventions Exhibition, 349, 352

Fielding and Platt, Messrs., High-speed Engine, Inventions Exhibition, 437, 440 Fletcher and Co., Messrs. Geo., Patent Valve Gear, 305 Fort de L’Ecluse, Landslip at, 113 Forth Bridge, Air Lock for Sinking 70ft. Caissons, Messrs. Fowler and Baker, 128 Forth Bridge, Machinery used in Constructing the, Mr. Andrew S. Biggart, 52, 53 Forth Bridge, The Main Pier on Inchgarvie, Messrs. Fowler and Baker, 168

Forth Bridge, View of one of the Great Caissons of the, Plan and Section of ditto, 106, 111 Fraser, Lieut.-Col. A. T., Stress and Strain Diagrams, 408

Frisbie and Co., Messrs. D., Friction Clutch, 21

Barnhart, Mr. H. M., Ballast Unloader, 21 Barrow Rock Drill Company, The Barrow Machine Rock Drill for Mining, Inventions Exhibition, 457 Bauer’s Link Spanner and Tube Vice, Messrs. James Gibbs and Co., 278

Belfast Electric Appliance Company, Arc Lamp, Mr. Newton, 72

Belfast, Electric Lighting in, 72 Belfast, Messrs. Harland and Wolf’s Shipyard, 72 Bell’s Friction Brake for Pulleys, Messrs. W. T. Glover and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 474 Bell’s Low-pressure Filters, Messrs. W. T. Glover and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 474 Benbow, H.M.S., The Thames Ironworks External View and Deck Plan, 460 Benbow, H.M.S., Sketch Map Showing Internal Arrangements, 471

Bernays, Mr., Steam Pumps, Inventions Exhibition, 356

Company,

Borry, Mr. H., Hydraulic Rivetting Plant, 141 tjjhing^Mn, Patent Breech-loading Shot Gun, 3

Birmingham, Compressed Air Motive Power Supply,

Blaauw Kranz Ravine, Bridge over the, Mr. Max Am Ende, 165

Blaauw Krantz Bridge, Cape Colony, Messrs. Handy-side and Co., 296, 297, 298, 299 Blaauw Kranz Bridge, Cape Colony, The, Mr. Max Am Ende, 200, 201

Blackburn Mill on the Roller Mill System, Mr. J. H. Carter, 39, 41

Bond, Mr. George M., Standards of Length and their

Bond, Mr. George M., Standards of Length as Applied to Gauge Dimensions, 447, 466 Borland', Air., Injectors, Inventions Exhibition, 365 Boston Docks, Hydraulic Coal Hoist, 32 Boston Docks, Hydraulic Lifting Alachinery, Alessrs.

Abbott and Co., 33, 63, 66 Botting, Air, F., Air-tight Covers and Plugs, 497 Bottomley’s Radial Axle Boxes, Inventions Exhibi-tion, Alessrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 474 Bouch, Mr., Long Boiler “Bull” Engine, and Darlington Railway, 95

^ton'Railwiy&9⁸-en^er ®n^ne> Stockton and Darling-

Brazil, Stern Wheel Steamboat for, Alessrs. Forrestt and Sen, 366

Brrr".rii™;'S,"bL“"'ich with'

Brighton Beach Works, 126 Britannia Company’s Treadle Saw, The, 204

B    38 Hlgh Pressure Gauge, Inventions Exhi-

B John Abbott aru? Calm Cran°81 P°rt °f’ Mc8srs’

Hy,craulic Machinery,

Abbott and Co., 184, 185, 188    y

Burrell and Sons, Messrs. C Boiler by Road, 279 Bush Interlocking Rail Bolt, The 145 Busch, Mr. Julius, Feed Alochanism for Roller Mm. p Butler, Air. 8., Alovable Co7st« ?L >    , ’⁸

Exh bition, 400    Staiths, Inventions

Gardner &ud Woodbnd^G Screw-cnttmg Tool, Tho, 70 General Engine and Boiler Company. Combined Steam Engine and Air-compressing Machine, Inventions Exhibition, 401

Glover and Co.. Messrs. W. T., Bell’s Friction Brake for Pulleys, Inventions Exhibition, 474 Glover and Co., Messrs. Walter T., Bell’s Low-pressure Filters, Inventions Exhibition, 474 Glover and Co., Messrs. Walter T., Machinery for Cord, Twine, and Rope-making, Inventions Exhibition, 473

Glover and Co., Messrs. Walter T., Trotter’s Wire Gauge, Inventions Exhibition, 473 Gmelin, Dr. Otto, Cupola, 3

Goodfellow and Matthews, Messrs., Engines, Inventions Exhibition, 364

Goodman, Mr. J., Friction of Slide Valves, 186 Gover, Mr. H. Charles, Railway Carriage Window, 478 Graham, Mr. Robert Hudson, Radial Valve Gear, 131, and June 29th, 1883, pp. 497-499 Great Eastern Railway Company’s Steamboats, Norwich and Ipswich, 71

Great Eastern Railway Tank Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, Mr. T. W. Worsdell (Supplement, March \Zth), 204

Great Southern and Western Railway, Breakdown Plant, Mr. H. A. Ivatt, 268

Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, Four-Coupled Passenger Engine, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, 497, 500

Greenaway and Kitt, Messrs., Four-slide Gas Exhauster and Pump, Inventions Exhibition, 492 Greenwood and Son, Messrs., Flour Mill, Blackburn, Mr. J. II. Carter, 39, 41 Grossman Feed-water Regulator, The, 219 Gruson’s Chilled Iron Armour, 373

Mackinnon Pen, The, 250

Maclaine Perfect Piston Company, Twin Screws, 315 Madras Railway, Girders for Beypore and Kallai Bridges, 476

Malet, Mr., Solid Barbed Wire Fencing, 445 Malminot Viaduct, Montauban and Cahors Railway, 223

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Outside Cylinder Express Engine, Mr. Charles Sacr6 (Supplement, January 2), 7 Mansion House and Bank Subway, Plan, 51 Marsden, Mr. H. R., Stone Breakers, Inventions Exhibition, 484

Mather, Mr, G. R., Portable Engine, Inventions Exhibition, 358

Mather and Platt, Messrs., Electric Light Machinery, 125

Matthewson’s Improved Sand Blast Apparatus, The Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Company, 466, 467 May hew, Messrs., Boiler Feeders, Inventions Exhibition, 425

Meatyard, Mr. Edward B., The Equitable Duplex Hammer, 323

Messenger and Co., Messrs. Full Way Valve, 379 Mew Island Lighthouse, Belfast Lough, Mr. W. Douglass, 25

Midland Railway, Express Locomotive, Mr. S. Johnson, 164

Midland Railway, Four-coupled Express Locomotive, Mr. S. Johnson (Supplement, February 6, 1885), 117 Mogul Engine, American, 800 Morris, Mr. R., Wagon Coupling, 305 Morse Cotton Press, The, 304

Mumford, Mr. A. C., The Desideratum Donkey Pump,

Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., Portable Boiler Drilling Machine, Inventions Exhibition, 473 Sheppard and Sons, Messrs., Coal Washing Machinery, Inventions Exhibition, 446

Siemens and Co., Messrs., Lightning Rod Testing Apparatus, 70

Sintz Boiler Feeder, The, 141

Smith, Mr. B. G., Safety Hydraulic Telescopic Hoist, Inventions Exhibition, 452 Smith, Prof. R. H., Fly-wheel, 19, 20 Smith and Co.. Messrs. Hugh, Fixed Boiler Rivetter, Inventions Exhibition, 426

Smith and Marshall, Messrs., Patent Gland Packing,

231

Soci6t6 Lyonnaise, 50-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 480, 496 Southern Mahratta Railway, Wheels for, 259 Spencer and Co., Messrs. James, Hollow Spindle Capstan Lathe, 333

Spencer, Carter, and Co., Messrs., Portable Winding Machinery, 383

Spencer and Co., Messrs. J., Portable Slotting and Key way Cutting Machine, 166 Spezia, Armour-plates at, 161

S.S. “ Eastwood,” Steel Boiler for, Messrs. Earle’s Shipbuilding Company, 477 S.S. “ Mona,” Compound Engines of the, Messrs. C. Burrell and Sous, 282, 286

S.S. “Umbria" and “Etruria,” Electric Light on Board the, Messrs. J. D. F. Andrews and Co., 278 Sterne and Co., Messrs. L., Compound Buffer and Draw Spring, 485

Stiles and Parker Press Company’s Presses, The, 145 Stockport Gas Engines, The, Mr. C. H. Andrews, 192, 193

Stothert and Co., Messrs. G. K., Horizontal Compound Condensing Engine, 420

Stratton Separator Company, Separator for Steam Boilers, 505

Suakim-Berber Railway, High-pressure Pumping Machinery, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co. Suakim-Berber Military Telegraph, 341 Suakim, Sea-water Distillers, 294 Summerson, Mr. Thos. R., Water Gauge, 269

, 205

Take Vale Railway, Locomotive Breakdown Steam Crane, Messrs. Alex. Chaplin and Co., 48 Tangye, Messrs., Gas Engine Governor, Inventions Exhibition, 424

T. C., Friction of Slide Valves, 224

Terry, Mr. Stephen H., Friction of Slide Valves, 316

Thomas, Mr. E. C. Greenway, Floating Breakwaters,

187

Thomson and Browning, Messrs., Metallic Permanent Way, Inventions Exhibition, 464, 465 Tilbury, New Deep Water Docks at, 260, 408 Tower Bridge, Mr. Davey Bennett, 384 Tower Bridge, The, Mr. J. Somestory, 438 Tower Bridge, Cross Sections of Proposed Low-level, Messrs. Ordishand Matheson, 359, 360 Tripier, Mr., Spherical Excentric, 417 Trossin, Mr. Otto, Superheated Steam Engine, 249 Trotter’s Wire Gauge, Messrs. Walter T. Glover and Co,, Inventions Exhibition, 181, 473

Stockton

Messrs. J.

Transporting a Alarine

Halford, Air. W., Self-fastening Coal Plate, Inventions Exhibition, 453

Hardie, Air. T. G., Railway Joint Chairs, 231 Hastie-Brotherhood Hydraulic Engine, The, The Hydraulic Engineering Company, Inventions Exhibition, 453

Ilathom, Davey, and Co., Messrs., Domestic Motor, 21 Hawkesbury Bridge, Borings for the, 155 Hawthorne and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine, Inventions Exhibition, 433 Heap, Mr. J., The Gripper Lock Nut, 261 Heck, Air. J. H., Stability Balance, 255 Hedges, Mr., Speed Gauge,

H.M.S. “Active’s” Gun, Bursting of, 104 Hett, Air., Turbine Governor, 505 “Hibernia” and “ Columbia,” Compound Engines of the Tug-boats, De Alaatschappy de Alaas, Delfts-liaven, 81, 84

Holden and Brooke, Alessrs., Exhaust Steam Injector, 296

Honigmann Fireless Locomotive Engine, The, 60, 61 Hooghly, Bridge over the, East Indian Railway, 62 Hooghly Bridge, Details of Girders, 124, 153, 222 Hooghley Bridge, The, Air. W. C. Kernot on the design of, 43S

Hull, Diagram Showing Fluctuations in, Demand for Power in, 232

Hulse and Co., Alessrs., Machine Tools, Inventions Exhibition, 369

Hydraulic Engineering Company, The, Hydraulic Crane, Inventions Exhibition, 452

505

314

Neill and Son, Alessrs. W., Air Compressing Engines, 145

New Orleans Exhibition, Section of Music Hall, 248 Nicholson, Air., Coupling, 70

Nicholson, Air. John, Positions of Coal Bunkers, 255 Nordenfelt, Messrs., Five-barrelled Volley-firing Ala-chine Gun, Inventions Exhibition, 396 Nordenfelt Quick-firing Six-pounder Gun, 99

Park and Pryce, Alessrs., Train Protection Bar, The Railway Signal Company, Inventions Exhibition, 456 Park Hill Hospital, Liveipool, Air. Clement Duns-combe, 44, 45

Parson, Air., Detachable Boring Tools Parson’s Patent High-speed Engine, and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 353 Pearn and Co., Alessrs. F,, Direct-acting Steam Pump,

Peck, Air. E. C., Friction of Slide Valves, 277 Peck, Air. Edw, C., Relieved Slide Valve, 173 Pickering, Air,, Hoist Gear with Automatic Clutch, 434 Price’s Patent Candle Company, Spiral Candle Making Alachine, Inventions Exhibition, 491

, 465

Alessrs. Kitson

Readino, Bridge over the Kennet at, Air, Ed. Baker, 423

Remscheid Waterworks, The, Details of Pumping Engines, 288

Remscheid Waterworks, The Plan and Profile of the Supply Area, 2S7

Remscheid Waterworks, The, Pumping Station, Herr L. Dissclhoff, 226

Remscheid Waterworks, Tower and Reservoir, Herr L. Disselhoff, 244

Bigby, Air, Wm., Steam Hammer, patented 1854, 418 Robson, Air., Gas Hammer, Inventions Exhibition, 424 “ Rocket,” Gear of the, as sketched by A. Alarson, 186 Romanes, Mr. C. H., Strains on Circular Lock Gates, 77

Veasey and Co., Messrs., Friction of Slide Valves, 212

Volvox, The Friction of Slide Valves, 163

W., Drawing of a very Remarkable Boiler Explosion, S3 Wallasay Ferry-boats, “Snowdrop” and “Crocus,” Alessrs. Flannery and Fawcus, 337 Waller and Co., Alessrs. G., Phoenix Gas Washer-Scrubber, 378

Walsh, Air. J. E., Self-regulating Mill and Purifier Feed,497

Waltham Abbey, Electric Safety Lamps, Alajor Watkin and Col. Brackenbury, Inventions Exhibition, 413

Weimer, Air. P. L., Blowing Engines for Charcoal Furnaces, 3

Welford, Alessrs. R. and W., Patent Furnaces, 359 AVenham, Air. F. H., Gas Light, 363 Wheelock Engine, Alessrs. D. Adamson and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 34S

Wieksteed, Mr., Testing Machine, Alessrs. Joshua Buckton and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 357 Wiles Spring Hinge, The, 141

Willan, Air., Arrangement for Forced Draughts, 256 Woodhead, Alessrs. R., Steam Hammeis, 296 Worsdell, Mr. T. W., Compound Locomotive (Supplement, May 15), 377

Wrightson, Air. T., Centre Crane for Bessemer Casting Pits, Inventions Exhibition, 433

SUBJECT MATTER.

Air Lock for Sinking 70ft. Caissons, Forth Bridge, Alessrs. Fowler and Baker, 128 Anemometer, Air. Eaton A. Edwards, 456 AntPFluctuator for Gas Engines, AI, Emil Schrabetz,

A™ Lamp, ^Belfast Electric Appliance Company, Air,

Armour-plates at Spezia, 161

Carter, Mr. J. Harrison, Four-roller 40, 42

Break Alill,

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Cochran and Co., Messrs., Marino Exhibition, 424

C°tiond485Ir’ H ’ Tram"car Guard. Inventions Exhibi-Corliss Engine, New Orleans Exhibition Coventry Machinery Company, Parallel

Boilers, Inventions

24 S

Grip Vioe,

478

St. Helens Waterworks, The, Knowsley Pumping Station, Air. D. M. F. Gaskin, 416, 436 Schenectady Locomotive Works, Consolidation Goods Engine, 88, 89

Schnetze’s Foundry Sand Aiixer, Alessrs. T. B. Jordan, Son, and Commans, 181

Schrabetz, AI. Emil, Anti-fluctuator for Gas Engines, 166

8chuylkill River, Strengthening the Abutments of a Great Bridge across the, 110 Scott, Air. II., Flush Tank, 317 Indian State Railways, Well Curbs, 24    Scott and Son, Messrs. George, Vertical Pump,

Inventions Exhibition, General Plan of, 329    Inventions Exhibition, 452

Inventions Exhibition, Guns and War Stores, 370, 371, Shanks and Co., Alessrs. Alexander, Diagonal Surface 396,413    _    Condensing Paddle-wheel Engines, 144

Inventions Exhibition, Intoiior of the Electric Light Shanks and Co., Messrs. Alexander, Boilers for Paddle-Shed, 340    I wheel Tug-boat, 148

Inventions Exhibition, Steam Engines at, 347—350, Shanks and Co., Alessrs. Alexander, Tug-boat Paddle-352, 353, 358, 364, 397    ,    ,    wheels, 146

Inventions Exhibition, Plan Showing Disposition of Shaw, Mr. Tlios., Hydraulic Electric Gun Pressure Eleotric Light Systems, 293    Gauge, 314

“Isa,” Triple-expansion Engine of the, Diagrams Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Alessrs., Planing AI?,chU»e, tafcen with a Darke’s Indicator during the run, 5Q3 Inventions Exhibition! 473,

Indian State Railways, Flexible Buffers and Screw Couplings for Carriages and Wagons, 368 Indian State Railways, Goods and Ballast Wagons,

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Ballast Unloader, Mr. H. M. Barnhart, 21 Beach Works, Brighton, 126

Bleaching or Dyeing Yarns and Goods in Vacuo Austrian Patent, 181

Boiler Drilling Alachine, Portable, Messis. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 473 Boiler Explosion, Drawing of a Very Remarkable, S3 Boiler Feeder, Messrs. Alayhew, Inventions Exhibition, 425

Boiler Feeder, The Sintz, 141

Boiler Rivetter, Fixed, Alessrs. Hugh Smith and Co Inventions Exhibition, 426 Boiler, Steel, for s.s. “Eastwood,” Messrs.

Shipbuilding Company, 477 Boiler, Vertical, Air. V. J. Kalashnlkoff, 485 Boilers, Alarine, Alessrs. Cochran and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 424

Boilers for Paddle-wheel Tug-boat, Alessrs. Shanks and Co., 148

Boring Tools, Detachable, Mr. Parson, 465 Breakdown Plant for Great Southern and Western Hallway, Mr, H, A, Ivatt, 268    ^

Earle

Despatch Boat Dolphin, U.S., 446 Digger, Parker’s Patent, Messrs. Amos and Smith, Inventions Exhibition. 492, 493 Dirt Arrestor, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, Inventions Exhibition, 432

Docks, Tilbury Deep Water, 260, 408 Doubling and Laying Machine, Mr. James, Inventions Exhibition, 473 Drain Pipe Posts, Mr. Anable, 379 Dynamo, The Edison-Hopkinson, 173 Dynamo, Twenty-one Unit, Messrs. R. E. Crompton, Inventions Exhibition, 004 Dynamo, Twenty-two Unit, and Willan’s Engine, 'Messrs. R. E. Crompton, Inventions Exhibition,

on Board tho s.s. “Umbria” and

Electric Light

“ Etruria,” Messrs. J. D. F. Andrews and Co , 278 Electric Light Shed, Interior of, Inventions Exhibition, 340

Electric Light Machinery, Messrs. Mather and Platt,

Electric Safety Lamps, Waltham Abbey, Major Wat-kin and Colonel Brackenbury, Inventions Exhibition, 413

Electric Lighting Systems, Plan Showing Disposition of, Inventions Exhibition, 293 Electric Lighting in Belfast, 72

Electric Lighting, The Tower System of, Elgin, Illinois, 181

Engine and Air-compressing Machine, Combined, General Engine and Boiler Company, Inventions Exhibition, 401 Engine, American Mogul, 300

Engine and Dynamo, Combined, Messrs. Browett, Lindley, and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 397 Engine, Compound, Messrs. Deakin and Parker, 261 Engine, Compound, Messrs. Hawthorne and Co., Inventions Exhibition. 433 Engine, Consolidation Goods, Schenectady Locomotive Works, 88, 89

Engine, Corliss, New Orleans Exhibition, 248 Engine, 50-H.P., Horizontal, Society Gonnaise, 480,

Ross

“ Hibernia’' and

Guns and War Stores, Inventions Exhibition, 370, 371, 396, 413

Radial Valve Gear, Mr. Robert Hudson, 431 (and June 29, 1883, pp. 497-499)

Rail Bolt, The Bush Interlocking, 145 Rails and Fastenings for Danish Railways, 211 Railway Carriage Window, Mr. H. Charles Gover, 478

Railway Diagrams, Austrian, for Estimating the Quantities of Girder Bridges (Supplement, May 22) Railway Joint Chairs, Mr. T. G. Hardie, 231 Rivetter, Messrs. Anderson and Gallwey, Inventions Exhibition, 491

Rivetting Plant, Hydraulic, Mr. II. Berry, 141 Rock Drill for Mining, The Barrow Machine, The Barrow Rock Drill Company, Inventions Exhibition, 457

Rope making Machinery, Messrs. Walter T. Glover and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 473

Hammer, The Equitable Duplex, Mr. Edward B.

Meatyard, 323

Hammer, Gas, Mr. Robson, Inventions Exhibition,

424

Hammer, Steam, Messrs. Dick and Stevenson, 379 Hammer, Steam, Mr. William Rigby, Patented, 1854,

418

Hammer, Steam, Messrs. R. Woodhead, 296 Hoist Gear with Automatic Clutch, Mr. Pickering,

Inventions Exhibition, 434

Hoists and Lifts, Messrs. A. Atwood and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 382

Hoist, Safety Hydraulic Telesoopic, Mr. B. G. Smith,

Inventions Exhibition, 452

Hospital, Liverpool Park Hill, Mr. Clement Duns-combe, 44, 45    Sand Blast Apparatus, Matthewson’s Improved, The

Hydraulic Coal Hoist, Boston Docks. 32    Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Company, 466, 467

Hydraulic Cranes, Port of Buenos Ayres, Messrs. Screw-cutting Tool, The Gardner and Woodbridgo, John Abbott and Co., 103    70

Hydraulic Lifting Machinery, Boston Docks, Messrs. Sea Water Distillers, Suakim, 294 Abbott and Co., 33, 63, 66    Separator for Steam Boilors, Stratton Separator Com-

IIydraulic Machinery, Port of Buenos Ayres, Messrs. pany, 505 Abbott and Co., 184, 185, 188    Sewerage Works, Abergavenny, 102

Hydraulic Power Mains in London, Map Showing, Sewerage Works, Abergavenny, Abutments of Foot

and Main Sewer Bridge over the River Usk, 132,

133

466

77

204

264

315

Brick Machinery, Mr. W. Johnson, Inventions Exhibition, 417

Bridge over the Blaauw Kranz Ravine, 165 Bridge, The Blaauw Kranz, Cape Colony, Mr. Max Am Ende, 201

Bridge, Blaauw Krantz, Cape Colony, Messrs. Handy-side and Co., 296, 297, 298, 299 Bridge, Competitive Designs for a Danubo, 80 Bridge, Forth, Machinery used in Constructing, Mr. Andrew S. Biggart, 52, 53

Bridge, The Forth, Main Pier on Inchgarvie, Messrs. Fowler and Baker, 168

Bridge, The Hawkesbury, Borings for the, 155 Bridge, Hooghly, over the East Indian Railway, 62 Bridge, Hooghly, Details of Girders, 124, 153, 222 Bridge, The Hooghly, Mr. W. C. Kernot on the Design of, 438

Bridge over tho Ivennet at Reading, Mr. Ed. Baker,

428

Bridge across the Schuylkill Rivor, Strengthening the Abutments of a Great, 110 Bridge, Tower, Mr. Davey Bennett, 384 Bridge, Cross Sections of Proposed Low-level Tower, 359, 360

Bridge, The Towor, Mr. J. Somos Story, 438 Buffer and Draw Spring, Messrs. L. Sterne and Co.,

485

Bursting of II.M.S. “ Active’s ” Gun, 104

Caissons of the Forth Bridge, View of One of the Great, 106

Caissons of the Forth Bridge, Plan and Section of One of the, 111

Candle Making Machine, Spiral, Price’s Patent Candle Making Company, Inventions Exhibition, 491 Cement Testing Machine, Automatic, Mr. V. De Michele, 478

Chilled Iron Armour, Gruson’s, 373 Circle Squaring, Simple, Mr. E. Bing, 434 Coal Bunkers, Positions of, Mr. John Nicholson, 255 Coal Drill, The Legg Rotary Power, 181 Coal Plate, Self-fastening, Mr. W. Halford, Inventions Exhibition, 453

Coal Staiths, Movable, Mr. S. Butler, Inventions Exhibition, 400

Coal Washing Machinery, Messrs. Sheppard and Sons, Inventions Exhibition, 445 Compressed Air Motive-power Supply, Birmingham 121, 122

Condensers, Surface, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, Inventions Exhibition, 432 Cotton Press, The Morse, 304

Coupling, The Janney Railway, Mr. Alfred Davis, Inventions Exhibition, 425 Coupling, Mr. Nicholson, 70 Covers and Plugs, Air-tight, Mr. F. Botting, 497 Crab, 20-Ton Overhead Crane, Messrs. Appleby Bros., Inventions Exhibition, 493 Crane, Centre, for Bessemer Casting Pits, Inventions Exhibition, 433

Crane, Hydraulic, The Hydraulic Engineering Company, Inventions Exhibition, 452 Crane, 35-Ton Steam, Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 174

Crank Axle Forging, Patent, Messrs. Linney and Law-

son, 231

Cupola, Dr. Otto Gmelin. 3

Curves of Powder Gas Pressures, Mr. W. Anderson,

112

Cut-out and Contact Changer, Positive, Mr. Davis,

281

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Engine, Four-coupled Passenger, G. 8. and W. Railway, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, Ireland, 497, 500 Engine Governor, The “ Cat,” 279 Engine Governor, Gas, Messrs. Tangye, Inventions Exhibition, 424

Engine, The Hastie-Brotherhood Hydraulic, The Hydraulic Engineering Company, Inventions Exhibition, 453

Engine, High-speed, Messrs. Fielding and Platt, Inventions Exhibition, 437, 440 Engine, Honigman Firoless Locomotive, 60, 61 Engine, Horizontal Compound Condensing, Messrs.

G. K. Stothert and Co., 420 Engine, Inventions, Portable, Mr. G. R. Mather, 358

Engine, Launch, with Bremner’s Valve Gear, Messrs.

and Duncan, 70 Engine, Long Boiler “Bull,” Stockton and Darlington Railway, Mr. Bouch, 95 Engine, Outside Cylinder Express, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Mr. Charles Sacrd (Supplement, January 2), 7

Engine, Parson’s Patent High-speed, Messrs. Kitson and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 353 Engine, Passenger, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Mr. Bouch, 95

Engine and Rope Driving Gear, Mr. Chandler, Inventions Exhibition, 397

Engine, 6-H.P. Traction, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Inventions Exhibition, 405

Engine, The Stockport Gas, Mr. C. H. Andrews, 192, 193

Engine, Superheated Steam, Mr. Otto Trossin, 249 Engine, Tank, Great Eastern Railway, Mr. T. W.

Worsdell (Supplement, March 13), 204 Engine, Triple Expansion, of the Yacht ‘'Isa,” Diagrams taken with a Darke’s Indicator, 503 Engine, Wheelock, Messrs. Adamson and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 348

Engines, Air Compressing, Messrs. W. Neill and Son, 145

Engines, Blowing, for Charcoal Furnaces, Mr. P. L. Weimer, 3

Engines, Compound, of the s.s. “Mona,” Messrs. C.

Burrell and Sons, 282, 286 Engines, Compound, of the Tug Boats

“ Columbia,” De Maatschappy deMass, Delftshaven, 81, 84

Engines, Compound Winding, Messrs. Dick, Kerr, and Co., 457

Engines, Diagonal Surface Condensing Paddle-wheel, Messrs. Alexander Shanks and Co., 144 Engines, Messrs. Goodfellow and Matthews, Inventions Exhibition, 364

Engines, Hydraulic Pumping, Messrs. Drysdale and Co., 315

Engines at the Inventions Exhibition, 347, 350, 352, 353, 358, 364, 897

Engines, Pumping, The Remscheid Waterworks, 288 Engines of the Tug “America,” Twin-screw, 264 Excentric, Spherical, Mr. Tripier, 41/

Feed Mechanism for Roller Mills, Mr. Julius Busch, 3 Feed-water Heaters, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, Inventions Exhibition, 432

Feed-water Regulator, Tho Grossman, 219 Fencing, Solid Barbed Wire, Mr. Malet, 445 Fe’ry Boats, Wallasey, “Snowdrop” and “Crocus,” Messrs. Flannery and Fawcus, 337 Filters, Bell’s Low-pressure, Messrs. W. T. Glover and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 474 Flexible Buffers and Screw Couplings for Carriages and Wagons, Indian State Railways, 368 Floating Breakwaters, Mr. E. C. Greonwav Thomas, 187

Fluctuations in Demand for Power in Hull, Diagram Showing, 232 Flush Tank, 296 Flush Tank, Mr. II. Scott. 317 Fly-wheels, Professor R. II. Smith, 19, 20 Forced Draughts, Mr. Willan’s Arrangements for, 256

Foundry Sand Mixer, Schnetzo’s, Messrs. T. B.

Jordan, Son, and Commans, 181 Friction Brake for Pullers, Bell’s, Messrs. W. T.

Glover and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 474 Friction Clutch, Messrs. D. Frisbie and Co., 21 Friction of Slide Valves, Mr. J. Goodman, 186 Friction of Slide Valves, Mr. E. C. Peck, 277 Friction of Slide Valves, T. C., 224 Friction of Slide Valves, Mr. Stephen H. Terry, 316 Friction of Slide Valves, Messrs. Veasey and Co., 212

Friction of Slide Valves, Volvox, 163 Furnace, Patent, Messrs. R. and W. Welford, 359

Gab Motion Valve Gear, 96

Gas Exhauster and Pump, Four Slide, Messrs. Greenaway and Kitt, Inventions Exhibition, 492

Gauge, Budenberg’s Higb-pressure, Inventions Exhibition, 353

Gauge, Hydraulic Electric Gun Pressure, Mr. Thomas Shaw, 314

Gear of the “ Rocket,” as sketched by A. Marson, 186

Girders for Beypore and Kallai Bridges, Madras Railway, 476

Gland Packing, Messrs. Smith and Marshall, 931

Governors, Theory of, Mr. J. Forest Brunton, 1, 2

Grip Vice, Parallel, Coventry Machinists’ Company, 478

Groynes, Open Grid, Mr. A. Dowson, Inventions Exhibition, 426

Gun, Breech-loading Shot, Mr. Billing, 3

Gun, Five-Barrelled Volley-firing Machine, Messrs. Nordenfelt, Inventions Exhibition, 396

Gun, The Nordenfelt Quick-firing Six-pounder, 99

232

Injector, Exhaust Steam, Messrs. Holden and Brooke, 296

Injectors, Mr. Borland, Inventions Exhibition, 365

Journal Friction and Train Resistance, Experiments on, 498

Landslip at Fort de l’Ecluse, 113

Lathe, Hollow Spindle Capstan, Messrs. James Spencer and Co., 333

Light Gas, Mr. F. H. Wenham, 363

Lighthouse, Mew Island, Belfast Lough, Mr. W. Douglass, 25

Lightning Rod Testing Apparatus, Messrs. Siemens and Co., 70

Link Spanner and Tube Vice, Bauer’s, Messrs. James Gibbs and Co., 278

Lock Nut, The Gripper, Mr. J. Heap, 261

Locomotive, American Passenger, The Mason Machine Works, 28

Locomotive Breakdown Steam Crane, Taff Vale Railway, Messrs. Alexander Chaplin and Co., 48

Locomotive, Compound, Mr. J. W. Worsdell (Supplement, May 15), 377

Locomotive, Compound, London and North-Western Railway, Mr. F. W. Webb, Inventions Exhibition, 349, 852

Locomotive Express, Midland Railway, Mr. S. Johnson, 164

Locomotive, Four-coupled Express, Midland Railway, Mr. S. Johnson (Supplement, February 6), 117

Machine Tools, Messrs. Hulse and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 369

Map of Mineral Districts of Alabama, 444 Marine Governors, Anchor, 316

Mill, Blackburn, on the Roller Mill System, Mr. F. II. Carter, 39, 41

Mill, Break, Four-Roller, Mr. J. Harrison Carter, 40, 42

Mill, Flour, Blackburn, Messrs. Greenwood and Son, Mr. J. H. Carter, 39, 41

Mill and Purifier Feed, Self-regulating, Mr. J. E. Walsh, 497

Mill, Three High Roller, Mr. J. Harrison Carter, 40 Minos and Works, Athus District, Showing General Plan, 240

Motor, Domestic, Messrs. Hathorn, Davey, and Co.,

21

Music Hall, Section of, New Orleans Exhibition, 248

Ore, Wagon and Draw Hook, Athus Iron and Steel Works, 241

Paddle Wheels, Tug Boat, Messrs. Alexander Shanks and Co., 146

Pen, The Makinnon, 250

Permanent Way, Metallic, Messrs. Thompson and Browning, Inventions Exhibition, 464, 465 Pipe Flange, Mr. E. B. Ellington, 233 Piston Rings, Messrs. Lockwood and Carlisle, 181 Pistons, Messrs. Durham and Churchill, 231 Plan of Inventions Exhibition, 329 Plan and Profile of the Supply Area, The Remscheid Waterworks, 287

PlaniDg Machine, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart and Co., Inventions Exhibition, 473 Presses, The Stiles and Parker Press Company’s, 145 Pump, Direct-acting Steam, Messrs-. F. Pearn and Co., 261

Pump, The Desideratum Donkey, Mr. A. C. Mum-ford, 314

Pump, Vertical, Messrs. George Scott and Son, Inventions Exhibition, 452

Pumping Machinery, High-pressure, Suakim-Berber Railway, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 205 Pumps, Steam, Mr. Bernays, Inventions Exhibition, 356

Purifying Feed-water, Mr. Wm. Brown, 163

Radial Axle-boxes, Bottomley’s, Inventions Exhibition, Messrs. Shaip, Stewart, and Co., 474

Shaft Coupling, Mr. Jameson, 21 Shaft-sinking Machinery, American, 114, 115 Shaping Machine, Heavy, Messrs. Archdale and Co.,

333

Shipyard, Belfast, Messrs. Harland and Wolf’s, 72 Slide Valve, Relieved, Mr. Henry H. Leahy, 418 Slide Valve, Relieved, Mr. Edw. C. Peck, 173 Slotting and Key-way Cutting Machine, Portable, Messrs. J. Spencer and Co., 166 Speed Gauge, Mr. Hedges, 505 Spring Hinge, The Wiles, 141

Spring Wheel, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Inventions Exhibition, 397

Stability Balance, Mr. J. H. Heck, 255 Standards of Length and their Divisions, Mr. George M. Bond, 194

Standards of Length as Applied to Gaugo Dimensions, Mr. George Bond on, 447,

Steamboats, “Norwich” and “Ipswich,” The Great Eastern Railway Company’s, 71 Steamship “ Benbow,” H.M., The Thames Ironworks Company, 460

Steamship “ Benbow,” H.M., Sketch Showing Internal Arrangements, 471

Steering Gear, Epicycloidal, Mr. T. Archer, 493 Stern-wheel Steamboat for Brazil, Messrs. Forrestt and Son, 366

Stone-breakers, Mr. II. R. Marsden, Inventions Exhibition, 484

Strains on Circular Lock-gates, Mr. C. H. Romanes,

Stress and Strain Diagrams, Lieut.-Col. A. T. Fraser, 408

Stresses in Girders, Simple Methods of Calculating, Mr. Chas. Lean, 139, 140 Subway, Mansion House and Bank, 51 Sugar-pan, Vacuum, Messrs. Deeloy and Co., 6

Telegraph, Military, Suakim-Berber, 341 Testing Machine, Mr. Wicksteed, Messrs. Joshua Buckton, Inventions Exhibition, 357 Train Protection Bar, Messrs. Park and Pryce, The Railway Signal Company, Inventions Exhibition, 456

Tram-car Guard, Mr. H. Conradi, Inventions Exhibition, 485

Transporting a Marino Boiler by Road, Messrs. C.

Burrell and Sons, 279 Treadle Saw, The Britannia Company’s,

Tug-boat, Twin-screw, “ America," 262,

Turbine Governor, Mr. Hett, 505 Twin-screws, The Maclaine Perfect Piston Company,

Valve, Full Way, Messrs. Messenger and Co., 879 Valve Gear, Messrs. Fletcher and Co., 305 Viaduct, The La Tardes, Montlucon and Eygurande Railway, 318, 322, 331, 332

Viaduct, The Malminot, Montauban, and Cahors Railway, 223

Valve Gear, Mr. Joy, 117

Wagon Coupling, Mr. R. Morris, 305 Wagons, Goods and Ballast, Indian State Railways, 306 Washer-scrubber, Phoenix Gas, Messrs. G. Waller and Co., 378

Water Gauge, Mr. Thos. R. Summerson, 269 Water-purifying Apparatus, Messrs. Easton and Anderson, Inventions Exhibition, 372 Waterworks, The St. Helens, Knowsley Pumping Station, Mr. D. M. F. Gaskin, 416, 436 Waterworks, The Remscheid, Pumping Station, Herr L. Disselhoff, 226

Waterworks, The Remscheid, Tower and Reservoir, Herr L. Disselhoff, 244 Well Curbs, Indian State Railways, 24 Wheels for South Mahratta Railway, 259 Whip Crane, Messrs. Appleby Bros., Inventions Exhibition, 493

Winch, Steam, Messrs. Appleby Bros., Inventions Exhibition, 425

Winding Machinery, Portable, Messrs. Spencer, Carter, and Co., 383

Wire Gauge, Trotter’s, Messrs. Walter T. Glover and Co., 181, 473

Wire Stretchers, The Dean, 219

JfligceUaiteoug.

1885, 9

ABC Process at Aylesbury, 501

Abergavenny Sewage Bridge, 163

Abergavenny and the Sewage Filtration Area, 102

Abergavenny Sewerage Works, 132^133, 134

Accidents in Mines’ Commission, 479

Accidents on Railways to Servants, 155

Acetate of Soda Heaters, 5

Aden, Harbour at, 502

Admiralty and the Navy, The, 227

Aerial Navigation, 110

Aerial Navigation, Mr. W. P. Adams on, 195 Afiican Interior Sea, The, 171 Alabama, Iron and Coal Districts of, 413, 471 Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 502 “ America,” Steel Twin-screw Tug boat, 262, 264 American Contracting, An Episode in, 403 American Engineering Enterprise, 182, 206 American Mogul Engine, 300, 306 American Notes, 15, 35, 55, 73, 91, 117, 156, 175, 195, 213, 233, 251, 272, 290, 307, 326, 344, 374, 392, 410, 428, 448, 467, 508

American Shaft-sink'ng Machinery, 114, 115

Smith, Messrs., Parker’s Patent Digging

Amos and Excavator, 492

Anable, Mr., Drain Pipe Posts, 379 Anderson, Mr. R. B , On Water Analysis, 454 Anderson, Mr. W., on Purification of Water by Iron,

487

Botting, Mr. F., Air-tight Covers and Plugs, 407 Bottomley’s Radial Axle-boxes, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 473, 474

Bouton, Mr. I. V., on the Construction of Locomotives, 423

Brake, Automatic, Messrs. Sloan and Hawks, 427 Brakes, Continuous, 180, 350 Brazilian Navy, The, 135

Break-down Tackle for Railway Work, Great Southern and Western Railway, 267, 268 Breakwaters, Floating, 157, 187, 213, 225 Brennan Torpedo, The, 422 Brick Machinery, Mr. W. Johnson, 417 Bridge bet wixt Durham and Sunderland, 464 Bridge at Chiswick, Proposed, 154 Bridge, The Forth, 52, 53, 54, 106, 111, 128, 134, 162, 168

Bridge, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, 155 Bridge over the Ilooghly, East Indian Railway, 62, 70, 438

Bridge over the Rennet at Reading, 423

Bridge, Strengthening the Abutmonts of a Great, 110

Bridge, The Tower, 439

Bridges, Girder, Diagrams for Estimating the Quantities of (Supplement, May 22), 398 Brighton Beach Works, 126 Bristol University College, 339 British and Foreign Vessels, 338

British and Metric Measures, A Comparison of, for Engineering Purposes, 90

Browett, Lindley, and Co., Messrs. Combined Engine and Dynamo, 397

Brunton, Mr. J. Forest, Theory of Governors, 1 Brussels Internal Navigation Congress, The, 437 Budenberg’s High-pressure Gauge, 353 Building Trades Exhibition, 229 Bursting of H.M.S. “ Active’s” Gun, 104 Bush Interlocking Rail Bolt, The, 145 Butler, Mr. 8., Movable Coal Staiths, 400, 402 Butter Making by Electricity, 108

Cut-off Valve, Fletcher and Man’s, 304, 305 Cut-out and Contact Changer, Positive Action, 231 Cutlery Artisans in Canada, 442

Anderson and Gallwey, Messrs., Rivetter, 491 Anemometer, Mr. Eaton A. Edwards. 456 Anemometer, Observations on Kite Wire, 479 Anti-Fluctuator for Gas Engines, 166 Antwerp International Exhibition, The, 402 Antwerp Waterworks, 285 Appleby Bros., Messrs., Steam Winch, 425 Appleby Bros., Messrs., 20-Ton Overhead Crane Crab,

493

Appleby Bros., Messrs., Whip Crane, 493 Aquidaban, The, 91

Archer, Mr. T., Epicycloidal Steering Gear, 493 Archibald, Professor E. Douglas, on Biram’s Anemometers, 479    Cable Road on Brooklyn Bridge, Power Needed in

Architectural and Building Trades Exhibition, 191    Operating the, 459

Arlberg Tunnel, The, 220    Cable Tramways, 391

Armour Plates, Protective Power of, as Proved in Caisson Work in a Canal, 486 Actual Warfare, 387    Calculating Machines, 307

Armour Plates at Spezia, 161    Canal, St. Petersburg and Cronstadt Maritime, 427

Asbestos, The Admiralty Contract for, 439    Candle-making Machine, Patent Spiral, 491

Association, The British :    Candle Manufacture, 27

Account of Preliminary Experiments with Biram’s Cane Lubricators, 85 Anemometers attached to Kite Strings or Wires, Cannock Huntington Sinkings, 68 Prof. E. Douglas, Archibald, 479    Carnegie, Mr., on Natural Gas Fuel, 395

Association of Employers and Foremen, The Man- Carter,^ Mr. J. H., Horizontal Four-roller Break Mill,

Catching Dynamitards and Thieves by Steam, 2 Cement, Testing, Mr. A. Hamilton Brown on, 2 Cement Testing Machine, Automatic, Mr. V. de Michele, 478

Chandler, Mr., Engine and Rope Driving Gear, 397 Chemistry, The New, t9 Circle Squaring, Simple, 434 City Lines and Extensions, The, 175 Ciark, Mr. W. J., on Certain Cases of Electrolytic Decomposition, 414 Cleopatra’s Needle, 187

Climate and its Relation to Health, Dr. Poore on, 91,

Chester, 143

Association, Glasgow Engineers’, 69 Cement Testing, Mr. A. Hamilton Brown, 2 Edinburgh Suburban and South Side Junction Railway, Mr. David Simson, 365 Engineering Mission to Brazil, Mr. John E. Eagle-sham, 187

Hydraulic Hoists, Mr. A. Wilson, 258 Rivetting Machines, Mr. Alexander Jack, 69 Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, 303, 489

Nottingham, Five Years’ Municipal Work at, Mr. A. Brown, 402

Some of the Advantages and Results of the Supply of Water by Meter, Mr. George Winship, 402 Visit to Sir John Oldknow's Lace Factory, 402 A thus Iron and Steel Works, The, 240, 241 Atwood and Co., Messrs., Hoists and Lifts, 382 Australian Shippers’ Ring, The, 343 Austrian Railways, Diagrams for Estimating the Quantities of Girder Bridges (Supplement, May 22),

135

Danube Bridge Project, The, R. H. Graham, 77, 80 Deakin and Parker, Messrs., Compound Engine for Electric Lighting, 261 Dean Wire Stretcher, The, 219

De Michele, Mr. V., Automatic Cement Testing Machine, 478

Dick, Kerr, and Co., Messrs., Compound Winding Engines, 457

Dick and Stevenson, Messrs., Steam Hammer, 379 Differential Rates and Costs, 422 Digger, Messrs. Amos and Smith’s, 492, 493 Dii ectory, City of London, 280 Dirt Arrester, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, 432 Distillation of Sea Water, 294 Disabling General Gordon’s Steamers, 229 Diving Dress, Novel Application of, in a Burning Coal Mine, 101

Dock for Ceylon, A, 461 Docks at Antwerp, The New, 402 “ Dolphin,” The United States Despatch Boat, 442, 446 “Domestic Motor," Messrs. Hathorn, Davey, and Co., 21

Donkey Pump, The Desideratum, 314

Doubling and Laying Machine, James’s, 473

Dowson, Mr. A., Open Grid Groynes, 426

Drain Pipe Posts, Mr. Anable, 370

Driving Belts and Ropes, Mr. J. Tullis on, 507

Drying by Heated Air, 229

Dupuy de Lome, M., 109

Durham and Churchill’s Pistons, 231, 243

Dynamics, The Teaching of, 189, 208

Dynamite Outrages, Recent, 86

Dynamo, Crompton 22 Unit, and Willan's Engine, 504

Dynamo-electric Machine, Testing a, 63

Evolution of Machines, The, 284 Examination for Local Surveyors and Inspectors of Nuisances, 387

Excentric, Spherical, Mr. Tripier, 417 Exhibition, The Antwerp International, 402 Exhibition, Architectural and Building Trades, 191,

Exhibition, International Inventions, 40, 245, 337 Automatic Clutch, Mr. Pickering, 434 Boiler Drilling Machine, Portable, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 473 Boiler Feeder, Mayhew's, 425 Brick Machinery, Mr. Johnson, 417 Candle making Machine, Patent Spiral, Price’s Patent Candle Company, 491 Centre Crane for Bessemer Casting Pits, Mr. T. Wrightson, 432

Coal Plate, Self-Fastening, Mr. W. Halford, 453 Compound Engine, Messrs. Hawthorne and Co.,

432

3'. <8

Automatic Boiler Feeding, 83 Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Spring Wheel, 897 Aveling and Porter, Messrs., 6-horse Power Traction Engine, 293, 405

Avesta, in Sweden, The Kleinbessemerei at, 343 Axle-boxes, Bottomley’s Radial, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 473, 474 Aylesbury, Experiments on Sewage at, 501

Clutch Gravity Friction, 102 Clyde Navigation, The Improvement of the, 220 Coal Bunkers of a Steamer, On a Method of Arranging the, so as to Reduce the Ballast to a Minimum, 255 Coal and Coke Exports, 338 Coal, Coking, 895 Coal Discovery, 163 Coal Drill, Rotary Power, 181 Coal, The Output of, 209 Coal Pl.ite, Self-fastening, Mr. Halford, 458 Coals on Railways, Consumption of, 59 Coal in South Australia, 309 Coal Su Coal Tra

pply, London’s, ide. Sliding Seal

462

__________ Sliding Scales in the, 887

Coal Washing Machinery, Messrs. Sheppard and Sons,

Edison-Hopkinson Dynamo, The, 173 Edwards, Mr. Eaton A., Anemometer, 456 Efficiency of Fans, 4, 27, 47, 64 Electric Arc Lamp, Mr. Newton, 72 Electric Cables, 4

Electi ic Engineering, The School of, 454 Electric Launch in search of Dynamiters,

Electric Light on Board the S.S. “Umbria” and “ Etruria,”278 Electric Light Cables, 26 Electric Light Machinery, 125 Electric Lighting for the Admiralty, 379 Electric Lighting in Belfast, 72, 127 Electric Lighting, C >st of, 85 Electric Lighting at the Crystal Palace, 487 Electric Lighting, House-to-House, 216 Electric Lighting, The Power Expended in, 159 Electric Lighting at the South Kensington, 162 Electric Lighting, The Tower System of, 181 Electric Locomotion, 134 Electric Marine Governors, 265

Electrical Engineering at the Inventions Exhibition, 293, 338, 340, 354, 405, 504 Electrical Experiments, New, 417 Electrical Invention, Facts Not Generally Known Concerning, 22

Electrical Regulation of the Speed of Steam Engines and other Motors for Driving Dynamos, 312 “ Electrician,” The, 78 Electricity? What is, 5

Electricity, Professor Tyndall on the Sources of, 22, 89 Electrolysis, Commercial, 100, 294, 451, 494 Electrolysis, Commercial, Mr. Paget Higgs Electrolytic Decomposition, Mr. J. W.

143

Cord, Twine, and Rope making Machinery, Messrs.

Walter T. Glover and Co., 473 Crab, 20-ton Overhead Crane, Messrs. Appleby Bros., 493

Digger, Messrs. Amos and Smith, 492, 493 Dirt Arrester, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, 432 Doubling and Laying Machine, James’s, 473 Dynamo, 22-Unit, Crompton and Willan’s Engine, 504

Electrical Engineering at, 293, 339, 340, 354, 405, 504 Engine and Dynamo, Messrs. Browett, Lindley and Co., 397

Engine, The Hastie-Brotherhood Hydraulic, 453 Engine, High-speed, Messrs. Fielding and Platt, 437, 440

Engine and Rope Driving Gear, Mr. Chandler, 397 Feed for Roller Mills and Purifiers, Self-regulating, Mr. J. E. Walsh, 497

Feed-water Heater, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, 432 Friction Brake for Pulleys, Bell's, 474 Gas Engine Governor, Me.-srs. Tangje, 424 Gas Exhauster. Messrs. Greenaway and Kitt, 492 Gas Hammer, Mr. Robson, 424 Guns and War Stores, 370, 371, 396 Hoist Gear, Mr. Pickering, 434 Hoist, Patent Safety Hydraulic Telescopic, Mr. B. G. Smith, 452

Hoists and Lifts, Messrs. A. Atwood and Co., 332 Horology at, 451

Hulse and Co., Messrs., Machine Tools, 309 Hydraulic Crane, The Hydraulic Engineeiing Company, 452

Injectors, Borland’s, 365 Low-pressure Filters, Bell’s, 474 Machine Tools, Messrs. Hulse and Co., 309 Machinery in, 473

Marine Boilers, Messrs. Cochran and Co., 424 Metallic Permanent Way at, 464 Miscellaneous Exhibits, 424, 432, 452, 491 Movable Coal Staiths, Mr. 8. Butler, 400, 402 Naval Architecture at, 388 Open Grid Groynes, Mr. A. Dowson, 426 Parallel Grip Vice, The Coventry Machinists’ Company, 478 Plan of, 329

Planing Machine, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.,

473

s on, 451 Clark on

Backlash in Gearing, 481 Ballast Unloader, 21 Barlow, Mr. Peter William, 422 Barnaby, Mr., on the Navy, 87 Barrow Machine Rock Drill for Mining, 457 Bars, Removal of, from the Entrances to Australian Rivers, 72

Batteries, Secondary, 27 Belgian Iron in England, 151 Belgian Iron Manufacture, 261 Bell Telephone Patents, The, 122 Bell Telephone Patents Sustained, The, 26 Bell’s Friction Brake for Pulleys, Messrs. W. T. Glover and Co., 474

Bell’s Low-Pressure Filters, Messrs. W. T. Glover and Co., 474

“ Benbow,” H.M.S., 127, 460, 461, 471 Berthon Boats, 482

Bessbrook Tramway, Opening of the, 195 Bessemer, A Sir Henry, for New South Wales, 108 Bidwell, Mr. Shelford, on the Action of Light in Diminishing the Resistance of Selenium, 414 Bidwell, Mr. Shelford, on Variations caused by Magnetisation in the Length of Iron, Steel, and Nickel Rods, 414

Bing, Mr. E , Simple Circle Squaring, 434 Biram’s Anemometers attached to Kite Strings or Wires, Experiments with, 479 Blaauw Krantz Bridge, Cape Colony, 159, 162, 165, 209, 201, 296, 297, 298, 299

Blackburn Flour Mill, on the Roller Mill System, 39, 41

Blake’s Improved Vertical Bailer, 186 Blast Furnace Value of Coke, 889 Bleaching or Dyeing Yearns and Goods in Vacuo, 181 Blowpipe Flame Furnace, 35, 82 Board of Trade on Boiler Explosions, 67 Boiler Drilling, Portable, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 473.

Boiler Efficiency, 34, 228, 277, 283, 351, 362, 409 Boiler Explosion, Remarkable, 83 Boiler Explosion at the Mid-Kent Brickworks, Beckenham, 228

Boiler Feeder, Mayhew’s Patent Boiler Feeder Company, 425

Boiler Furnaces, 213, 225, 243 Boiler Plates, Experience in the Use of Thick, 271 Boiler Performance and the Quantity of Steam, 162 Boiler Setting, Horizontal, 139 Boiler, Steel, for the s.s. “ Eastwood,” 477, 479 Boiler, Vertical, Mr. V. J. Kalashnikoff, 485 Boilers, Efficiency of Marine, 316 Boilers, Efficiency of Marine, Mr. J. T. Milton on, 277 283

Boilers, Marino, Messrs. Cochrane and Co., 421 Boilers, Modern Practice in the Construction of, 155 Boilers, Non-conducting Coatings for, 362 Boilers for Paddle Wheel Tug Boat, 144, 148 Boilers, Preventing Incrustation in, 187, 270 Boilers, Steel, 265

Bond, Mr. George M., Standards of Length as Applied to Gauge Dimensions, 447, 466 Books Received, 50, 210, 422 Boring Tools, Detachable, Mr. Parson, 465 Boston Dock, Hydraulic Machinery, 32, 33, 63, 66

Cochran and Co., Messrs., Marine Boilers, 424 “ Cocoa ” Gunpowder, 338

Coke, on the Blast Furnace Value of, Mr. I. L. Bell on,

889

Coal Production, Restriction in, 442 Coking Process, The Simon-Carves, 395 Coking Coal and Recovering Volatile Matters, Note with Reference to the Methods Proposed for, 395 Colliery Company, A Prudent, 151 Colombo Breakwater, The, 442 Colonial Coal Stores, The Position of, 301 Combustion under Pressure, 421 Compressed Air Meter, lz2 Commerce, Protection of our, 337 Commerce and War, 299 Commercial Electrolysis, 100, 294, 451, 494 Compressed Air Motive Power Supply at Birmingham, 112, 121

Concrete Bridge, Erection of, in one Day, 289 Condensers, Surface, Mr. J. Kirkaldy’s, 432 Condensing Water, Cost of, 461 Conduct of Experiments, 82, 170 Conradi, Mr. H., Tram-car Guard and Rail Cleaner, 484, 485

Continuity in Paper Law, 34, 47 Contracts Open :—

Borings for the Hawkesbury Bridge,

Flexible Buffers and Screw Couplings for Carriages and Wagons, Indian State Railways, 363, 368 Goods and Ballast Wagons, Indian State Railways,

806

155

Madras Railway, Calicut Extension, Specification for Wrought Iron Girders and Steel Bearings, Beypore and Kallai Bridges, 472, 476 Rails and Fastenings for Danish State Railways, 210, 211

Well Curbs, Indian State Railways, 24, 26 Wheels for South Mahratta Railway, 259 Cooper's Hill College, 4, 27, 47, 64^146 Cord, Twine, and Rope-making Machinery,

Walter T. Glover and Co., 473 Corliss Engine at Creusot, Experiments with a, 159, 179, 212, 218, 247, 303 Cost of Iron Bridges, The, 109 Cotton Press, The Morse, 304 Coupling, Mr. Nicholson, 70 Coupling, Railway. The Janney, 425 Coventry Machinist’s Company, Parallel Grip Vice, 478 Coventry Sewage, 206

Covers and Plugs, Air-Tight, Mr. F. Botting, 497 Crab, 20-ton Overhead Craue, Messrs. Appleby Bros.,

Messrs.

Certain Cases of, 414

Electro-magnetic Wave, On a Model Illustrating the Propagation of the, 391

Electrometer, Quadrant, Sir W. Thompson’s, 271 Energy, Computation of, Mr. R. H. Thurston on, 506 Engine and Air Compressing Machine, Combined Steam, 397, 401 Engine, American Mogul, 300 Engine, Bouch’s Long Boiler, “ Bull,” 95 Engine, Bouch’s Passenger, 95 Engine, Compound, Messrs. Hawthorne and Co., 433 Engine, Consolidation Goods, 88, 89 Engine and Dynamo, Messrs. Browett, Lindley, and Co., 397

Engine, Eight Column Double Air Cylinder Blowing.

Mr. P. L. Weimer, 3 Engine, On an Express, 42

Engine, Express, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Mr. Charles Sacrd, 2, 7, and Supplement, January 2, 1885

Engine, Express, for the Midland Railway, 162,164 Engine, The Fielding High-speed, 437,

Engine, Fireless, The Honigmann, 60 Engine, Four-coupled Bogie, Midland Railway, 116 Engine Governor, Napier's Patent “ Cat,” 279 Engine, The Hastie-Brotherhood Hydraulic, 453 Engine, Horizontal Compound Condensing, 420, 422 Engine, 50-H.P. Horizontal Condensing, Societe Lyon-naise, 479, 480, 496

Engine, Parson’s Patent High-speed, 353 Engine, Passenger, Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, 497, 500

Engine, 4-H.P. Portable, Mr. G. R. Mather, 358 Engine and Rope Driving Gear, Mr. Chandler, 397 Engine, The Stockport Gas, 192, 193 Engine, Tank, for Metropolitan Traffic, Great Eastern Railway (Supplement, March 13), 204 Engine, Theoretical Efficiency of ihe Steam, 409 Engine, 6-H.P. Traction, Messrs. Aveliug and Porter, 293, 405

Engine, Trial of a Compound, 438

Engine, Vertical Compound, for Electric Lighting, 261

Engine, The Wheelock, 348

Engineering and Architecture, Mr. Goldstraw on the Relation between, 343 Engineering Mission to Brazil, 187 Engineering Professorship at University College, Liverpool, 489 Engineering Trades, The, 5 Engineers and Contractors, 361 Engineers in the Navy, 386 Engines, Air Compressing, 145 Engines, Compound, of the Tug-boats “ Columbia,” 81, 84 Engines, Compound, of the s.s. “Mona,” 279, 282, 286,

Pump, Messrs. George Scott and Co., 452 Radial Axle-boxes, Bottomley’s, 473, 47-1 Railway Carriage Window, Mr. H. C. Gover, 478 Railway Coupling, Janney’s, 425 Rivetter, Messrs. Anderson and Gallwey, 491 Spring Wheel, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 397, 398 Steam Engine and Air Compressing Machine, The General Engine and Boiler Company, 397, 401 Steam Engines at, 347, 350, 352, 353, 858, 364, 397 Steam Pumps, Mr. J. Bernays, 356 Steam Winch, Messrs. Appleby Bros., 425 Steering Gear, Epicycloidal, Mr. T. Archer, 493 Stone Breakers, Mr. H. R. Marsden, 484 Surface Condensers, Mr. J. Kirkaldy, 432 Testing Machine, Wicksteed’s, 357 Traction Engine, 6-H-P., Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 397, 398, 405

Tram-car Guard and Rail Cleaner, Mr. H. Conradi, 481, 485

Waltham Abbey Exhibits, 413 War Material. 370, 371, 396, 413 Water Purifying Apparatus, 372 Whip Crane, Messrs. Appleby Bros., 493 Wire Gauge, Trotter’s, 473 Exhibition, International, at Konigsberg, 63 Exhibition, The New Orleans, 248, 275, 3u3, 355 Exhibition of Sheffield Manufactures, 152

294

440

“ Hibernia ” and

Engines, Compound Winding, Messrs. Dick, Kerr, and Co., 457

Engines, Diagonal Surface-condensing Paddle-wheel,

144

493

Crane Centre for Bessemer Casting Pits, 433 Crane, Hydraulic, Hydraulic Engineering Company,

4 VJ

Crane, 20-ton, Worked by Dynamo-Electric Gear, 70 Crane, 35-ton Steam, Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 174

Crank Axle Forging, Messrs. Linneyand Lawson’s, 231 Crompton 21 Unit Machine, 504 Crompton 22 Unit Dynamo and Willan’s Engine, 504 Crossheads, Removing, 270

Crushing Mill, Dead-weight, Messrs. Chas. Sheppard’s and Sons, 365

Crushing Mill, Dead-weight, 409 Cupola, Dr. Otto Gmelin, 3

Curves of Incandescent Lamps, Characteristic, 271

Engines, Double Bogie, 47 Engines, Messrs. Goodfellow and Matthews, 364 Engines, Hydraulic Pumping, 315 Engines at the Inventions Exhibition, 347 Engines at the Inventions Exhibition, Tests of, 422 Engines, Powerful Mill, Messrs. Goodfellow and Matthews, 448

Engines, Steam, at the Inventions Exhibition, 396

Engines, Steam, Regulation of, 30

Engines, Triple Expansion, 4, 34, 503

Engines, Twin-screw, of the Tug “ America,” 264

England and America, 27

English and Russian Field Artillery, 283

Engraving by Electricity, 238

Ericsson, Captain John, Submarine Gun, 2

Evaporation and Dissociation, On, 391

Factory Inspection in Wales, 317 Fairholme, capt. C., on German Railway Coupling and Brake Power Regulations, 427 Fans, Efficiency of, Professor Herschel on, 408 Feed Mechanism for Roller Mills, Mr. Julius Busch, 3 Feed-water for Boilers, 224, 243 Feed-water, Purifying, 163 Feed-water Regulator, The Grossman, 219 Field-pieces, Quick-firing, 98

Fielding and Platt, Messrs., The Fielding High-speed Engine, 437, 440 Filters, Bell’s Lo Co., 474

Fletcher and Man’s Cut-off Valve, 304, 305 Floating Breakwater, 157, 187, 213, 225 Floods in the Midlands, 144 Flush Tanks, 296, 317 Fly-wheels, by Professor Smith, 19 Forced Combustion at Sea, 47 Foreign Shipbuilding, 151 Forgings for Stem F Large, 258

Forth Bridge, The, 52, 53, 54, 106, 111, 128. 134, 162,

Forth Bridge, Air Lock for Sinking 70ft. Caissons, 128,

Forth Bridge, Caissons of the, 106, 111 Forth Bridge, Machinery Used in Constructing the, 52| 53, 54

Forth Bridge, Main Pier on Inch Garvie, 162, 16S Foundry Sand Mixer, Schnetze’s, 181 Free Gift of a Week’s Work, 246 French Public Works, 280

Friction Brake for Pulleys, Bell’s, Messrs. W. T. Glover and Co., 474

Friction Clutch, Messrs. D. Frisbie and Co., 21 Friction Experiments, Mr. Towers’, 179 Friction Gear, Raworth’s, 419

Friction of Slide Valves, 107, 146, 163, 186, 212, 234.

243, 277, 316, 351, 418, 439    ’

Fuel, Mr. Collis on, 271 “ Fundamental” Patent, Another, 494 Furnace, Messrs. R. and W. Wolford, 359 Furnaces of Small Steam Vessels, Willan’s Arrangement for the Application of Forced Draughts to, 256

w-pressure, Messrs. W. T. Glover and

rames, On the Manufacture of

Gab Motion, Valve Gear, 96

Gas Exhauster and Pump, Messrs. Greenaway and Kitt, 492

Gas Lighting, Curiosities of, 266 Gas Fuel, Natural, 395 Gas Furnaces at the Forth Bridge, 67 Gas Production, Growth in, 209 Gas Supply, Progress of the, 482

499

Wales

Hett, Mr., Turbine Governor, 503 Higgs, Mr. Paget, on Commercial Electrolysis, 451 Iiigngate Archway, 180 High-speed Steamships, 319 Hoist Gear with Automatic

434

on,

Gas

Laws

Gauge, Budonberg’s High Pressure, 353 Gauge, Hydraulic and Electric Gun Pressure, Mr. Thos. Shaw, 314

General Engine and Boiler Co., Combined Steam Engine and Air Compressing Machine, 397, 401 German Colonial Fleet, The, 107 German Navy, Addition to the, 54 German Railway Coupling and Brake Power Regulations, 427

Girder Bridges, Diagrams for Estimating the Quantities of (Supplement, May 22). 398 Girders for Bey pore and Kallai Biidges, Madras Railway, 472, 476

Girvan AVaterworks, The, 152

Gland Packing, Messrs. Smith and Marshall, 231, 243 Glover and Co., Messrs. Walter T , Machinery for Cord, Ac., Making, and New Standard Wire Gauge, 473

Gmelin, Dr. Otto, Cupola, 3

Goodfellow and Matthews, Messrs, Powerful Mill Engines, 448

Goods and Ballast AVagons, Indian States Railways, 306 Cover, Mr. II. C., Railway Carriage Window, 478 Government and the Pump Makers, 212 Governor, Gas Engine, Messrs. Tangye, 424 Governors, Gas Engine, 439 Governors, Marine, 316 Governors, The Theory of, 1

Great Eastern Railway Express Trains, Comparative Dimensions of, 59

Great Eastern Railway Co.’s Harwich Fleet, 61, 71 Greenaway and Kitt, Messrs., Four Side Gas Exhauster and Pump, 492

Greenwood, Messrs., Flour Mill, Blackburn, 39, 41 Gripper Lock Nut, The, 261 Grossman Feed-water Regulator, The, 219 Groynes, Open Grid, Mr. A. Dowson, 426 Gruson’s Cast Iron Turret, 373 Gun, Breech-loading Shot, Mr. Billing, 3 Gun Committee Enquiry, The “Active,’’ 87 Gun F'orgings, A New Departure in, 171 Gun, Nordenfelt’s Five-barrelledVolley-firingMachine, 396

Gun, Submarine, Captain John Ericsson, 2 Guns as Heat Engines, 112 Guns, Pressures on, 127

Guns at the Inventions Exhibition, 370, 371, 396 Guns, Strength of, 129

Guns and AYar Stores, Inventions Exhibition, 370, 371,

Hai.ford, Mr., Self-fastening Coal-plate, 453 Hammer, The Equitable Duplex, 323 Hammer, Gas, Mr. Robson’s, 424 Hammer, Steam, Messrs. Dick and Stevenson, 379 Hammers, Steam, 296, 379, 418,

Hammersmith Bridge, 463 Hansberry, Mr. T. K., Patent for Drawing AArater from a Well, 426 Hardened Glass, 202

llarland and AVolff, Messrs., Shipbuilding and Engineering AVorks, Belfast, 72, 334 Hartley, Sir C. A., on Inland Navigations in Europe, 427

Hastie-Brothorhood Hydraulic Engine, Tho 453 Haulage by Fireless Locomotives, Cost of, 171 llawkesbury Bridgo, New South AVales, Borings for the, 155

Hawthorne and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine, 433 Health Exhibition Publications, 163 Heat Capacity of a Thermometer, 391 Heat of Fusion, Latent, and Specific Heat, 459 Heat in its Relation to Combustion, 341 Heating Feed-water, 150

Heating Surface, Influence of Position on the Value of, 199

T-Ieberlein Automatic Brake, The, 408, 419, 439 Hedge?, Mr. Killingworth, on Overhead r. Underground AVires in the U.S., 426 Hedges, Mr. K., Speed Gauge, 503 H.M.S. “Benbow,” 127, 460, 464, 471 ll.M.S. “Benbow,” Visit of H.R.II. Prince George of to, 127

H.M.S. “Stagnation” Admiralty Duet, 225 ,494

Clutch, Mr. Pickering,

Hoists and Lifts, Messrs. A. Atwood and Co., 382 Hong Kong, Tho Defences of, 151 Honigmann Fireless Locomotive Engine, The, 60, 162 Hooghly Bridgo, Tho, 124, 134, 153, 154, 221, 231, 438 Hooghly Bridge, Details of Girders and Expansion Sling, 124. 134, 153, 154 Horology at the Inventions Exhibition, 451 Horse Guards’ Parade, Drainage of, 5r)2 Horse-power, Cost of, Hudson, Prof. W. H., on tho Third Law of Motion, 29, 119 Hulse and Co., Messrs., Machine Tools, 869 Hydraulic Engineering Company, Hydraulic Crane and Hydraulic Engine, 452, 453 Hydraulic Hoists, 258 Hydraulic Lifts, 317, 343, 351, 384, 408 Hydraulic Lifts, Cost of AVorking, 343, 384 Hydraulic Machinery, Port of Buenos Ayres, 96, 103, 184, 185

Hydraulic Power Mains in London, 232 Hydraulic Power, Recent Progress in the Public Supply of, 116, 232, 288 Hydraulic Rams, The Force of, 143 Hydraulic Rivetting Plant, 141

Hydro-mechanics--Physiography, On the Theory and Practice of, 90

Hydro-mechanics, Sir Edw. Reed on the Theory and Practice of, 454

Illumination in a Fog, On the Theory of, 391 Incandescent Lamps, Mr. W. P. Adams on, 464 Indian Public AVorks Department, 419 Indian State Railways, Flexible Buffers and Screw Couplings for Carriages and Wagons, 363, 368 Indian State Railways, Goods and Ballast AVagons, 306 Indian Railway Network, Mr. Haughton on, 146 Indicator and Indicator Diagrams,' Prof. O. Reynolds on the Theory of the, and the Errors in, 454 Industrial Exhibition at Sheffield, 171 Inflexible Explosion, The, 502 Injector, The Improved Exhaust Steam, 296 Injectors, Mr. Borland’s, 365 Injectors, Madan’s, 409

Inland Navigations in Europe, Sir C. A. Hartley on,

Institute, The Franklin :

Standards of Length and their Subdivision, Mr. George M. Bond, 142

Standards of Length as Applied to Gauge Dimensions, 447, 466

Institute of Great Britain, The Sanitary, 454 Autumn Congress, 469

Examination of Local Surveyors and Inspectors of Nuisances, 454

Institute, The Iron and Steel, 351 Dr. Percy’s Presidential Address, 351, 389 Blast Furnace A’alue of Coke from which the Products of Distillation from the Coal Used in Manufacture have been Collected, Mr. I. L. Bell, 389 Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing Purposes, Mr. Carnegie, 395 Note with Reference to the Methods Proposed for Coking Coal and Recovering Volatile Matters, Prof. Armstrong, 395

Properties of Malleable Iron Deduced from its Microscopic Stiuctures, Dr. Wedding, 395 Recent Results and Further Development of the Simon-Carves Coking Process, Mr. Henry Simon,

395

Institute of Mining Engineers, The American :

New Methods of Shaft-sinking through I₄qgse Waterbearing Materials, Jas. E. Mills, n't Institute, Polytechnic, 152

Institution of Civil Engineers, 15, 267, 340 413 Comparison of British and Metric Measures for Engineering Purposes, Mr. A. Hamilton-Smythe, 90

Construction of Locomotive Engines and some Results of their Working on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, AVm. Stroudley, 225 Electrical Regulation of the Speed of Steam Engines and other Motors for Driving Dynamos, Sir Fred. J. Bramwell, 312 First Annual General Meeting under the Revised Bye-laws, 474

Forms of Ships, The, Sir Edw. Reed, 454 Inland Navigation in Europe, Sir Charles A. Hartley, 427

Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways, Mr. Benjamin Baker, 175

Modern Practice in the Construction of Steam Boilers, Mr. David Salmond Smart. 155 President's Inaugural Address, Sir Fred. J. Bramwell, 46

Purification of AVater by Iron on a Large Scale, Mr. W. Anderoon, 487

Signalling of the London and North-Western Railway, Mr. Arthur Mooro Thompson, 439 Theory of the Indicator and the Errors in Indicator Diagrams, Prof. O. Reynolds, 454 Theory and Practice of Hydro-Mechanics, Physiography, Mr. John Evans, 90 AVater Motors, Professor W. Cawthorne Unwin, 280 Institution of Civil Engineers for Ireland:— Breakdown Tackle for Railway AVork, Mr. U. A. Ivatt, 267

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 64, 101 Abstract of Results of Experiments on Rivetted Joints with their Application to Practical Work, Professor A. W. B. Kennedy, 390 Carbon in Steel, Sir Frederick Abel, 101 Recent Improvements in AVood-Cutting Machinery, Mr. George Richards, 101

Second Report of the Research Committee on Friction, 101

Institution, The National Smoko Abatement, 113 Institution of Naval Architects, The, 237 Application of Moderate Forced Draught to the Furnaces of Small Steam Vessels upon Willan’s System, 256

Efficiency of Marine Boilers, Air. J, T. Milton, 277 Experience in the Use of Thick Steel Boiler Plates, Mr. AV. Parker, 271

Manufacture of Lai-ge Forgings for Stern Frames, Mr. D. Purves, 258

Mechanical Method of Measuring a Vessel’s Stability, Mr. J. H. Heck, 255

Method of Arranging the Coal Bunkers of a Steam or so as to Reduce the Ballast to a Minimum, Mr. John Nicholson, 255

Most Suitable Propeller for Shallow Draught, Air. J. I. Tliorneycrott, 256

Notes on the Strength of Rivetted Joints, Mr. J. Milton, 257

Practical Measurement of the Comparative Fighting Efficiency of Ships of War, Captain G. H. Noel, 238

Some Further Experience with Triple Compound Engines, Mr. A. E. Seaton, 256 Stowage of Steamships, Mr. F. P. Purvis, 255 Strength of Mild Steel Plates and Rivets of Various kinus used in Shipbuilding, Mr. Wildish, 257 Theoretical Duty of Heat in the Steam Engine, Mr. J. McFarlane Grey, 256

Institution of Permanent AVay Inspectors, 154, 206

Inventions Exhibition, see Exhibition

Iron and Coal Districts of Alabama, 443, 471

Iron, Alalleable, Dr.AVedding on the Properties of

Iron, Alalleable, Dr.AVedding on the Properties of, 395

Iron, Removing Red Shortness from, 78

Iron and Steel Armour-Plates, Compound, 186

Iron and Steel, Proof Tests of, 320, 343

Iron and Steel Rails, 60

Iron Trade, 86

Iron, AVater Purification on a Large Scale by, 487 Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, AVolverhampton, and other Districts, 16, 35, 55, 74, 91, 117, 135, 156, 175, 195, 213, 233, 251, 272, 290, 308, 326, 344, 374, 392, 410, 428, 448, 468, 488, 508 Irrigation in its Latest Aspects, 170

Jackson, Mr. Thomas, 50 James’s Doubling and Laying Machine, 473 Janney Railway Coupling, The, 425 Jenkin, Professor H. C. Fleeming, 483 Jiggor Hoist, Plan of, 184 Johnson, Mr. W., Brick Machinery, 417 Journal Friction and Train Resistance, Experiments on, 498

Kalashnikofe, Mr. V. I., Vertical Boiler, 485 Kenilworth AVaterworks, Opening of the, 26 Konnet, Bridge Over the, at Reading, 423 Kirkaldy, Mr. J., Surface Condensers and Feed AVater Heaters, 432

Kleinbessemerel at Avesta in Sweden, 343 Kriebel Steam Engine, Tho, 275 Krupp Works at Essen, The, 90

Landslip and its Cause, A Remarkable. 113 La Tarbes Viaduct, Montlucon and Eygurande Railway, 318, 322, 331, 332 Lathe, Hollow Spindle Capstan, 333 Latimer Bridgo Safety Guards, 213 Launch, Astoria, 193 Launch of the “ Benbow,” 471 Launch Engine with Bremner’s Valve Gear, 70 Launches and Trial Trips, 280, 325, 339, 351, 391, 409, 447, 466, 487, 507

Law of Motion, Third, Professor AV. H. Hudson 199

Laws of Motion, 237, 269, 350, 384, 407, 408, 418, 419, 438, 458, 459, 486, 499

Laws of Motion, Newton’s, 129, 163, 187, 213, 217, 224, 2a2, 311, 342, 380

Lead in Steam Engines, 421

Leaders 1885, 9

ABC Process at Aylesbury, The, 501 Active Gun Committee Enquiry, The, 87 Admiralty and the Navy, The, 227 African Interior Sea, The, 171 Amalgamated Society of Engineers, The, 302, 502 Antwerp Waterworks, 285

Architectural and Building Trades Exhibition, 191 Aylesbury, The ABC Process at, 501 Backlash in Gearing, 481 Basic Steel, 31

Belgian Iron in England, 151

Board of Trade on Boiler Explosions, 67

Boiler Efficiency, 228

Brennan Torpedo, The, 422

British and Foreign Vessels, 338

Broken Screw Shafts, 190

Building Trades Exhibition, The, 229

Cannock Huntington Sinkings, 68

Coal and Coke Exports, 338

“ Cocoa” Gunpowder, 338

Colombo Breakwater, The, 442

Combustion under Pressure, 421

Conduct of Experiments, The, 170

Conduct of Mechanical Experiments, 30

Cost of Condensing AVater, 461

Cost of Haulage by Firelcss Locomotives, 171

Creeping of Rails, The, 85

Crisis in the Yorkshire Coal Trade, 229

Curiosities of Gas-lighting, 266

Cutlery Artisans in Canada, 442

Defences of Hong Kong, 151

Differential Rates and Cost, 422

Disabling Gen. Gordon’s Steamers, 229

Dock for Ceylon, 461

Dr. Percy’s Address, 385

Drainage of tho Horse Guards’ Parade, 502

Drying by Heated Air, 229

Leaders (continued):—

Dynamite Outrages, Recent, 86

Electric Alarine Governors, 265

Engineers and Contractors, 361

Engineers in the Navy, 386

English and Russian Field Artillery, 283

Episode in American Contracting, An, 403

Evolution of Machines, 284

Exhibition of Sheffield Manufactures, 152, 171

Extraordinary Verdict, An, 228

Failure of the Shipping Bounty Scheme, 171

Foreign Shipbuilding, 151

Free Gift of a AVeek’s Work, A, 246

Friction of Slide Valves. 107

Gas Supply, Progress of the, 482

German Colonial Fleet, The, 107

Growth in Gas Production, 209

Hammersmith Bridge, 463

Harbour at Aden, The, 502

Heating Feed-water, 150

High-speed Steamships, 319

Highgate Archway, 130

House-to-house Electric Lighting, 2i6

Increase in Merchant Shipping, 482

Inflexible Explosion, The, 502

Institution of Civil Engineers, 463

Inventions Exhibition, The, 245, 337

Iron and Steel Rails, 50

Iron Trades, 86

Irrigation in its Latest Aspect, 170 Load in Steam Engines, 4‘<:1 Liabilities for Street-making, 151 Libelling a Colliery Company, 108 Lighthouse Illumination, 284 Locomotive Engine Boilors, 109 London’s Coal Supply, 462 London Fires, 85 London Alain Drainage, 149 London Sewage Inquiry, The, 403 Madras and Colombo Harbours, 227 Making Butter by Electricity, 108 Manchester Ship Canal, The, 442 Alarine Boilers, 283 Aleteorological Progress, 246 Alileage of Screw Shafts, The, 362 Miners’ Strike, The, 320 Alines’ Drainage in South Staffordshire, 68 Navy and the Admiralty, The, 319 Needed Inprovement, A, 284 New Departure in Gun Forgings, 171 New Sliding Scale in Iron Mining, 320 New Street and Model Dwellings, 284 Newton’s Third Law, 129 Non-conducting Coating for Boilers, 362 North British Borneo, 209 North British Railway, The, 284 Official Examination of Patents, 245 Official Project for a AVater Supply to London, 29 Our Friend the Foreigner and His AVares, 209 Our New Ships, 301 Output of Coal, The, 209 Pall Alall Pavomont, The, 209 Patent-office Delays, 501 PaviDg of the New London Street, 482 Penistone Railway Accident, The, 190 Position of Colonial Coal Stores, The, 301 Practical Steam Engine Economy, 462 Privato AVagon Risks, 482 Proof Tests of Iron and Steel, 320 Protection of our Commerce, The, 337 Prudent Colliery Company, A, 151 Putney and Hammersmith Bridges, 108 Rail Export, Our, 171 Railway Accident in Russia, 502 Railway Preferences, 502 Railway Rates, 67, 151 Railway Rates and Charges, 191, 462 Railway Rates and Foreign Competition, 502 Railway and Sea-borne Coal, 209 Rating of Coal Colonies, 50 Rating of Alachinery, The, 502 Regulation of Steam Engines, 30 Restriction in Coke Production, 442 Richmond Water Supply, 482 School of Forestry, Proposed, 481 Sheffield Steel and the Gun Factories, 31 Sheffield Steel for Heavy Ordnance, 228 Shipping Freights, 266 Shoeburyness, Fatal Accident at, 191 Shoeburyness, The Shell Explosion at, 207 Sir Henry Bessemer, A., for New South AValos, 108 Sliding Scales in the Coal Trade, 387 Sliding Scales in Iron Mining, 246 Soudan Railway, The, 130, 149, 171 South Yorkshire Coalowners and the Railway Companies, 266

Standards of Light, 302 Steamship Insurance, 108 Steamship Trade, The, 68 Steamships and Crews, 87

Steamships and AVar Risks in Mutual Offices, 363 Steel Boilers, 265 Steel and Iron Shipbuilding, 404 Steel Ships, 303 Steel Tin Plates, 152 Strand to Oxford-street, From the, 191 Street Maintenance and Subways, 189 Strength of Guns, The, 129 Strike in Coal Trade, The, 284 Strike of Colliery Lads. A, 228 Strike in Yorkshire, Recent Great, and its Effects on the Trade, 462

Suakim-Berber Railway, The, 207, 284

Substitutes for Hard AVood, 246

Teaching of Dynamics, The, 189, 208

Telegraphy in Time of War, 441

Tests of Engines at the Inventions Exhibition, 422

Torquay AVaterworks, 338

Tower Bridge, The, 361

Trade, Our Falling, 130

Traders and the Railway Bills, 130

"Traveller’s Rest,” The, 228

Trial of a Aloucrieff Hydro-pneumatic Carriage at Shoeburyness, 284

Unconsidered Aspect of Alodern Strikes, An, 441 United States Despatch Boat, “ Dolphin,” The, 442 United States Cruisers, 422 Value of Vessels, 50 Virtue of Weight, 49 Volunteer Torpedo Corps, 404 AVages of British AVorkmen, 130 AVater Supply in Lancashire, 130 AVater Supply of London, 49 Water Supply in the Soudan, 191 Wear Coal Shipments, The, 229 AArestinghouse Brake, The, 130 AVork of the Aletropolitan Board, The, 387 AVorking Hours and Trade Depression, 169 Yorkshire Coal Industry, The, 190 Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 209 Yorkshire Miners and Labour Representation, 31 Lectures to Artisans, Free, 50 Legg Rotary Power Coal Drill, The, 181 Length of Iron, Steel, and Nickel Rods, Variations caused by Magnetisation, 414 Letters to the Editor •

Abergavenny Sewage Bridge, Contractors, 163

Acid Proof Cement? Cement, 301

Alteneck Dynamometer? S. H., 107

American Railway Couplers, Alfred Davis, 227

Asbestos Machinery ? H. D., 421

Augmented Railway Rates, Fredk. T. Haggard, 27

' Australian Shipper's Ring, The, Smith.Morrison and Co., 343

! Automatic Boiler Feeding, Automatic, S3

Automatic Feed of Rock Borers, George Low, 487, 501 Balanced Slide Valves, Janus, 343 Blake’s Improved Vertical Boiler, James Blake, 1S6 Block System ? The, A. B. R., 481 Blow-pipe Marne Furnace, A. C. Engert, 82 Blow-pipe Flamo Furnace, AV. Schonhoyder, 35 Boiler Efficiency, Richard II. Buel, 34 Boiler Efficiency, Thos. Raybould, 409 Boiler Efficiency, AVm. Robertson, 351,

Letters to the Editor (continued)

Boiler Explosion, Remarkable, Richd. Hartland, 83 Boiler Furnaces, S. Boswell, 243 Boiler Furnaces, Hawksley, Wild, and Co., 225 Boiler Performance and the Quality of Steam, Geo.

H. Babcock, 162 Boiler Steel, B. Dean, 277 Boiler Steel, Thos. Turner, 276 Brakes, Continuous, John Noble, 186 Brakes, Continuous, Clement E. Stretton, 186; Brochure on Gas Engines, H. H. Thwaite, 337 Caisson Work in a Canal, C. J. Reynolds, 486 Candle Manufacture, Leopold Field, 27 Cane Lubricators, T. and W. Summers, 85 Cane-splitting Machine ? S., 441 Cloth Hearthrugs? AV., 461    _

Combined Boring and Shaping Machines ? E. Iv., 2!) Compound Iron and Steel Armour-plates and Steel Armour-plates, Sam. R. Smyth, 187 Compressed Paper ? M., 189 Conduct of Experiments, John Pinchbeck, 82 Construction of Specifications, The, Wm. Spence, 127 Continuity in Patent Law, AVm. Spence, 34, 47 Continuity in Patent Law, Patentee, 47 Continuity in Patent Law, AVm. Spence, 162 Continuous Brakes, Clement E. Stretton, 350 Cooper’s Hill College, Cooper’s Hill, 27, 76 to 79 Cooper’s Hill College, H. S. Ilele Shaw, 4, 64 Cooper’s Hill College, Impartial, 47 Cooper’s Hill College, J. I. de Jongh, 146 Cost of Electric Lighting, Flannery and Bagallay, 35 Cost of Horse-Power, H. H.,29 Cost of AVorking Hydraulic Lifts, E. H. Ellington, 342, 384

Cracking of Steel Plates, W., 83

Crayon Pencil and Plate Polishing Powder Makers ?

C. D. G., 441

Dead-weight Crushing Mill, The, Chas. E. Hall, 409 Deep Water Docks at Tilbury. Forth, 384 Deep Water Docks, Tilbury, H. K., 439 Deep AVater Docks at Tilbury, AV. X. Y., 351 Double Bogie Engines, F. C. Christy, 47 Duration of U.S. Patents for Inventions previously Patented Elsewhere, Howson and Sons, 276 Efficiency of Fans, Robert H. Smith, 27, 64 Efficiency of Fans, W. C. Unwin, 4, 47 Efficiency of Marine Boilers, Economist, 317 Efficiency of Marine Boilers, L. Hopcraft, 317 Efficiency of Marine Boilers, James Howden, 316 Efficiency of Marine Boilers, One Interested, 316 Efficiency of Marino Boilers, Jno. Kirkaldy, 316 Electric Cables, J. G. Lorrain, 4 Electric Light Cables, James Johnstone, 26 Electric Lighting in Belfast, George Anneslcy Grindle, 127

Electric Lighting at the Crystal Palace, Electric Light, 487

Electricity ? AVhat is, James Johnstone, 5 Enclosing Telephones ? R. T. C., 107 England and America, AVm. Tighe Hamilton, 27 Engraving Brass ? J. P. M., 149 Eyelets ? G. E. C., 67 Factory Inspection in AVales, R. J., 317 False AVater Gauge, R. Snowdon, 31 Feed-water for Boilers, A. B., 243 Feed-water for Boilors, Steam User, 224 File-cutting? H. D. D. B., 107 Moating Breakwaters, Lewis AV. Leeds, 212 Floating Breakwaters, E. C. Greenway Thomas, 187, 225

Flush Tanks, Francis Botting, 319 Flush Tanks, H. Scott, 317 Forced Combustion at Sea, James Howden, 47 Ford, Stathan, and Co., Messrs. Timmins and Pirrie, 441

Friction of Slide Valve3, T. C., 224 Friction of Slide Valves, E. D., 243 Friction of Slide Valves, J. Goodman, 186 Friction of Slide Valves, The, Henry R. Leahy, 41S Friction of Slide Valves, Ex-Locomotivo, 186 Friction of Slide Valvos, Marine Engineer, 212 Friction of Slide Valves, Marine Engineer, 439 Friction of Slide A’alvcs, Edw. C. Peck, 212, 224, 277 351

Friction of Slido Valves, H. Perrott, 163

Friction of Slide Valves, Radius, 163

Fiiction of Slido Valves, S. AV., 186

Friction of Slide Valves, Stephen H. Terry, 316

Friction of Slide Valves, Thos. Veasey and Co., 212

Friction of Slide Valves, Viator, 163

Friction of Slide Valves, Volvox, 163, 1S6

Friction of Slide Valves, The, AV. Carlile Wallace, 146

Gas Engine Governors, Crossley Bros,, 439

Gas Engines? G. 0., 319

Furnaces at the Forth Bridge, Tancred, Arrol, and Co., 67

Government and the Pump-makers, Jas. S. Dewar, 212

Government and the Pump-makers, An English Pump, 212

Gutta-percha, A. B. C., 245 Hart Metal ? Lubricant, 385

Heating Power of Electrical Currents ? Caloric, 207 Hoberlein Automatic Brake, The, Chas. Fairholm 408, 439

Heberlein Brake, The, Clement E. Stretton, 419 Honigmann Fireless Locomotive Engine, The, E., 162

Hooghley Bridge, The, W. C. Kernot, 438 Hydraulic Lifts, American Elevator Company, 408, 317, 351

Improvement of the Mersey, Edw. Foulger, 163 Indian Public AVorks Depaitment, Unity, 419 Latimer Bridge Safety Guards, Assoc. M.I.G.E., 213 Laws of Motion, The, II. A., 270 Laws of Motion, The, W. A. S. Benson, 419, 499 Laws of Motion, S. Eddington, 384 Laws of Motion, A Girton Girl, 350, 407, 438, 486 Laws of Motion, A. S. Herschel, 458 Laws of Motion, Oliver J. Lodge, 407, 418, 459, 499 Laws of Motion, W. H. Longmore, 407 Laws of Motion, The, E. Lousley, 418 Laws of Motion, Wm. Muir, 458 Laws of Motion, R. D. Napier, 350 Laws of Motion, An Old Student, 350, 408 Laws of Motion, Jas. G. Schultz, 270 Laws of Motion, The, Robt. H. Smith, 269, 407 of Motion, The, R. Snowdon, 270 Laws of Motion, U. E. Stromeyer, 384 Laws of Motion, The, <J\ IT., 269, 407, 418, 438, 459, 486, 499

Laws of Motion, The, Thos. Veasey and Co., 270 Links in the History of the Locomotive, Graduate, 163

Lloyd's Patent Welding Process? J. B. G., 49 Locomotive Engines in Portugal, Miguet Carlos Correia Paes, 47

Machinery for Making Five-Gallon “Drums?” J. R. B., 501

Madan’s Injectors, Chas. S. Madan, 409 Manchester Ship Canal Bill and Tidal Scour, Joseph Boult, 276

Marine Governors, Anchor, 316 Miller’s Coupled Buffers, Assoc. M.I.C.E., 213 Milroy’s Excavator? G. L. C., 385 Miss Templeton, Henry C. AVaters, 343 Navy, The, Thos. Symonds, 82 New Electrical Experiments, James Johnstone, 417 Newton’s Laws of Motion, S. Eddy, 212 Newton’s Laws of Motion, J., 242 Newton’s Laws of Motion, P. T. M., 242 Newton’s Laws of Motion, Oliver J. Lodge, 242 Newton’s Laws of Motion, AV. II. Longmore, 242, 342 NewtonlbLaws of Motion, E. Lousley, 342 Newton b Laws of Motion, AVm. Muir, 213, 224, 242 Newton’s Laws of Motion, Robt. D. Napier, 342 Newton’s Laws of Motion, An Old Student, 242 Newton’s Laws of Motion, *!>. IT., 342, 384 Newton’s Laws of Motion, X., 342 Newton’s Third Law, Ed. Gobert, 224 Newton’s Third Law, AVm. H, H. Hudson, 224 Newton’s Third Law, Wm. Muir, 163 Newton's Third Law, An Old Student, 224 Newton’s Third haw, AVm, Lewia ?ny;t, 187

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New South Wales, Increase in the Population of, 429 Newton’s Law of Motion, 129, 163, 187, 213, 217, 224, 242, 311, 342, 380

Newton’s Third Law, 129, 163, 187, 213, 224 New Streets and Model Dwellings, 284 New York State Survey, The, 143 New York Water Supply, 187 Nicol’s Prism, On the Use of, 195 Nile Expedition, The, 96

Nordenfelt, Quick-Firing Six-pounder Gun, The, 99 North British Borneo, 209 North British Railway, The, 284 North of England, 16, 36, 56, 75, 92,118, 186,157,176, 196, 216, 234, 252, 273, 291,303, 326, 344, 374, 893, 411, 428, 449, 468, 488,

“ Norwich’’ and “Ipswich,” Great Eastern Railway Co.’s Steamboats, 71

Notes from Lancasliire, 16, 36, 56, 74, 92, 117,

176,    196, 214, 234, 262, 272, 290, 308, 326, 344,

410,    42S, 448, 468, 488, 508 Notes and Memoranda, 8, 23, 43, 65, 79, 105, 123, 147,

167, 183, 203, 221, 239, 263, 281, 295, 313, 335, 367, 381, 399, 415, 435, 455,475, 495

Notes from Scotland, 17, 37, 57, 75, 93, 118, 137, 157,

177,    197, 215, 235, 252, 273, 291, 309, 327, 345, 374, 393,

411,    429, 449, 469, 488, 509

Notices to Correspondents, 9, 29, 49, 67, 85, 107, 129, 149, 169, 189, 207, 227, 245, 265, 233, 301,319,337, SOI -3S5, 408, 421, 411, 461, 4SI, 5'Ji

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Remscheid Waterworks, Plan and Profile of Supply Area, 287, 288

Resistance to Rolling, Prof. R. H. Smith on, 413 Reynolds, Prof. O., on the Theory of the Indicator and Errors in Indicator Diagrams, 454 Rice Mills for the East, 135 Richmond Water Supply, The, 482 River Pollution, Professor Robinson on, 195 Rivers Running into Tideless Seas, 366 Rivetted Joints, Experiments on, 390 Rivetter, Messrs. Anderson and Gallwey, 491 Rivetting Machines, 69 Robson, Mr., Gas Hammer, 424 Rock-borers, Automatic Feed of, 487 Rock Drill for Mining, The Barrow Machine, 457 Rocket, The, 26, 47, 64, 127, 146,186 Rolling, Professor R. H. Smith on Resistance to, 413 Royal Institution, 37, 270 Liquid Films, a Soap Bubble, Prof. A. W. Riicker,

Sources of Electricity, Prof. Tyndall, 22, 89 Sunlight and the Earth’s Atmosphere, Prof. S. P. I Langley, 323

Royal Meteorological Society :

Exhibition of Sunshine Recorders, 102 Royal Scottish Corporation, Wm. Templeton, 321

Sr. Helen’s Waterworks, Kuowsloy Pumping Station, 416, 419, 436

St. Petersburg and Cronstadt Maritime Canal, 127

473

Letters to the Editor (continued):—

Obstructing the Midland Railway, Subscriber, 270 Packing Groceries ? Enquirer, 207 Panama Canal, The, John I. de Jongh, 34 Paper Rollers? T. W. S., 29 Pattern Plates ? Engineer, 337 Peat Moss Litter Machinery ? R. M., 227 Polishing Pebbles? D., 4S1 Pressures on Guns, J. W., 127 Preventing Incrustation in Boilers, Thos. Veasey and Co., 187

Preventing Shortness of Water in Steam Generators, B. H. Thwaite, 127

Prof. Hannay’s Electrogins? W. N. J., 403 Prof. A. Herschel on the Efficiency of Fans, A. T. Fraser, 408

Proof Tests, Geo. P. Qulverwell, 276

Proof Tests of Iron and Steel, Geo. F. Culverweli,

Proposed Widening of Old Broad-street, W- C. Unwin, 458

Pumping Machinery, Frank Pearn £

Purifying Feed-water, Wm. Brown,

Rail Joints, F. G. Field, 225 Railway Passenger Traffic, Clement E. Stretton, 47 Railway Signalling, Goods Driver, 225 Railway Signalling, 8. A. Croft, 213 Railway Signals, S. A. Croft, 243 Railway Signals, Express Driver, 187 Railway Rates, Fredk. T. Haggard, 83 Railways for India, Kerr, Stuart, and Co., 270 Raising Sunken Ships, H. T. M., 224 Ratchet Brace ? The, Enquirer, 189 Ratio of Contraction of Area to Elongation in Tested Bars, C. E. Stromeyer, 439 Ratio of Contraction of Area to Elongation in Tested Bars, W. C. Unwin, 419, 439 Ratio of Contraction of Area to Extension, C. E. Stromeyer, 487

Raworth’s Friction Gear, Browett, Lindley, and Co., 419, 441

Removing Crossheads, An Old Subscriber, 270 Rocket, The, Comet, 64 Rocket, The, W. Jeffery, 47 Rocket, The, J. Jenkins, 64 Rocket, The, Alfred Marson, 186 Rocket, The, Old Swannington Driver, 127 Rocket, The, Thos. West Smith, 146 Rocket, The, Robt. Stannard, 26, 47 Screw Mixture ? Vulcan, 207 Secondary Batteries, Bernard Drake, 27 Shipping Coal at Bristol, Fair Play, 127 Shelling Maize? C. E. W., 29

Shoeburyness Explosion, Thos. Knox Fortescue, 224 Small Dynamo-electric Machinos ? J. S., 29 Smith’s and Marshall’s Gland Packing, Marshall and Thunder, 243

Soudan Railway, A., H. G. Kunhardt, 146 Special Plant for Wagon Builders, Craven Bros., 35 Steam Hammers, Glen and Ross, 418, 499 Steam Hammers, Graham Stevenson, 438 Steel Guns, Sir Joseph Whitworth and Co., 5 Steel Plates for Bridge and Boiler Construction, Thos Turner, 82 Steel Ropes, N. Butchart, 67 Strain Diagrams, R..H. G., 419, 499 Street Maintenance and Subways, J. Gurdon L. Stephenson, 212

Strength of Springs ? Spirifer, 85 Stress and Strain Diagrams, W. C. Unwin, 403 Stresses on Roofs, Foreman Carpenter, 409 Suction Taking-off Apparatus, T. R. J., 441 Tan-burning Boilers ? J. G. N., 301 Tanks for Suakim, John Bellamy, 243 Tanks for Suakim, Fraser and Fraser, 277 Theoretical Efficiency of the Steam Engine, Robt. Gill, 409

Tidal Action, T. B. Lightfoot, 64 Tilbury Deep-water Dock, Thames, 408 Tilbury Deep-water Dock, Z., 317 Tin Boxes? A. W., 421 Tin-foil Machines? E. Z. H., 129 Tower Bridge, W. Davey Bennett, 384 Tower Bridge, The, R. Laybourne, 459 Tower Bridge, The, J. Somes Story, 439, 486 Town Heating by Steam, H. Gray, 162 Trade Profits ? X. Y., 385 Transmission of Power, Chaff-cutter, 227 Trevithick Memorial, Hyde Clarke, 499 Trevithick Memorial, The, John Davis, 487 Trevithick Monument and No Monument, A. Hyde Clarke, 458

Trial of a Compound Engine, R. Tinkler, 438 Trial of a Corliss Engine at Creusot, W. S., 212 Tricycle Making Machinery, Tricycle, 245 Triple Expansion Engines, W. S., 4 Triple Expansion Engines, Robt. Wyllie, 34 Vacuum Brakes—Jerks in Trains, Clement E. Stretton, 438

Ventilating Railway Carriages? Whirlwind, 301 Victoria Electric Lighting Installation, P. Walter D’Alton, 5

Water Gauges, Thos. R. Summerson, 269 Water Supply for the Suakim-Berber Route, An English Engineer, 186

Water Supply for the Suakim-Berber Route, S. Owens and Co., 186

Wilson’s Patent Piston Rings? P. I., 67 Wind Pressures on Roofs, Dorabju B. Rabadina, 83 Wind Pressures on Roofs, R. H. Graham, 126 Local Surveyors and Inspectors of Nuisances, Examination for, 387

Loch Katrine and the Glasgow Water Supply, 152 Lockwood and Carlisle’s Piston Rings, 181 Locomotive, American Passenger, The Mason Machine Works Co., 28

Locomotive Breakdown Steam Crane, Tail Vale Railway, 42, 48

Locomotive Compound, London and North-Western Railway, 349, 352

Locomotive, Compound, with Patent Starting Gear, Great Eastern Railway, Mr. T. W. Worsdell, 377, and Supplement, May 15 Locomotive Engine Boilers, 169 Locomotive Engines, Construction of, and some Results of their Working on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 225 Locomotive Engines in Portugal, 47 Locomotive Engines for the Suakim-Berber Railway, 215

Locomotive, Express, Midland Railway, 851, and

Supplement, May 8

Locomotive, Four-coupled Expross, Midland Railway, Supplement, February 6 Locomotive, Links in the History of the, 95 Locomotives, Mr. J. V. Bouton on the Construction of,

Locomotives, Compound, Mr. T. Worsdcll, 377 Lodge, Professor Oliver, 405 London’s Coal Supply, 462 London Main Drainage, 149

London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Bill, The, 306 London Sewage Enquiry, 403 Lost Energy, 311, 341

Lower Thames Valley Main Sewerage Bill, 463 Legal Intelligence :

Wasteneys Smith’s Patent “Stockless” Anchor, 143 Liabilities for Street Making, 151 Libelling a Colliery Company,

Light, Action of, in Diminishi Light, Wave Theory of, 405 Lighthouse Experiments, South Foreland, 815 Lighthouse Construction, Mr. C, Hi Wordingham on,

Lighthouse Illuminants, 225 Lighthouse Illumination, 284 Lighthouse, Mew Island, Belfast Lough, 25 Lightning Rod Testing Apparatus, Messrs. Siemens and Co., 70

Liquid Films—A Soap Bubble, 323 Link Spanner and Tube Vice, Bauer’s, 278 Links in the History of the Locomotive, 163 Lippett, Mr. A., Articles Made of Slag, Exhibited by at the Antwerp. Exhibition, 402

Litebaturk :

Alkali Makers’ Pocket Book, George Lunge and Hurter Ferdinand, 50

Almanack ftir die K.K. Kriegs Marine, 1885, 87

ay and Analyses of Iron and Steel, Thos. Baylev, 69 Descriptive Mineralogy, by Hilary Bauermann, 32*1 Electrolysis : Practical Information on Nickeling, Coppering, Gilding, Silvering, the Refining of Metals, and the Treatment of Minerals by Means of Electricity, by Hippolyte Fontaine,

Fourth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist of California, by Henry G. Hanks, 285 Future Naval Battles, and How to Fight Them, Admiral Sir George Elliott, 463 The Gas Manager’s Hand Book, Thos. Newbigging,

Geology of Weymouth, Portland, and the Coast of Dorsetshire, irom Swanage to Bridport-on-the-Sea, with Natural History and Archaeological Notes, Robert Damon, 68

Graphische Behandlung der Mechanischen Wiirme Theorie, Gustav Herman,

Lehrbuch der Telephonie u. Mikrophonir, C.

Grawinkel, 31 Modern Shipbuilding and the Men Engaged in it, by David Pollock, 363 Our Gold Supply, by Thos. Cornish, 303 Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra Cotta, &c., C. T. Davis, 87 Practice of Ore Dressing in Europe, by Wheaton B. Kunhardt, 69

Principles of Ventilating and Heating, and their Practical Application^. S. Billings, 229 Recommendations of United States Gun Foundry Board on Proposed Addition to the Establishments of the Gun Factories in the United States, 172 Report on the Manufacture of Coke, J. D. Weeks, 247 Stability of Ships, Sir E. J. Reed, 130 Technological Dictionary of the Physical, Mechanical, and Chemical Sciences, F. J. Wershover, 422 Technologisches WOrterbueh in Englischer u.

Deutscher Sprache, von Otto Brandes, 422 The Works Manager’s Handbook of Modern Rules, Tables, and Data for Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Millwrights, Boiler Makers, &c., W. S. Hutton, 443

Theory of Deflections and of Latitudes and Departures, J. W. Smith, 87

Treatise on Valve Gears, by Dr. Gustave Zeuner, Translated from the German, 209 Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Cost of Locomotive Power for Six Months, 97

Machine Tools, Messrs. Hulse and Co., 369 Mackinnon Pen, The, 250 Madagascar, 17

Madras and Colombo Harbours, 227 Madras Railway, Calicut Extension, 472 Madras Railway, Girders for Beypore and Ivallai Bridges, 472, 476 Magnesia Mine, A Great, 220

Magnetisation, Variations caused by, in the Length of Iron, Steel, and Nickel Rods, 414 Malet, Mr., Solid Barbed Wire Fencing, 445 Malleable Iron, On the Properties of, Deduced from its Microscopic Structures, 395 Malminot Viaduct, Montauban and Cahors Railway, 223, 231

Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Expross Engine (Supplement, January 2,1885), 2, 7 Manchester Ship Canal, The, 442 Manchester and Thirlmere, 37 Manchester Ship Canal Bill and Tidal Scour, 276 Mansion House and Bank Subway, 51 Marine Boiler by Road, Transporting, 279, 282 Marine Boilers, Efficiency of, 277, 279, 283 Marsden, Mr. H. R., Stone Breakers, 484 “Mason” Passenger Locomotive, 26, 28 Massey, Mr. W. H., 180

“Materials of Engineering,” from the “Indicator,”225 Matthewson's Sand Blast Apparatus and Process, 466 Mayhew’s Patent Boiler Feeder Co., Boiler Feeder, 425 Measuring a Vessel’s Stability, On a Mechanical Method of, 255

Mechanical Experiments, Conduct of, 30 Merchant Shipping, Increase in, 482 Mersey, Improvement of the, 163 Messenger and Co., Messrs., Full-way Valve, 379 Metallic Permanent Way, Inventions Exhibition, 464 Meteorological Progress, 246 Metropolitan Board, The Work of the, 386 Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railway, The, 175

Mew Island Lighthouse, Belfast Lough, 25 Michell, Mr. W. M., 238 Midland Railway, Obstructing the, 270 Mileage of Screw Shafts, 362 Mill, Break-Roller, Mr. J. Harrison Carter, 40 Mill Engines, Powerful, Messrs. Goodfellow and Matthews, 448

Mill and Purifier Feed, Self-Regulating, Mr. J. E. Wslsh, 497

Mill, Three-High Roller, Mr. J. H. Carter, 40 Millar’s Ribbon Wire, 280 Miller’s Coupled Buffers, 213

Mineral Wealth of Annam and Tonquin, French Commission to Inquire into, 18 Miners’ Safety Lamps, 61 Miners’ Strike, The, 320 Mines, Drainage in South Staffordshire, 68 Miscellanea, 8, 23, 43, 65, 79, 105, 123,147,167, 183, 203, 239, 263, 281, 295, 313, 335, 367,381, 399, 415, 435,455, 475, 495

Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Inventions Exhibition, 424, 432, 452, 401

Mogul Engine, American, 300, 306 Moncrieff Hydro-Pneumatic Carriage, Trial of, at Shoeburyness, 284 Monochromatic Telescope, On a, 391 Morse Cotton Press, The, 304

Napier, Mr. Robert D., 387

Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing Purposes,

al Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition, Naval Engineer Appointments, 37, 47, 64,109, 122,143, 197, 206, 220, 243, 280, 296, 322, 341, 351, 382, 419, 452, 487, 494

Navy, The, 82, 180

Navy and the Admiralty, The, 319

Needed Improvement, A, 284

New River Bridge betwixt Durham and Sunderland,

136, 156, 374, 392,

Nottingham, Mr. A. Brown on Five Years’ Municipal Work at, 402

Obituary :

Barlow, Mr. Peter Wm., 422 Dupuy De Lome, M., 109 Jackson, Mr. Thomas, 50 Jenkin, Prof. Henry Charles Fleeming, 483 Michetl, Mr. W. M., 238 Napier, Mr. Robt. D., 387 Samuda, Mr. J. D’Aguilar, 338 Thomas, Mr. Sidney Gilchrist, 131 Westinghouse, Mr. Geo., 104 Ocean Dock Scheme, The, 83 Oil, Gritty, 452

Old Broad-street, Proposed Widening of, 458 Ore Wagon and Draw Hook, Athus, 241 Ornamentation of Works in Iron, Appropriate, 63 Our Friend the Foreigner and his Wares, 209 Oxygen, Cheap, 83

Paddle Steamers for the Nile, 350

Paint Mills, 271

Palestine, Enterprise in, 166

Pall Mall Pavement, The, 209

Panama Canal, The, 34

Park Hill Hospital, Liverpool, 44, 45

Park and Pryce, Messrs., Train Protection Bar, 45G

Parson, Mr., Detachable Boring Tools, 465

Parson’s Patent High-speed Engine, 353

Patent, Another “ Fundamental,” 494

Patent Law, Continuity in, 162

Patent-office Delays, 501

Patent-office Joke, A, 426

Patents, Official Examination of, 245

Paving of the New London Street, 482

Peck’s Relieved Slide Valve, 173

Percy, Dr., Presidential Address, 385, 389

Permanent Way, Metallic, Inventions Exhibition, 464

Pen, The Mackinnon, 250

Penistone Railway Accident, The, 191

Petroleum as a Fuel, Use of, 351

Phosphates, Separation of, fr~*" cl"™    ⁺’ 'TVir.mna.

Gilchrist Process, 90 Photographing to Scale, 351 Pickering, Mr., Hoist Gear 434

Pier at St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, The New, 503 Pipe Flange, 233

Piston Rings, Lockwood and Carlisle's, 181 Pistons, Messrs. Durham and Churchill, 231, 243 Planing Machine, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., 473 Poiograph, Mr. C. H. Hinton on the, 91 Polarising Prisms, Some New Forms of, 195 Polychromatic Printing, 33

Poore, Dr., on Climate and its Relation to Health, 91, 135

Port Pirie, Deepening, 91 Portfolio of Working Drawings :—

Four Wheels Coupled Passenger Engine, Midland Railway {Supplement, Map 8)

Power for Wood-working Tools, 414 Presses, The Stiles and Parker Press Company’s, 145 Preventing Shortness of Water in Steam Generators, 127

Price’s Patent Spiral Candle-making Machine, 491 Printing Establishments in New South Wales, 17 Private Bill Legislation, 172, 180, 230, 251, 266, 324, 398, 478

Private Bills in Parliament, 180 Private Bills, Progress of, 109 Private Legislation, Prospective, 69 Private Wagon Risks, 482 Proof Tests, 276

Propeller for Shallow Draught, The Most Suitable, 256 Public Health, 145, 445 Pulley, A Large, 42

Pump, Vertical, Messrs. George Scott and Son, 452 Pump, Steam, Mr. Joseph Bernays, 356 Pumping Engines for the Hydraulic Machinery, Fort of Buenos Ayres, 185, 188 Pumping Machinery, 29 Pumping Machinery, Direct-acting, 204, 205 Putney and Hammersmith Bridges, The, 10S

Radial Valve Gears, Robert Hudson Graham on, 431, and June 29th, 1883, pp. 497-9 Radiation, Recent Researches on, 271 Rail Exports, Our, 171 Rail Joints, 224 Railway Accident, 152 Railway Accidents, 135 Railway Accident in Russia, 502 Railway Bills, The, 202

Railway Carriage Window, Mr. H. C. Gover, 478 Railway Coupling and Brake Power Regulations, Germany, 427

Railway', The Edinburgh Suburban and South Side Junction, 365 Railway Extension, 206 Railway Fatalities, Nine Months’, 166 Railway Joint Chairs, Mr. T. G. Hardic, 231 Railway Matters, 8, 23, 43, 65, 79, 105, 123, 147, 167, 183, 203, 221, 239, 263, 281, 295, 313, 336, 367, 381, 399, 415, 435, 455, 475, 495 Railway, The Metropolitan, 350 Railway Passenger Traffic, 47 Railway Preferences, 502 Railway Rates, 27, 67, 83, 151, 191, 462, 502 Railway Rates, Augmented, 27 Railway Rates and Charges, 191, 462 Railway Rates and Foreign Competitions, 502 Railway and Sea-borne Coal, 209 Railway Signals, 187, 213, 225, 243 Railways for India, 270 Railways of the World, 116 Rails, Creeping of, 85

Rails and Fastenings for Danish State Railways, 210,

211

Raising Sunken Ships, 224 Rating of Coal Colonies, 50 Rating of Machinery, 55, 602

Ratio of Contraction of Area to Extension, 458, 487 Ratio of Contraction of Area to Elongation in Tested Bars, 439

Reed, Sir Edw., on Hydro-mechanics, 454 Remscheid Waterworks, The, 219, 226, 238, 244, 287, 288

Remscheid Waterworks, Details of Pumping Engines,

323

Samuda, Mr., 338

Sand Blast Apparatus and Process, Matthewson s, 4od

Saw, The Britannia Company’s Treadle, 204

Saw, New Foot Power, 204

Schnetze’s Foundry Sand Mixer, 181

Schrabetz’s Anti-fluctuator for Gas Engines, 160

School of Forestry, Proposed, 481

Science and Art in Connection with Buildings, Mr.

W. Goldstraw on, 402 Scientific Mistake, A, 383

Scott and Son, Messrs. George, Vertical Pump, 452 Screw-cutting Tool, The Gardner and Woodbridge, Screw Shafts, Broken, 190

Seddon, Lieut.-Col. H. C., Appointment to Portsmouth, 278

Selected American Patents, 18, 38, 08, 76, 94, 120, 138, 158, 178. 198, 216, 236, 204, 274, 292, 310, 32S, 346, 376, 394. 412, 430, 450, 470, 490, 509 Selenium, Mr. Shelford Bidwell on the Action of Light in Diminishing the Resistance of, 414 Separator for Steam Boilers, 503 “ Servia” in a Gale, The, 229 Sewage at Aylesbury, Experiments on, 001 Sewage Question, The, 154 Sewer, Bursting of a, 459 Sewerage Works, Abergavenny, 102 Shaft Coupling, Mr. Jamieson, 21 Shaft-sinking Machinery, American, 114, 145 Shaping Machine, Heavy, 333, 334, 351 Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., Bottomloy’s Radia Axle-boxes, 473, 474

Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., rianing Machine,

Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., Portable Boiler Drilling, 473

Sheffield Correspondent on Steel Tubes for Ordnance, Our, 154

Sheffield District, 16, 36, 56, 74, 92, 118, 136, 157, 176, 196, 214, 234, 252, 272, 291, 308, 326, 344, 374, 392, 410, 428, 448, 468, 488, 508 Sheffield Steel and the Gun Factories, 31 Sheffield Steel for Heavy Ordnance, 228 Shephard and Sons, Messrs., Coal-washing Machinery,

445

Shipping Bounty Scheme, Failure of the, 171

Shipping Coal at Bristol, 127

Shipping Freights, 266

Ship Canal, Proposed New, 91

Ship Railway for Canada, A, 137

Ships, The Forms of, Sir Edw. Reed on, 454

Ships, Our New, 301

Ships, Steel, 303

Ships of War, Practical Measurement of the Comparative Fighting Efficiency of, 238 Slag, Articles made of, exhibited by Mr. A. Lippctt, at the Antwerp Exhibition, 402 Sleeping Cars, The First, 6 Slide Valves, Balanced, 343 Slide Valves, Friction of— sec Friction of Slide Valve, Relieved, 173 Sliding Scale in Iron Mining, The Now, 320 Sliding Scales in Iron Mining, 246 Sliding Scales in the Coal Trade, 387 Sloan and Hawks, Messrs., Automatic Brake, 427 Slotting and Key way Cutting Machine, Portable, 166 Smoke-Fog, a Five Ton, 382 Shoeburyness Explosion, The, 224 Shocburyncss, Fatal Accident at, 191 Shoeburyness, The Shell Explosion at, 207 Side Armour v. Horizontal Armour, 122 Siemens Bros, and Co., Messrs., Rawoith’s Friction Driving Gear, 397, 441

Signalling of the London and North-Western Railway,

489

Silk Cannon, 127

Simon-Carves Coking Process, Recent Results and Further Development of the, 395 Sintz Boiler Feeder, The, 141 Sir Henry Bessemer for New South Wales, A, 108 Soc. Lyonnaiso a Paris, 50-horse Power Horizontal Engine, 479, 480 Society of Arts, 25,109

Climate in its Relation to Health, Dr. Poore, 91,135 Medals Awarded by, 467

Prizes for Essays on “ London Reconstruction,” and “Housing of the London Poor,” 463 Results of the Examinations, 434 Society, Bath and West of England, 5, 57 Society of Civil Engineers, The American, 447 Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 391 Appropriate Ornamentation of Works in Iron, Mr. G. Richards Julian, 69

Indian Railway Network, 1884, Mr. Haugliton, 146 Steel Guns, Lieut. Charles Berthon, 220 Visit to the Works of the new Hammersmith and Putney Bridges, 414 Society of Engineers :

American Engineering Enterprise, Mr. Arthur Rigg, 182, 206

Cable Tramways, W. Newby Colam, 391 Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated, 302, 324 Society, King’s College Engineering :

Aerial Navigation, Mr. P. W. Adams, 195 Construction of Locomotives, Mr. V. I. Bouton,

428

Fuel, Mr. Collis, 271

Heat in its Relation to Combustion, Mr. R. B. Anderson, 341

Incandescent Lamps, Mr. W. P. Adams, 464 Lighthouse Construction, Mr. C. H. Wordingham,

454

Lighthouse Illuminants, Mr. C. H. Wordingham,

Petroleum as a Fuel, Use of, Mr. Smith, 351 Recent Marine Engineering, Mr. Duncan, 195 Steel, Mr. C. W. Atkinson, 135 Society, The Liverpool Architectural:

Science and Art in Connection with Buildings, Mr. W. Goldstraw, 402

Society, The Liverpool Engineering :

Recent Progress in the Public Supply of Hydraulic Power, Mr. E. B. Ellington, 116, 232 Relation between Engineering and Architecture, Mr. Goldstraw, 343

Science and Art in Connection with Buildings, Mr. W. Goldstraw, 402 Society, Manchester Geological :

Automatic Safety Lamp, Mr. J. 8. Burrows, 51 Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American : Computation of Energy, Mr. Robert H. Thurston,

Society : The Meteorological :

The Equivalent of Beaufort's Scale in Absolute Velocity of Wind, Dr. W. Koppen, 426 Note on a Peculiar Form of Auroral Cloud seen in Northamptonshire, Rev. Jas. Davis, 426 The Temperature Zones of the Earth Considered in Relation to the Duration of the Hot, Temperate, and Cold Period, and to the Effect of Temperature on the Organic World, Dr. W. Koppen, 426 Velocities of Winds, their Measurement, Lieut.-Col. H. S. Knight, 426 Society, The Physical, 156 Calculating Machines, Mr. Joseph Edmondson, 307 Characteristic Curves of Incandescent Lamps, Prof. J. A. Fleming, 271

Comparison between the Mercury Standards of Resistance Issued by M. Mascart with those of the British Association, Mr. E. T. Glazebrook, 494 Determination of the Heat Capacity of a Thermometer, On the, Mr. J. W. Clarke, 391 Error Involved in Prof. Quinke’s Method of Calculating Surface Tensions from the Dimensions of Flat Drops and Bubbles, Mr. A. M. Worthington, 494

Evaporation and Dissociation, On, Prof. W. Ramsay and Dr. S. Young, 391

Experiments showing the Variations caused by Magnetisation in the Length of Iron, Steel, and Nickel Rods, Mr. Shclford Bidwell, 414 Further Experiments in Spectrum Analysis, Mr. C. Clcminshaw, 271

Lecture Experiments on Spectrum Analysis, Mr. C. Cleminshaw, 91

494

391

a.

Mil-

503

Tenders (continued):—

Famham Main Sewerage, Mr.

, 478

Society, The Physical (continued):—

Manner in which Light Affects the Resistance of Selenium and Sulphur Cells, Mr. Shelfoid Bidwell,

Model Illustrating the Propagation of the Electro-Magnetic Wave, Dr. S. P. Thompson on a, 391 Monochromatic Telescope, On a, Lord Rayleigh, 391 Note on the Action of Light in Diminishing the Resistance of Selenium, Mr. S. Bidwell, 414 Note on the So called Silent Discharge of Ozone Generators, Mr. W. A. Snenstone, 391 On Certain Cases of Electrolytic Decomposition, Mr. J. W. Clark, 414

On the Spectial Image Produced by a Slowly Rotating Vacuum Tube, Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 414 On the Use of tsic l’s Prism, Mr. I. C. McConuel, 195 Poiograph, The, Mr. C. H. Hinton 91 Recent Researches on Radiation, Capt. Abnoy, 271 Self-recording Stre ss and Strain Indicator, Prof. H.

8. H. Shaw on Sir W. Thomson’s Quadrant Electrometer, Dr. John Hopkinson, 271

Some New Forms of Polarising Prisms, Mr. H. G. Madan, 195

Structure of Mechanical Models Illustrating some Properties in the Ether, Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald,

Theory of Illumination in a Fog, on the, Lord Rayleigh, 391

Winding of Voltmeters, on the, Professors W. E. Ayrton and John Perry, 494 Socieiy, The Royal Agricultural, 356 Soudan, Drinking Water for the, 172, 250 Soudan Expedition, 220 Soudan Railway, A, 130, 146, 149, 171 Southampton Waterworks 141 Society, Steam Engine Makers’, 134 South Kensington Museum, 46, 93, 120, 178, 205, 254, 310, 359, 409, 453, 505

South Yorkshire Coalowners and the Railway Companies, 266

Specific Heat and Latent Heat of Fusion, 459 Specifications, Construction of, 127 r-pcctrum Analysis, Lecture Experiments on, 91, 271 Speed Gauge, Mr. K. Hedges,

Spezia Plate Trials, Conclusion of the. 161 Spring Compound Buffer and Draw, Messrs. L. Sterne and Co., 485

Spring Wheel, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 397 Stability Balance, Heck’s, 255 Stagnation, H.M.S., 225 Staiths, Movable Coal, Mr. S. Butler, 400, 402 Standards of Length as Applied to Gauge Dimensions, Mr. George M. Bond, 447, 466 Standards of Length and their Subdivision, 142, 143, 194

Standards of Light, 302

Stanford's London Improvements Map, 134

Steam Boilers as Magazines of Explosive Energy, Mr.

R. H. Thurston on, 506 Steam Engine Economy, Practical, 462 Steam Hammers, 438, 499 Steam, How to Measure its Efficiency, 98 Steam Pump, Direct-acting, 261 Steamers on the Nile, 243 H.S. St. Andre, Trial Trip of, 166 Steamships, Economical, 21 S.S. “Eastwood,” Steel Boiler for, 477, 479 Steamship Insurance, 108 Steamship Trade, The, 68 Stoamship Trade in 1884, 21 Steamships and Crews, 87

Steamships and War Risks in Mutual Offices, 363

Steam Tramway, Economical, 46

Steam Tramways in London, 312

Steam Trawling in Brazil, 243

Steel, Mr. C. W. Atkinson on, 135

Steel, Basic, 31

Steel Boilers, 265

Steel Guns, 5

Steel Guns, Lieut. Chas. Berthon on, 220 Steel and Iron Shipbuilding, 404

Steel Plates for Bridge and Bjiler Construction, 82

Steel Plates, Cracking of, 83

Steel Rails for the United States, 120

Steel Ropes, 67

Steel Tin Plates, 152

S eel Tubes for Ordnance, our Sheffield Correspondent on—see Sheffield Correspondent Steering Gear, Epicycloidal, Mr. T. Archer, 493 Stern Wheel Steamboat for Brazil, 366 Sterne and Co., Messrs. L., Compound Buffer and Draw Spring, 485

Stiles and Parker Press Company’s Presses, The, 145 Stockport Gas Engine, The, 192, 193 Stone Breakers, Mr. H. B. Marsden, 484 Storm Signal Service in Canada, 46 Stothert and Co., Messrs. G. K., Horizontal Compound Condensing Engine, 420, 422 Stowage of Steamships, On the, 255 Strain Diagrams, 40', 419, 499 Strains on Circular Lock Gates, C H. Romanes, 77 Strand to Oxford-street, From the, 191 Stratton Separator Company, The, 503 Street Lighting in the City, 305 Street Maintenance and Subways, 189, 212 Street-Watering and Scavenging, 378 Street’s Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory, 18*4-5, 206

Strength of Mild Steel Plates and Rivets of Various Kinds used in Shipbuilding, 257 Strength of Rivetied Joints, Notes on the, 257 Stress and Strain Diagrams, 408, 419 Stress and Strain Indicator, On a Self-Recording, 391 Stresses in Girders, Simple Method of Calculating, 139, 140

Stresses on Roofs, 409 Strike in the Coal Trade, The, 284 Strike of Colliery Lads, A, 228 Strike, The Miners’, 320 Strike on the Wear, 332

Strike in Yorkshire, Effects on the Trade of the Recent, 462

Strikes, An Unconsidered Aspect of Modern, 441 Structure of Mechanical Models Illustrating some Properties in the Ether, 307 Substitutes for Hard Wood, 246 Suakim-Berber Military Telegraph, 341 Suakim-Berber Line, The, 284 Suakim-Berber Railway, The, 207 Suakim and Berber Railway, Epitaph to the Memory of, 466

Suakim and Berber Water-pipe, 206 Sugar Pan, a Great Vacuum, 6 Sugar Production, 503

Sunlight and the Earth’s Atmosphere, Professor Langley on, 323 Supplements :

Austrian Railway Diagrams for Estimating the Quantities of Girder Bridges, May 22, and p. 398 Compound Locomotive with Patent Starting Gear, Great Eastern Railway, Mr. T. W. Worsdell, May 15

Four-Coupled Express Locomotive, Midland Railway, Mr. Samuel Johnson, February 6th, 1885 Surface Tensions, Mr. Worthington on Professor Quinke’s Method of Calculating, 494

Tangye, Messrs., Gas Engine Governor, 424 Tank Locomotive for Metropolitan Traffic, Great Eastern Railway, (Supplement, March 13, p. 204) Tanks for Suakim, 243, 277 Tarakeswar Railway, The, 37 Telegraphy in Time of War, 441 Telephone and Telegraph Wires, 258, 265, 321, 343, 387 Telephone and Telegraph Wire Question, The, 258, 265, 321, 343

Templeton, Miss, 321, 343 Tenders

Bray, Co. Wicklow, for Extension of Concrete, Mr. P. F. Comber, 195

Darlaston Sewerage Works, Mr. E. Pritchard, 135 Engine, Pumps and Tanks for West Ham Union, 507

James Lemon, 135, Finchley Main Drainage, Mr. George W. Brumell,

210

Gasworks for the Schools and Workhouse of Mitcham, 487

Leicester, Borough Lunatic Asylum, Boiler for, Mr. J. Gordon, 312

Leicester Sewage Works, Boiler, 7ft. 30in. long, Mr. J. Gordon, 312 Luton Sewage Extension, 218

Nar, Wrought Iron Highway Bridge Over the, Mr. E. G. Mawbey, 154

North Bridge and Woodgate Improvements, 339 Nottingham Corporation, New Cattle Market, 439 Penrhyndendraeth Main Sewerage, Mr. Thomas Roberts, 398

Wednesbury Sewerage Works, E. Pritchard, 339 Wellington Waterworks, Mr. E. Pritchard, 135, 218 Tested Bars, Ratio of Conti action of Area to Elongation in, 419

Testing Machine, Mr. Wicksteed, 357 Theoretical Duty of Heat in the Steam Engine, On the, 256

Thermometer, On the Heat Capacity of a, 391 Thermometeis, The Astronomer Royal on, 456 Third Law of Motion, Professor W. H. H. Hudson on the, 199

Thomas, Mr. Sidney Gilchrist. 131 Thurston, Mr. R. H., on Steam Boilers as Magazines of Explosive Energy, 506 Tidal Action, 64

Tilbury, New Deep Water Docks at, 260, 262, 317, 351, 355, 408, 439, 479 Timber, The Preservation of, 503 Tin Can’s Mission, The, 398 Tin Trade, 143 Tipton Gasworks, The, 87 Torpedo Corps, Volunteer, 404 Torpedo Vessels, Foreign, 100 Torquay Waterworks, 338

Toulet, M., Captive Balloon Exhibited at Antwerp, 402

Tower Bridge, The, 133, 359, 360, 361, 384, 439, 486

Tower Bridge Scheme, The, 133

Tower System of Electric Lighting, The, 181

Towers, Mr., his Friction Experiments, 179

Town Heating by Steam, 162

Trade, Our Falling, 130

Traders and the Railway Bills, 130

“ Traveller’s Rest,” The, 228

Train Protection Bar, Messrs. Park and Pryco, 456 Tram-car Guard and Rail Cleaner, Mr. H. Conradi, 484, 485

Trevithick Memorial, 417, 434, 487, 499 Trevithick Monument and No Monument, A, 458 Tripier, Mr., Spherical Excentric, 417 Triple Compound Engine, Some Further Experience with, 256

Trossin’s Superheated Steam Engine, 249, 250 Trotter’s Wire Gauge, Messrs. Walter T. Glovor and Co., 181, 473

Tug Boat Paddle Wheels, 144, 146

Tug Boat, Messrs. A. Shanks and Co., 144, 146, 148

Tullis, Mr. J., on Driving Belts and Ropes, 507

Turbine Governor, Mr. Ilett’s, 603

Twin Screws, Maclaine’s, 315

United States Cruisers, 422 U.S. Despatch Boat “Dolphin,” The, 442, 446 United States Patents for Inventions Previously Patented Elsewhere, Duration of, 276 University College, Bristol, Engineering Department,

280

Vacuum, Apparatus for the Production of a, 332 Vacuum Brakes, Jerks in Trains, 438 Value of Vessels, 50

Valve, Full-way, Messrs. Messenger and Co., 379

Vice, ^Alfil^jJp, Coventry Machinists’ Co.

Victoria Electric Lighting Installation, 5 Vienna Storm, The, 466 Visits in the .Provinces Messrs. Greenwood’s Mill, Blackburn, 39, 41 Voltmeters, Professor Ayrton and John Perry, on the Winding of, 494

Wages of British Workmen, 130 Wagon Builders, Special Plant for, 35 Wagon Coupling, Mr. R. Morris, 305 Wales and Adjoining Counties, 17, 37, 57, 75, 93, 119, 137, 157, 177, 197, 215, 235, 253, 213, 291, 309, 327, 345, 375, 393, 411, 429, 449, 469, 489, 509 Wallasey Ferry Boats, “Snowdrop” and “Crocus,” 336, 340

Walsh, Mr. J. E., Self-regulating Mill and Purifier Feed, 497

War and Commerce, 299

War Material at the Inventions Exhibition, 396, 413 War Vessels, Old, 356

Washer-scrubber, Phoenix Gas, Messrs. G. Waller and Co., 378

Water Analysis, Mr. R. B. Anderson on, 454 Water Gauge, False, 34 Water Gauges, 269 Water Motors, 280

Water Purification by Iron on a Large Scale, 487 Water Purifying Apparatus, Messrs. Easton and Anderson, 372

Water Supply in Lancashire, 130 Water Supply of London, 49 Water Supply to London, Official Project for, 29 Water Supply by Meter, Advantages and Results of, 402

Water Supply in the Soudan, 191

Water Supply for the Suakim-Berber Route, 186

Wave Theory of Light, The, Prof. Oliver Lodge on, 40

Wear Coal Shipments, The, 229

Weather Signals in the United Sta‘es, 5

Wedding, Dr., on the Properties of Malleable Iron, 3

Weight, Virtue of, 49

Weimer, Mr. P. L. Eight Column Double-air Cylinder Blowing Engine, 3

Well Curbs, Indian State Railways, 24 Wenham Light, The, 363

Westgarth, Mr. W., Society of Arts Prize Essays, 463

Westinghouse, Brake, The, 130

Westinghouse, Sen., Mr. George, 104

Wheel Tooth Cleaning Machine, 314

Wheels for South Mahratta Railway, 258

Wheels for a Steam Roller, 87

Whip Crane, Messrs. Appleby Bros., 493

Whitworth Scholarships, 51

Wile’s Spring Hinge, 141

Wilkesbarre, U.S. A., Wire Rope Manufactured at, 345 Willan’s, Mr. P. W., Arrangement for Forced Draughts, 256

Winch, Steam, Messrs. Apploby Bros., 425 Winchester, Cost of Sewage Pumping, 210 Wind Pressure on Roofs, 83, 126 Winding Machinery, Portable, 383 Wire Fencing, Solid Barbed, Mr. Malet, 445 Wire Gauge, Trotter’s, 181, 473 Wire Stretcher, The Dean, 219

Wires Overhead v. Underground, Mr. Killingworth Hedges on, 426

Wood-Cutting Machinery, Improvements in, 101 Wood with Iron, Effect of Encasing, 494 Wood-Working Tools, Power for, 414 Woodhead’s Steam Hammer, 296 Wordingham, Mr. C. H., on Lighthouse Construction, 454

Working Hours and Trade Depression, 169 Wrightson, Mr. T., Centre Crane for Bessemer Casting Pits, 433

Yorkshire Coal Trade, Crisis in the, 229 Yorkshire Coal Industry, The, 190, 209 Yorkshire Miners and Labour Representation, 31

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