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INDEX.

Hiiigtrationg.

LIST OF NAMES.

Adams and Price, Locomotive and Machine Works, Pole Road Locomotive, 214 Allen and Co., Messrs. W. H., Combined Centrifugal Pumps and Engines, 339 Allen, Mr., Gauges, 166 American Bridges, 264, 278 American Iron Bridges, 209, 241 American Trussed Bridge, Isometrical View of, 179 Antwerp Exhibition, Condensing Engine, 120-H.P., M. Charles Nolet (Supplement January 1st, 1886) Athus Works, The Meuse Blowing Engine, 22, 23 Athus Steel Works, Vertical Section, Longitudinal through Melting Department and Transverse through Casting House, 59 Atkinson, Mr. James, Gas Engines, 8-H.P. Driving Works, Scale 100 lb. = lin., 278    "t

Australian Agricultural and Mining Company, Colliery Winding Engine for, Messrs. Tangye, 416, 435

Fields, Messrs., Soap Manufacture, 420 Figee Steam Pile Driver, The, 288 FitzGerald, Mr. Maurice F., Condensation of Steam in Cylinders, Indicator Diagram, 279

Barnett, Mr. Gas Engine, 7 Bates, Mr., Equilibrium Slide Valve, 317 Baxter and Co.. Messrs. W. H., Stone Breaker, 26 Beck and Co., Messrs., Instantaneous Hose Coupling,

338

Belgian State Railways, Express Locomotive, M. M. L. Bika, 132, 133

■Belgian State Railways, Four-coupled Passenger Engine, M. M. L. Bika, (Supplement February 5th, 1886)

Belgian State Railways, Goods and Shunting Engines,

Gallon, Mr. W., Constructing Stone or Concrete Piers on Breakwaters, 174

Galloway and Sons, Messrs., Barring Engine, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 500 Geikie, Professor, Volcanic Action in Great Britain Fig. 2, 162

German Railways, Metallic Sleepers, 438, 496, 498, 502, 504

Graham, Mr. R. H., American Bridge Design, 407 Gray, Mr. Macfarlane, Effect of Inertia in the Steam Engine, Diagram, 334, 368 Great Eastern, 1858, Screw Engines of the Messrs. Jas. Watt and Co., 369 Great Western Coupling Hook, 140 Great Western Railway Platforms, 140 Greenhill, Mr. A. G., Screw Propeller Efficiency, Diagrams, 427, 428

Greenock—Caissons, The James Watt Dock, 207 Greenock Harbour, General Plan, 206 Gruson’s Armour at Spezia, Front of Shield Developed, 379

Gruson’s Chilled Cast Iron Cupolas, 331 Gruson’s Turret, Segments of, 360, 361

S.S.,

Palmer Manufacturing Company, Frame Pulley, 155 Paris, Aquatic Circus, M. L. Edoux, ‘222 Parson, Mr., Parallel Shaft Rotary Engine, 41 Paul and Co., Messrs. M., Marine ^Engine, Edinburgh Exhibition, 487

Paul and Co., Messrs., Reversing Gear, Edinburgh Exhibition, 488, 489

Paul and Co., Messrs. M., Yacht Engine, Edinburgh Exhibition, 487, 488, 489

Paxman Boiler, Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co., 500 Pearn and Co. Messrs. F., Steam Pump for High-pressure Hydraulic Machinery, 154 Portsmouth Dockyard, Large Brake Lathe for, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 232

Pott, Lieut. C., Double Reflecting Goniograph, 133 Pregardien, Herr, Boiler, 207

Pulsometer Engineering Co., The “Deane” High-pressure Steam Pump, 471

SUBJECT MATTER.

Anchor Gear of the s.s. Algoma, Messrs. S. Baxter and Co., 143

Aquatic Circus, Rue St. Honors, Paris, 222 Arc Lamp, The Jaspar, 262

Armour at Spezia, Gruson’s, Front of Shield Developed, 379    r

Armour-clads, Unapproved, Q., 175 Ashpit Closed, Forced Combustion Boilers, Mr. Howden, 316

Atmospheric Line, Diagrams of, Professor G. C. Douglas, 122

Automatic Friction Brake, “ Heberlein System ” (Supplement April 2nd, 1886)

Q. Unapproved Armour-clads, 175

H., Rotary Engines, 145, 297

Hall, Mr., Gradual Reduction Cement Mill, 215, 225 Harfield’s Turning Gear for Barring Engines, 279 Belgian State Railways, Passenger and Express Harrington, Mr. J., Carriage Seat Springs, 288

Hawke, Mr. S. R., Injector Auxiliary, 182 Hawthorn’s and Co., Messrs. Chapman’s Air and Feed Pump, Edinburgh Exhibition, 487 “ Heberlein System,” The Automatic Friction Brake (Supplement April 2nd, 1886)

Heck, Mr., Mechanical Method for Finding the Stability of a Vessel,

Hett, Mr., 9in. Centrifugal Pump, Edinburgh Exhibition, 481

Heude, M. H., Lowering Concrete under Water, 90 Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., Messrs., Horizontal Engine, 61, 68

Hill, Mr. L., Bulkheads and Bulkhead Doors, 394 Hiogo, Hydraulic Machinery for Slipway at, Mr. H. J. Coles, 125

Howatson, Mr. A., Water Softener and Purifier, 400 Howden, Mr., Closed Ashpit, Forced Combustion Boilers, 316

Huddersfield Station Roof, Diagram, 17 Hughes, Mr , Ball Castors, Edinburgh Exhibition, 470 Hulse and Co., Messrs., New Swivel Tool Holder, 45 Hungarian Engine and Thrasher, 110, 111 Hungarian State Railways, Express Passenger Engine (Supplement April 30th, 1886), 352, 356 Hydraulic Engineering Company, Hydraulic Lubricator, Liverpool Exhibition, 457

Locomotives, 164

Bellasis, Mr. E. S., Flow in Open Channels, 126 Bertram, Messrs. O. and W., Compound Horizontal Condensing Steam Engine, Edinburgh Exhibition, 467

Birmingham Gas Works, 240ft. Gasholders, Mr.

Charles Hunt, 289, 393, 409, 410, 434 Brown and Co., Messrs., Furnace for Marine Boilers, Edinburgh Exhibition, 480 Bucharest, Competitive Turret Trial, at, 183 Bucharest, Turret Trial, The, 295 Budapest Exhibition, 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 110 Budapest Exhibition, Thrashing Machine, at the, 111 Buenos Ayres Sewage Works, Pumping Engines for, Browne and B-'by. 281, 282, 2S4 Burgess, Mr. F. C., Outside Cylinder Compound Locomotive, 82

fBurmah, Proposed Railways in. Map of, 24 Black, Hawthorn, and Co., Messrs , Metre Gauge Engine, Liverpool Exhibition, 45S Blackpool Electric Tramways, The, Mr. Holroyd Smith, 4, 5

Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, (Contracts Open) Elevation, Half Plan, 72 Bombay, New Roller Flour Mill, Mr. Henry Simon, 479, 484, 497, 498

Booth and Co., Messrs. Geo., Heavy Vertical Slotting Machine, 65

Boys and Cunynghame, Messrs., Steam Separator, 173

Rangoon, Rice Mill at, 263

Rapier, Mr., Apparatus for Removing the Gases from Molten Steel, 389

Rigg, Mr. Arthur, Momentum Diagrams of Steam Engines, 431, 432

Roberts-Austen, Mr. W. C., Impurities in Metals, Fig. 3, 162

Roots, Blower, The, 121,122

Rodney, H.M.S., Forced Combustion Arrangement on Board, 314

Rosario Waterworks, Engines, and Pumps, Messrs. E. Easton and Co., 376

Rowan, Mr., Steam Carriage at the Antwerp Trials, 242, 243, 244

Royal Albert Docks, Extension Work, Mr. Robert Carr, 146, 147

Royal Albert Dock Extension, Details of Timber Work Mr. Robert Carr, 128

Royal Albert Dock Extension, Plan and Sections of Entrance Lock, Mr. Robert Carr, 102, 103

Rush worth and Co., Messrs., Plate Edge Planing Machine, 288

Ball Castors, Mr. Hughes, Edinburgh Exhibition, 470

Barring Engines, Harfield’s Turning Gear for, 279 Bleaching Process, The Mather-Thompson, Messrs.

Mather and Platt, 224, 225 Blower, The Roots, 121, 122

Blowers, Root’s, Machinery for Making, Messrs. Thwaites, 324, 325

Blowing Engine, The Meuse, Athus Works, 22, 23 Bogie Carriage, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Liverpool Exhibition, 453, 454 Boiler, Herr Pregardien, 207 Boiler Explosion, East End, 441

Boiler, The Paxman, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 500

Boilers, Mr. E. J. Curtin, 215

Boilers, Locomotive, Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Rail 203

Boilers of the United States Cruiser “ Chicago,” 86

Bridge, American Trussed, Isometrical View of, 179

Bridge Design, American, Mr. R. H. Graham, 407

Bridge over the Sutlej, 16S, 172

Bridges, American, 264, 278

Bridges, American Iron, 209, 241

Bulkheads and Bulkhead Doors, Mr. L. Hill, 394

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Capel and Gaskill, Messrs,, Copying Press, 173 Cbadburn-Coldwell Company, The Automatic and Adjustable Tripping Coulter, 353 Chadburn-Coldwell Company, Seed and Manure Drill, 353

■“ Chicago,” Boilers of the U.S. Cruiser, 86 “ Chicago,” Engines of the U.S. Cruiser, 83 Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth and Putney, Sewerage of, Sir J. Bazalgette, 210, 228, 266, 270 -Clarke, Mr., Signal Wire Compensator, Messrs. Pearn and Co., 317

■Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Screw Jack for Threshing Machines, Bath and West of England Show, 471

Cole, Mr. H. A. B., Expansion of Steam in Triple Expansion Engines, 335

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Compound Electric-Light Engine, Messrs. Galloway and Sons, 412 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Electric Light Shed, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 373 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Garden Electric Light Shed, Messrs. Galloway and Sons, 413 Crampton, Mr. T. R., Locomotive, 353 Curtin, Mr. E. J., Boilers, 215 Curtin, Mr. E. J., Flue and Furnace Tubes, 215

Indian Clay Mould, 409

Indian Government, Compound Paddle-wheel Engines for the, 124

Indian State Railways, Iron Timber Trucks, 264

J. A., Stability of Ships, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 148 Jaspar Arc Lamp, The, 262

Joicey and Co., Messrs., Colliery Tank Locomotive, 45 Joy Mill, Failsworth, Steam Fire Engine, 90

Kensington, The National Agricultural Hall, 333 Kirkaldy, Mr. J., “Compactum” Feed-water Heaters,

381

Kottgen and Co., Messrs., Steel Scaffold Clamp, 316 Korting-Lieckfeld Gas Engine, Messrs. Korting Brothers, 247, 249, 250

Sarqeant, Mr. T. C., Reversible Steel Coulter, 343 Schonheyder and Maginnis, Messrs., Improved Drawing Paper Clips, 352 Sharpe, Mr. A. H. B., Dotting Pen, 381 Shirlaw and Co., Messrs., Twist Drill Grinder, 372 Simon, Mr. H., Three-high Roller Mill, Bombay Flour Mill Company, 497

Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway, Locomotive Boilers for. 203

Smith and Grace, 'Messrs., Interchangeable Pulleys, 26 Smith, Mr. G. F., Radial Arm Drilling Machine, 501 Smith, Professor R. H., Kinematic Diagrams, 258 S.S. Algoma, Anchor Gear of, Messrs. S. Baxter and Co., 143

S.S. Coot, Details of Cylinders of, Central Marine Engineering Company, 298, 299, 300 S.S. Coot, Triple Expansion Engines of (Supplement, April 16 th)

S.S. Prometheus, Compound Engine of the, Messrs.

R. Stephenson and Co., 187, 190, 194 Sterne and Co., Messrs. L., General Purpose Tool Grinder, Edinburgh Exhibition, 489 Sterne and Co., Messrs. L., Twist Drill Grinding Attachment, Edinburgh Exhibition, 489 Stevenson and Co., Messrs., Ladles for Carrying Molten Lead and Steel, 64

Stockholm, Tunnel for Foot Passengers, Captain Lindmark, 280 Stork, Strains in Cranes, 297

Stratford-on-Avon Sewerage Works, Mr. E. Pritchard, 8, 44, 48

Summers, Mr. T., Self-adjusting Pump Plunger Joint, 240

Sutlt j, Lattice Bridge Over the, 168, 172

Caissons, Greenock, The James Watt Dock, 207 Capillary Attraction, Professor Sir W. Thomson on, Fig. 1, p. 162

Carriage Seat Springs, Mr. J. Harrington, 288 Cement Roller Mill, Mr. Hall, 215, 225 Centrifugal Pumps and Engines, Combined, Messrs.

W. H. Allen and Co., 339 Chilled Cast Iron Cupolas, Gruson’s, 331 Cistern Valve, Mr. F. W. Mann, 125 Clay Mould, Indian, 409

Clips, Improved Drawing Paper, Messrs. Schonheyder and Maginnis, 352 Collar, Mr. Luke’s Patent, 114 Compensator, Signal Wire, Mr. Clarke, 317 Concrete under Water, Lowering, M. H. Heude, 90 Condensation of Steam in Cylinders, Indicator Diagram, Mr. M. F. FitzGerald, 279 Condenser Puzzle, A, 287

Condensing Engine, Details of, Antwerp Exhibition, M. Charles Nolet, 9

Copying Press, Messrs. Capel and Gaskill, 173 Corrugator, The Messer Roll, 262 Coulter, Automatic and Adjustable Tripping, 353 Coupling Hook, Great Western, 140 Cylinder, M. Lenoir, 6

Cylinders, Details of, of the s.s. “Coot,” Central Marine Engineering Company, 298, 299, 300

Dock Extensions, Royal Albert, Plan and Sections of Entrance Lock, Mr. Robert Carr, 102, 103 Dock Extension, Royal Albert, Details of Timber Work, Mr. Robert Carr, 128 Docks, Royal Albert, Extension Work, Mr. Robert Carr, 146, 147

Dotting Pen, Mr. A. H. B. Sharpe, 381 Dynamo Winding Machines, Messrs. Wilkinson and Lister, 263

Davey, Paxman, and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 372 Denison’s Testing Machine, 214 Destroyer and Submarine Gun, Ericsson’s, 60 Dewar, Prof., Liquefying Common Air, 80 Dewar, Prof., On Meteorites, Illustration of the Rigidity acquired by Bodies moving at High Velocities, 34

Dewar, Prof., On Meteorites, Diagram of their Orbits, 66

Dickson Bros, and Co., Messrs., Machine-cut Files, 174 Douglas, Mr. Geo. C., Diagrams of Atmospheric Line, 122

Douglas, Sir J., Lighthouse Lantern, 296, 302 Drouin, M., on the Establishment of Raili tions, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 161

Duffy and Sons, Messrs., Wood-block Flooring, 240 Dutch Railway Company, Interlocking Points and Signals adopted by, 141

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Bogie Carriage, Liverpool Exhibition, 453, 454 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Express Bogie Engine, Mr. Barton Wright, The Vulcan Company, Liverpool Exhibition (and Supplement, June 11th) 463 Lauder, Mr., Lubricator, 207 Lenoir, M., Cylinder, 6

Lightfoot, Mr. T. B., Refrigerating and Ice-making Machinery, 396, 428, 429, 508, 509 Liverpool Exhibition Building, 460 Liverpool Exhibition, Ground Plan of, 380 Liverpool Tramways, Mr. C. Dunscombe, 392 Lockwood, Mr., Leather Scourer, The Edinburgh Exhibition, 470

London and Colonial Engineering Company, zontal Engine called the “ Scotian,” 165 Luke, Mr., Patent Collar, 114 Lytham Lifeboat, Messrs. Forrest and Son, Liverpool Exhibition, 459

Hori-

Thomson, Professor Sir W., Capillary Attraction, Fig. 1, 162

Thomson, Mr. W. B., Triple Expansion Engine, Liverpool Exhibition, 462

Thomson, Sir Wm., Mariner’s Compass, 3, 4 Thurston, Professor, Patent Oil Tester, 435 Thwaites, Messrs., Machinery for Making Root’s Blowers, 324, 325

Trent Gas Engine, The, Mr. R. Simon, 401 Turnbull’s Expansion Gear, Messrs. O. and W. Bertram’s Engine, Edinburgh Exhibition, 468

Vogdt, Mr., Metallic Permanent Way, 338 Vyrnwy Masonry Dam, The, 99

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Eachus, Messrs., Sewer Ventilator, 52 East End Boiler Explosion, 441 East Indian Railway Ferry Steamer, 251 Eddystone Lighthouse, Model of, Liverpool Exhibition, 457

Edinburgh Exhibition — Distribution of Electric Lights, 468

El well-Parker Secondary Battery Gauge, 182 Ericsson’s Destroyer and Submarine Gun, 60

Walljngford, Water Supply of Small Towns, 120, 121 Walthamstow, Sewage and Sludge Pumps, Messrs.

Hayward, Tyler and Co., 480, 481 Wandsworth New Sewers and Sewage Aqueduct, Sir J. W. Bazalgette, 210, 228, 266, 270 Warren, Mr. E. C., Graphic History of Three Test Pieces of Steel, 313

Watts and Co., Messrs., Piston Ring, Bath and West of England Show, 472

Westgarth, Mr. Tom, Modem Practice in Slide Valves, 112, 113

Westinghouse Engine and Gulcher Dynamo, Edinburgh Exhibition, 470

Wilkinson and Lister, Messrs., Dynamo Winding Machines, 263

Wilkinson and Lister, Messrs., Twist Drill Machine,

339

Wilkinson, Mr. W. W., Pulley Covering, 182 Williams and Co., Messrs. A. and H., Self-governing Turbine, Bath and West of England Show, 472 Nile, Stem-wheel Steamer for the, Messrs. Yarrow Wilson’s Low-water Valve and Alarm, Mr. J. Fletcher, and Co., 101, 106

Nolet, M. Charles, Details of Condensing Engine,

Antwerp Exhibition, 9

Mann, Mr. F. W., Cistern Valve, 125 Mather-Thompson Bleaching Process, The, Messrs.

Mather and Platt, 224, 225 Mechlin, Locomotive and Carriage Shops at, 140 Mersey, H.M.S., Forced Combustion Arrangement on Board, 314

Mersey Tunnel Railway, Tank Locomotive for, Messrs.

Beyer and Peacock, 150 Messer Roll Corrugator, The, 262 Midland Counties, Remarkable Flue Collapse, 154, 155 Mougin and Grusen Turrets at Bucharest, The, 186 Mougin Turret, The, 183

Mumford, Mr. A., Engine and Roots’ Pump, 173 Mumford, Mr. A. G., Marine Pumping Engine, 182

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Effect of Inertia in the Steam Engine, Diagram, Mr. Macfarlane Gray, 334, 368

Electric Light Engine, Compound, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Messrs. Galloway and Sons, 412

Electric Light Shed, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 373

Electric Light Shed, Garden, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 413

Electric Lights at the Edinburgh Exhibition, Distribution of, 468

Electric Tramways, The Blackpool, Mr. Holroyd Smith, 4, 5

Engine, Barring, Messrs. Galloway and Sons, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 500

Engine, Compound, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 372

Engine, Compound, of the s.s. “Prometheus,” 187, 190, 194

Engine, Compound Horizontal Condensing Steam, Messrs. O. and W. Bertram, Edinburgh Exhibition,

467

Fairdairn and Wells, Messrs., Screw ForgingMachine,

233

Otto v. Steel, 35

Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., Messrs., Vertical Tandem Compound Surface Condensing Engine, 27, 30 Worthington Pumping Engine, Messrs. Simpson and Co., 232

Wright, Mr. Wellman, Gas Engine, 6

Engine, Condensing, M. Charles Nolet, Antwerp Exhibition (Supplement January 1st, 1886)

Engine, Express Bogie, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Mr. Barton Wright, The Vulcan Company, Liverpool Exhibition (Supplement June 11th), 463 Engine, Four-cosipled Passenger, Belgian State Railways, M. M. L. Bika (Supplement February 5th, 1886)

Engine, Horizontal, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 61, 68

Engine, Horizontal, London and Colonial Engineering Company, 165

Engine, Marine, Messrs. M. Paul and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition, 487

Engine, Metre Gauge, Messrs. Black, Hawthorn, and Co., Liverpool Exhibition, 458 Engine, Parallel Shaft Rotary Engine, Mr. Parson, 41 Engine, 10-horse power Poi table, Budapest Exhibition, 110

Engine and Root’s Pump, Mr. A. Mumford, 173 Engine, Triple-expansion, Mr. W. B. Thomson, Liverpool Exhibition, 462

I nline, Vertical Tandem Compound Surface Conden- Hydraulic Slipway at Hiogo, Mr. H. J. Coles, 125 sing, Messrs. Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., 27, 30

Engin>, Westinghouse. and Gttlcher Dynamo, Edinburgh Exhibition, 470

Engine, Yr.cht, Messrs. M. Paul and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition, 487, 488, 489

Engines, Compound Paddle-wheel, for the Indian Government. 124

Engines, Goods and Shunting, Belgian State Railways, Kinematic Diagrams, Prof. R. H. Smith, 258

Impurities in Metals, Mr. W. C. Roberts-Austen, Fig. 3, 162

j Injector Auxiliary, Mr. 8. R. Hawke, 182

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Plan of Greenock Harbour, 206    I Sewerage Works, Stratford-on-A.von, Mr. E. Pritchard,

Plan of Liverpool Exhibition, 380    8, 44, 48

Plate Edge Planing Machine, Messrs. Rushworth and j Sewers and Sewerage Aqueduct at Wandsworth, Sir Co., 288    J. W. Bazalgette, 210, 228, 266, 270

j Plunger-Joint Pump, Mr. T. Summers, 240    I Slide Valve, Equilibrium, Mr. Bates, S17

Pneumatic Dynamite Gun, The, 64    I Slide Valves, Modern Practice in, Mr. Tons. West-

Points and Signals, Interlocking, Dutch Railway ! garth, 112, 113 Company, 141    ; Slutting Machine, Heavy Vertical, Messrs. Gee. Booth

Pulley Covering, Mr. W. W. Wilkinson, 182    | and Co., 65

Pulleys, Interchangeable, Messrs. Smith and Grace, 26 Soap Manufacture, Messrs. Fields. 420 Pump, Air and Feed, Chapman's, Messrs. Hawthorns    Stability of Ships, J.    A., Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 148

and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition, 487    Stability of a Vessel,    Mechanical Method for Finding

Pump, Centrifugal 9in , Mr. Hett, Edinburgh Exhibi- the, Mr. Heck, 306 tion, 48 L    Steam Carriage at the Antwerp Trials, Mr. Rowan.

Pump, The “Deane’ High-pressure Steam, The    242, 243, 244

Puisometer Engineering Company, 471    Steam Pde Driver, The Figee 288

Pump, Steam, for High-pressure Hydrauhc Machinery, Steam Separator, Messrs. B ,ys and Cunynghame, I7S Messr*. F. Pearn and Co., 154    steel Coulter, Reversible, Mr. T C Sargeant 34 i

Pumping Engine, The Worthington, Messrs. Simp- Steel. Graphic History of Three Test Pieces of Mr JL son and Co., 232    o. Warren, 313    ‘

Pumping Engine, Marine, Mr. A. G. Mumford, 182    Steel-making Ladles,    Messrs. Stephenson and Co.. St

Pumping Engines for Sewage Works, Buenos Ayres,    Steel Scaffold Clamp,    Messrs KSttgen and Co 316

Messrs Brown and Boby, 281, 282, 284    Steel Works, The Athus, Vertical Section. Longitu.-

Pumps for Sewage and Sludge, Walthamstow,    dinal through Melting Department, and Transvers«

Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 480, 481    through Casting-house, 59

Stern-wheel Steamer for the Nile, Messrs. Yarrow Co., 101, 103

Stone-breaker, Messrs. W. H. Baxter and Co., 2€ Strains in Cranes, Stork, 297 Testing Machine, Denison's, 214 'thrashing Machine at the Budapest Exhibition, 515. Tool-grinder, General Purpose, Messrs. L. Sterne ami Co.. Edinburgh Exhibition, 489 Tool-holder, New Swivel, Messrs. Hulse and Co., 45 Tramways, Liverpool, Mr. C. Dunscombe. 392 Trucks, Iron Timber, Indian State Railways, 264 Tunnel for Foot Passengers, Stockholm, Captaim Lindmark, 280

Turbine, Self-governing, Messrs. A. and H. Willisims and Co., Bath and West of England Show, 472 Turret, The Mougin, 183 Turret, Segments of Herr Gruson’s, 360, 3«1 Turret Trial at Bucharest, Competitive, 183 Turret Trial, The Bucharest, 295 Turrets, The Mougin and Gruson, 186 Twist Drill Grinder, Messrs. Shirlaw and Co., 372 Twist Drill Grinding Attachment, Messrs. i„ S and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition,

Twist Drill Machine, Messrs. Wilkinson and Lister,

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Engines, Rotary, 97 Engines, Rotary, H., 145, 297

Engines, Triple Expansion, of the s.s. “ Coot ” (Supplement, April 161A)

Engines of the United States Cruiser “Chicago,” 83 Exhibition Building, Liverpool, 460 Expansion Gear, Turnbull’s, Messrs O. and W. Bertram’s Engine, Edinburgh Exhibition, 468 Expansion of Steam in Triple Expansion Engines, Mr. H. A. S. Cole, 335

Express Passenger Engine, Hungarian State Railways (Supplement, April 30th, 1886), 352, 356

Feed-water Heaters, “Compactum,” Mr. J. Kirkaldy, 381

Ferry Steamer, East Indian Railway, 251 Files, Machine cut, Messrs. Dickson, Bros., and Co., 174

Fire Engine, Steam, Joy Mill. Fails worth, 90 Flow in opea Channels, Mr. E. S. Bellasis, 126 Flue Collapse, Remarkable, Midland Counties, 154, 155

Flue and Furnace Tubes, Mr. E. J. Curtin, 215 Forced Combustion Arrangement on board H.M.S. “ Rodney,” 314

Frame Pulley, Palmer Manufacturing Co , 155 Furnace for Marine Boilers, Messrs. Brown and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition, 480

Gas Engine, Mr. Barnett, 7 Gas Engine, The Korting-Liekfeld, 247, 249, 250 Gas Engine, Mr. Wellman Wright, 6 Gas Engine, The Trent, Mr. R. Simon, 401 Gas Engines, 8-horse power Driving Works (scale 1001b. = lin.), Mr. J. Atkinson, 278 Gas-holder Tanks, 240ft., Birmingham Gasworks, Mr. C. Hunt, 289

Gas-holders, ?40ft., Birmingham Gasworks, Mr. Chas. Hunt, 393, 409, 410, 434

Gases from Molten Steel, Apparatus for Removing, Mr. Rapier, 389 Gauges, Mr. Allen, 166 Goniograph, Double-Reflecting, Lieut. C. Pott, 133 Gunboat “ Destroyer,” and Submarine Gun, Eric.-ison’s,

Gun, Pneumatic Dynamite Gun, 64

Hose Coupling, Instantaneous, Mr. Vogdt, 338 Hydraulic Lubricator, Hydraulic Engineering Company, Liverpool Exhibition, 457

Lathe, Large Break, for Portsmouth Dockyard, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 232 Leather Scourer, Lockwood’s, The Edinburgh Exhibition, 470

Lifeboat, Lytham, Messrs. Forrest and Son, Liverpool Exhibition, 459

Lighthouse Lantern, Sir J. Douglas, 296, 302 Lighthouse, Model of the Eddystone, Liverpool Exhibition, 457

Liquefying Common Air, Prof. Dewar, 80 Locomotive, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 353 Locomotive and Carriage Shops at Mechlin, 140 Locomotive, Colliery Tank, Messrs. Joicey and Co., 45 Locomotive Express, Belgian State Railways, M. M. L. Bika, 132, 133

Locomotive, Outside Cylinder Compound, Mr. F. C. Burgess, 82

Locomotive Pole Road, Adams and Price, Locomotive and Machine Works, 214

Locomotive Tank, for Mersey Tunnel Railway, Messrs. Beyer and Peacock, 150

Locomotives, Passenger and Express, Belgian State Railways, 164

Low-water Valve and Alarm, Wilson’s, made by Mr.

T. Fletcher, 381 Lubricator, Mr. Lauder, 207

Mariner’s Compass, Sir Wm. Thomson, 3, 4

Masonry Dam, The Vymwy, 99

Metallic Sleepers, German Railways, 438, 496, 498, 502, 504

Meteorites, Diagram of their Orbits, Prof. Dewar on, 66

Meteorites, Prof. Dewar on, Illustration of the Rigidity acquired by Bodies moving at High Velocities, 34

Momentum Diagrams of Steam Engines, Mr. Arthur Rigg’s, 431, 432

National Agricultural Hall, Kensington, 833

Oil Tester, Prof. Thurston’s Patent, 435

Permanent Way, Metallic, Mr. Vogdt, 338 Piers on Breakwaters, Constructing Stone or Concrete, Mr. W. Gallon, 174

Piston Ring, Messrs. Watts and Co., Bath and West of England Show, 472

Radial Arm Drilling Machine, Mr. G. F. 8mith, 501 Railway, Bombay, Baroda, and Central India iC tracts Open), Elevation and Half Plan, 72 Railway Platforms, Great Western, 140 Railway Stations, M. Drouin on the Establishment of, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 161

Railways in Burmah, Map of Proposed, 24 Refrigerating and Ice-making Machinery,

Lightfoot, 396, 428, 429, 508, 509 Roof, Huddersfield Station, Diagram, 17 Reversing Gear, Messrs. Paul and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition, 488, 489 Rice Mill at Rangoon, 263

Roller Flour Mill, Bombay, Mr. Henry Simon, 479, 484, 497, 498

Roller Mill, Three-high, Mr. H. Simon’s, for the Bombay Flour Mill Company, 497 Roller Mill, Two-high, Mr. H. Simon’s, for the Bombay Flour Mill Company, 497

Screw Engines of the s.s. Great Eastern, Messrs. J. Watt and Co., 369

Screw Forging Machine, Messrs. Fairbairn and Wells, 233

Screw Jack for Thrashing Machines, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, Bath and West of England Show, 471

Screw Propeller Efficiency, Diagrams, Mr. A. G. Green-hill, 427, 428

Secondary Battery Gauge, The Elwell-Parkor, 182

Seed and Manure Drill, The Chadbum-Coldwell Company, 353

Sewer Ventilator, Messrs. Eachus, 52

Sewerage of Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth and Putney, Sir J. B izalgette, 210, 228, 266, 270

terse

489

339

Volcanic Action in Great Britain, Professor Geikxe, Fig. 2, 162

Water Softener and Purifier, Mr. A. Howatson, 406 Water Supply of Wallingford, 120, 121 Waterworks, The Rosario, Engines aud Pumps, Mesertf. E. Easton and Co., 376

Winding Engines, Colliery, Australian Agricultural and Mining Company, Messrs. Tangye, 416, 435 Wood-block Flooring, Messrs. Duffy and Sons, 249

jfttigceUaneoutf*

and Steel

161

353

221. 222

Prometheus,” 187,

Ahingdns Town Council 42

A • -ideut on the North-Western Railway, Fatal, 506 Admiralty Coefficients, 477 Ad uiralty Coefficients, by Robert Mansel, 387 Aero-steam Engines, 506 Air and Feed Pump, Chapman’s, 487 Air Locks and Shaft Tubes, Construction and Testing of, 354

Alfreton Rural Sewerage, 135 Allen’s G luges, 166

American Bridge Design, R. H. Graham, 179, 407 Ame iean Bridges, 278, 279, 296, 327 American Iron Bridges, 208, 226, 241, 264 American Notes, 17, 37, 55, 77, 95, 115, 135, 175, 197, 217, 235, 253, 291, 309, 327, 345, 363, 383, 403, 423, 449, 473, 493. 513

American Steam Engines, 188, 215 Amsterdam Water Supply, 491 Amsterdam Waterworks, 473 Anchois on the s.s. “ Aigoma,” Baxter’s, 143 Ancient Geography of Britain, Piofessor W. Boyd Dawkins, 2»0

Anglo-Romano Gas Company, The, 36 Antwerp Exhibition as it Ought to be, 73 Antwerp Tramway Locomotive Trials, 87 Aquatic Circus, An, 221, 222

Arc Lamp Convenient for Use with the Duboscq Lantern, 308

Arc Lamp, The Jasper, 262 Armour-clads, Unapproved, 151 Artillery Experiments in Roumania, 36 Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors:

Stratford-on-Avon Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, Mr. A. T. Davis, 46 Association, The Rail Trade. 192 Athus Iron and Steel Works, The, 22, 23, 59 Athus Iron and Steel Works, The Meuse Blowing Engine, 22. 23

“ Atlantic,” The New Racing Sloop Yacht, 491 Atlantic Telegraph Competition, 70 Automatic B akes in the United States. 249 Automatic Friction Brake, Heberlein System (Supplement April 2nd, 1886), 259 Awards to Artisans for Inventions, 189

Barbed Fencing, 306

Bath and West of England Show, 441, 471 Piston Ring, Messrs. J. Watts and Co., 471, 472 Screw Jacks for Thrashing Machines, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, 471 Self-governing Turbine, Messrs. A. and H. Williams and Co., 472

Battery Gauge, The Elwell-Parker Secondary, 182

Ball Castors, Hughes’, 470

Barnett’s Gas Engine, 7

Barometers, Exhibition of, 231

Bates’ Equilibrium Slide Valve, 317

Baxter aud Co., Messrs. W. H., Stone Breaker, 26

Baxter’s Anchors, 143

Belgian Engineers and Metal Sleepers, 235

Belgian Express Locomotive, 132, 133

Belgian Rolled Girders, 109

Belgian Rolled Joists, 134

Bidder’s Earthwork Tables, On the Application of, for Heights other than Whole Feet, 395 Birmingham Gasworks, 240ft. Gasholders, 289, 343, 393, 409, 434

Blackpool Electric Tramway, 4, 5, 344, 362 Blast Furnace Slag, Notes on a Rare, 389 Blast Furnaces, Certain Accessory Products of, 389 Bleachii g Process, The Mather-Thompson, 224, 225 Blow-holes in Open hearth Steel, 389 Blower, The Root’s, 121, 173 Blowers, Machinery for Making Root’s, 324 Blowing Engine, The Meuse, Athus Iron Works, 22

Blue Heat, Injurious Effect of a, on Steel and Iron,

162

Board of Trade and Railway Rates. 171 Bogie Carriage, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 453, 454

Boiler Explosion, The East End, 441 Boiler Explosions, 265, 5ll Boiler Explosions, The Prevention of, 505 Boiler Flue, Paxman’s, 54 Boiler Flues, 74

Boiler Flue, Remarkable, 154, 155 Boiler, The Paxman, 591 Boiler, Tregardien’s, 2u7 Boiler Setting, 465 Boilers, Curtin’s, 215, 234, 253 Boilers, Steam, Mr. V. J. Boutar on, 421 Boilers of the United States Twin-cruiser “Chicago,” 79, 86

Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company, 72

Bombay, New Roller Flour Mill, Mr. H. Simon, 479, 482, 484, 497, 498

Books Received, 109, 219, 358, 441 Booth and Co., Messrs. Geo., Heavy Vertical Slotting Machine, 65 Brakes, Automatic, 85 Brakes at the Inventions Exhibition, 259 Brazil, Railways in, 317

Brennecke, M., On the Construction and Testing of Air Locks and Shaft Tubes, 354 Brickmaking, Mr. Henry Ward on, 343 Bridge Building in America, 255 Bridge, Osney, Oxford, 51 Bridge over the Sutlej, 168, 172 Bridge, Tower, 204, 209 Bridges, American, 278, 279, 296, 327 Bridges, American Iron, 208, 226, 241, 264 Brighton Electric Railway, The, 401 British Association, The, 400 British Shipbuilding in 1885, 155 Brown X Prismatic Gunpowder, 237 Brussels, International Railway Congress (see Railway Congress)

Bucharest, Turret Trials at, 183, 186, 295 Buenos Ayres Sewage Works, Pumping Engines for, 281, 282, 284

Buffer Springs, Sterne’s, 489 Building Stone in the United States, 159 Bulkheads and Bulkhead Doors, 394 Bulkheads, Cillision, 129

Burmah and Siam, Map of Proposed Railways in, 24 Bursting of a 43-ton Gun on H.M.S. “ Collingwood,” 357, 374

Calorimeters, 148

Canada, Intercolonial Railway of, 263 Canal Projects in the United States, 137 Canals, Number of, under the Control of Railways, 383

Canals, The Elbing Highland, 499 Canterbury Water Supply, 139

Canvey Island Scheme and the Metropolitan Board, 108

Capillary Attraction, Professor Sir W. Thomson on,

Carbutt, Mr , Presentation to, 590

Carpenters, Worshipful Company of, London Wall, 136

Carron Company’s Award Scheme, The, 309

Cast Iron, Constituents of, 408

Casting, Wet Sand for, 473

Catalogues, 69

Catalogues, Trade. 72

Cement Roller Mill, Hall’s, 215, 225

Certificates for Eoginemen, 478

Chadburn, Cold well, and Co.’s, Seed and Manure Drill,

Chains, Good and Bad, 70, 135, 144, 151, 174

Chains, Good and Bad, 196, 209, 234, 252, 265, 297 Chapman’s Air and Feed Pump, 487 Chemical Treatment of the London Sowage, 303 “ Chicago,” The United States Twin Cruiser, 79, 83, 86, 87

Chimney Construction, Tall, 11 Chimney, The Tallest, in the World, 74 Chimneys, Tall, 54 Chromatic Photometry, On, 244 Chromium, In the United States Production of, 77 Circus, An Aquatic Paris,

Clarke’s Signal Wire Compensator, 317 Close Tenders, 253

Clyde, New Iron Shipyard on the, 352 Coal Gas, Some Modern Improvements in the Manufacture of, 475 Coal in Transylvania, 365 Coaling Stations, Our, 397 Cobalt in the United States, Production of, 95 Colliery Winding Engines for the Australian Agricultural and Mining Company, 410, 416 “ Collingwood” Accident and our Guns, The, 417 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 357, 464 Electric Light at the, 412, 413, 433 Electric Light Shed, 372, 373 Commercial Parliament, 171

Comparison of Locomotives, Auto-motors, and Tram-cars, worked by stored-up Energy, 395 Competition in Shipbuilding, 273 Compound Locomotives, 74. 91, 114 Condensation of Steam in Cylinders, 171, 279 Condenser Puzzle, A, 265, 287, 297 Congreaves’ Composite Steel, 28 Construction in Earthquake Countries, On, 37 Contracts Open :

Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 72 Indian State Railway, Punjab Northern Railway, Iron Timber Trucks, 264

Indian Railway, Steam Paddle Ferry Steamer, 25> Locomotive Engine Boilers, for Sind, Puujab, and Delhi Railway, 203

Paddle-wheel Engines for the Indian Government, 123

Conversion Tables for French and English Measures, No. 1, Length, Metres and Feet, Centimetres and Inches, Kilometres and Miles (Supplement, February 5th, 1886)

Converting Existing Compound Engines and Triple Expansion, 334

Copper in the United States, 275 Copying Press, Capel and Gaskell’s, 173 Correction, A, 279 Corrugator, The Messer, 262 Coulter, Automatic and Adjustable Tripping, 353 Coulter, Sargeant’s, Reversible Steel, 343 Coupling Hook, Great Western, 149 Couplings, Automatic, 52 Couplings, Railway, 75

Crampton, Mr. T. R., New Design for Locomotive Engines, 353

Critical Temperatures of Bodies and their Thermal Expansion as Liquids, 318 Cruiser for Spain, A, 262 Curtin’s Boilers, 215, 234, 253, 265 Curves, Mr. W. H. Collis, 405 Cutlery, False Marking of, 170 Cutting Machine, Oval, Mr. J. Lyall, 458 Cutting and Re surfacing our Wood Pavement, 36 Cylinder Condensation in Steam Engines, by C. L.

Gateley, 84 Cylinder, Lenoir's, 6

Danger to English Manufacturers, 33 D’Arcy’s Experiments on Flow in Pipes, On an Un noticed Point in, Professor W. 0. Unwin, 359 Deane High-pressure Steam Pump, 471 Deep Borings and Water Supply, 74

Denison’s Testing Machine, 214, 250 Destroyer and Submarine Gun, Ericsson’s, 0s Dhurmsala Meteorite, The, 80 Diameters of Gas Screws, Standard, 327 Difficult Search, A, 265 Dilatancy, 211

Dismasting of Sailing Ships, The, 398 Don, Experimental Works for Improving the Fxirw.ft'-of the River, 405 Dotting Pen, Sharpe’s, 381 Drainage of Richmond, Surrey, 378 Draughtsmen in London, 265 Draughtsmen. The Pay and Position of, 358 Drawing Paper Clips, Messrs. Schonheyder Maginnis, 352

Drawings by Signal, Transmission of, 70 Drill, New Seed, Com, and Manure, 363 Durability of Iron and Steel ships, 495 Dynamo Machines, Testing the Commeraial Bfi.cknrr of, 193, 209

Dynamo Winding Machines, 263 Dynamos, The Efficiency of, 213

Eachus, Messrs., Sewer Ventilator, 52 East-end Boiler Explosion, The, 441 Eddystone Lighthjuse, Model of the, 456 Education of Engineers, The, 247 Educational Parasites, 342, 362 1886. 11

Effect of Frost on Roads, 351 Elbing Highland Canals, The, 498 Electric Christmas Tree, An, 29

Electric Light at the Colonial and Indian ExMbitfe&» 372, 373, 412, 413, 433 Electric Light Engines, 49o Electric Light Fire Damp Indicator, On an, 613 Electric Light at Muncaster Castle, 216 Electric Light in Theatres, 225 Electric Lighting Act, Ttie, 99

Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (No. -3) Uf.lL 383

Electric Lighting Bill, The New, 212 Electric Lighting Bill Abandoned. The, 607 Electric Lighting Department, Edinburgh JBx&t.br.tfe*v 468

Electric Lighting Legislation, 486

Electric Lighting in a Tobacco Manufactory, 436

Electric Railway, The Brighton, 401

Electric Rdlways, Mr. W. P. Adams on, 513

Electric Tramways. 29

E ectric Tramways, Blackpool, 4, 5

Electrical Problem, 73

Electrical Purification of Copper, 435

Electricity in 1885, 32

Electro-chemistry, Professor Dewar, 277

Electrolysis, 28

Electro-motive Force with Discharge of a Rattevy, F a’l of, Paget Hicks, 181 Elementary Mechanics, 114

Elliott Brothers, Messrs., Business now carried or *,t St. Martin’s-lane, Charing-cr-oss, 142 Emigration ? What is the Truth about, 57 Engine, Barring, Mes-rs. Gallaway and Sms, 509 Engine, Compound, Bombay Flour Mill, 484 Engine, Compound Horizontal Condensing Steam, Messrs. O. and W. Bertram, 467, 468 Engine, Compound, of the s.s. *• D~

199, 194

Engine, Condensing, M„ Charles Nolet (Sivpplcir.vrJt January Isf, J8s6), 9

Engine, Express Passenger, Hungarian State Railways (Supplement April 30th, 1889), 343 Engine, Four-coupled Passenger, Belgian State Railways (Supplement February 5th, 1886), 101 Engine, Gas, The KOrting-Lieckfeld, 246, 249 Engine, 150-Horse Power Horizontal, Messrs. Hick. Hargreaves, and Co., 61, 68

856

90

333, 339

316

103

151

Engine, Hon* intal, London and Colonial Engineering Company. 165

Engine, Metre Gauge, Messrs. Black, Hawthorn, and Co., 45s

Engine, The Meuse Blowing, Athus Iron and Steel Works, 22, 24 Engine, The Parsons, 41

Engine, Paul’s Compound Marine, 487, 488, 489 Engine, 10-Horse Power Portable, at the Budapest Exhibition, 110

Engine and Root’s Pump, Combined, 121, 173 Engine, Triple Expansion, Mr. W. B. Thomson, 462 Engine, Vertical Tandem Compound Surface Condensing, Messrs. Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., 27, 30,

Engineering Association of New South Wales, 70 Engineering at Cambridge University, 230 Engineering Cases in the Law Courts, 54 Engineering, A D ;gree in, 898, 433 Engineering in Miniature, 231 Engineering Progress in Italy, 231 Engineering Scheme, Important, 131 Engineering Students, 104 Engineei ing Trades in 1885, The, 36 Engineers in the Colonies, 464 Engineers, The Education of, 2S0, 326 Engineers in the Field, 26 Engineers in the Navy, 212 Engines, Aero-steam, 506 Engines, American Steam, 188, 215 Engines, B rring, 279 Engines, Electric Light, 490

Engines, Express Bogie Passenger, Lancashire and Yorkshire Bailway (Supplement June llfA, 1886), 463,

472

Engines, Gas, 249, 278, 340 Engines Gas, Mr. Brydges on, 237 Engines, Gas, Wright’s and Barnett’s, 6, 7 Engines, German, 213

Engines, Goods and Shunting, Belgian State Railways, 320, 323

Engines for the Indian Government, Compound Paddle, 123, 124

Engines of the New United States Cruisers, 79, 83, 338, 339

Engines, Parallel Shaft Rotary, 41

Engines, Rotary, 52, 53, 75, 97, 104, 145, 175, 226, 297,

:U'i

E gines, Screw, of the Great Eastern Steamship, 1858,

864)

Engines, Simple Formula* for, 297 Eugines, Triple Expansion, 66, 152, 208 Engines Winding, for the Australian Agricultural Company, 435

Engines, Yacht, Edinburgh Exhibition, 487 English Engineer, Extraordinary Career of an, 88 E glish Goods, New Markets for, 88 Equilibrium Slide Valve, Bates’s, 317 Ericsson's Destroyer and Submarine Gun, 60 Exhibition, The Antwerp, 9, 242, 243 Exhibition of Barometers, 231 E * hi bit ion, The Budapest, 110 Exhibition, The Berlin Industrial National, 489 Extiibition Building, The Liverpool, 460 Exhibition, The Colonial and Indian (See Colonial and Indian Exhibition)

Edinburgh International Exhibition, The, 350, 388 Chapman’s Air and Feed Pump, Messrs. Hawthorns and Co., 4»7

Compound Buffer Springs, Messrs. Sterne and Co., 489

Compound Horizontal Condensing Steam Engine, Messrs. O. and W. Bertram, 467 Compound Marine Engine, Messrs. M. Paul and Co.,

487

Electric Lighting Department, 468 Expansion Gear, Turnbull’s, to Bertram’s Engine, 468

General Purpose Tool Grinder, Messrs. Sterne and Co., 489

Reversing Gear, Messrs. M. Paul and Co., 488, 489 Twist Drill Grinding Attachment, Messrs. Sterne and Co., 4S9

Yacht Engine, Messrs. M. Paul and Co., 487, 488 Exhibition, The Liverpool (See Liverpool International Exhibition)

Exhibition, A Miners’, 466

Expansion in Compound Engines, 79

Expansion Goar, Turnbull’s, to Bertram’s Engine,

168

Expansion of Mercury between 0 deg. and 39 deg. C.,

Explosion of Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, 318 Explosion at Messrs. A. and R. Tod’s Flour Mills, 297 Explosives, 439 Export Coal Trade, 109

Fairbairn and Wells, Messrs., Screw Forging Machine, 233

Fair-Trade and No Trade, 144, 145 Feed-water Heater, Kirkaldy s “ Compactum,” 381 Feed- water Heaters, 510 Ferry Steamer, E ast India Railway, 250, 251 Figee Steam Pile Driver, 288 Files, Machine Cut. 174 Filiform Silver, On the Giowth of, 244 Fire Engines, Steam, for the Manchester Corporation, 66

Fire Engines, Steam, for Mills, 90 Fireplaces, Domestic, 129 Fires, London, 130

Flexible Crank and Propeller Shafting, 335 Floods of May, 1886, The, 491 Flow in Open Channels, 126 Flow of Water in Pipes, 1, 21, 104 Flow of Water in Pipes, The, Professor W. C. Unwin, 1 Flue Collapse, A Remarkable, 154, 155 Fluids and Solid Metals, Properties Common to, Prof. Roberts-Austen, 278

Fly-wheels, Small, An American Paper on, 37 Forced Combustion, 74

Forced Combustion in Furnaces of Steam Boilers, 314 Forced Draught, 49, 54

Forced Draught, by James Patterson and Magnus Saudison, 307

Foreign Competition, 211, 213, 399 Foreign Competition in England, 286 Foreign Vessels in the Coal Tr.»de, 378 Forth Bridge, The, 372

Forth Bridge, Presentation to Mr. W. P. Meik, 90 Forty-Knot Ships, 351, 394, 422, 433, 478, 487, 510 Forty Knots an Hour, 374

Fox, Morgan and Co., Messrs., Annual Wood Report, 45

Frame Pulley, Palmer’s, 155 Freeboard of Well-decked Steamers, 321 Free Trade and No Trade, 53, 74, 104, 126,167, 208, 226, 252, 290, 297, 344 French Navy, The, 424 French Ordnance, 33 French Torpedo Boat Experiments, 213 Frost on Different Roadways, Effect of, 332 Fuel and Smoke, 414

Furnace for Marine Boilers, Messrs. John Brown and Co., 481

Gvlland M., 365

Galloway and Sons, Messrs., Barring Engine, 500

Galvanometer, Modified Maxwell’s, 308

Gas Engine, Barnett’s, 7

Gas e ngine, The Trent, 401

Gas Engiue, Wright’s, 6

Gas Engines, 249 278, 340

Gas Engines, Mr. Brydges, 237

Gas Eogines, Residuum in, 326

Gasholder Tanks, The Largest in the World, 289

Gasholders, The Largest in the World, 401

Gas Poker, Hill’s, 881

Gas Producers, Mr. F. J. Rowan on, 60

Gas Production, 192

Gas Screws, Standard Diameters of, 327

Gas Supply of London, 485

Gaseous Explosive Mixtures, The Properties of, Abstracted and Translated by 8. H. Thwaite, 2 Gaseous Fuel, Fumice heated with, 122 Gauges, Allen’s, 166 German Engines, 213 German Opinion of Scotch Pig Iron, 433 Glasgow Coal-gas and Air Mixtures, 318 Glasgow Waterworks, 464 Goniograph. Double Reflecting, 133 Good and Bid Work, 107, 131, 145, 174, 195, 209, 325 Great Eastern Steamship, 349, 369, 485 Greenock Harbour, General Plan, 205 Greenock Harbour, The James Watt Dock, Caissons, 206, 207

Gru-ou's Armour at Spezia, Trial of, 331, 360, 378 Gruson’s Turret, Segments of, 360 Guns by !• lectricity, Working, 131 Guns for Italy, 458

Hall’s Gradual Reduction Rolls for Hard Substances, 215. 225

Hind Grenades for Extinguishing Fires, 248 ^Hawkesbury Bridge, The, 286, 362 'Hawthorn and Co.’s, Messrs., Compound Yacht Engines, 488

Heating Feed Water at Sea, 303, 351, 374 Heating Railway Carriages, 273

Heating and Ventilating in the Royal Holloway College, 5 1

Hell Gate Explosion, 501

Hett’s 9in. Centrifugal Circulating Pump, 481

H.M.S “ Fearless,” 240

H.M.S “Howe,” 66

Hiek, Hargreaves, and Co, Messrs., 150-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 61, 68

High-speed Engines at the Inventions Exhibition, 29

Hill’s Gas Poker, 381 Hiogo, Hydraulic Slipway at, 125 Holyoke, Mass., Work done for the Preservation of the Dam at, 383

Hose Coupling, Instantaneous, 338 H 'Watson’s Water Softener and Purifier, 400 “ Howe,” H.M.S., 66 Huddersfield Station Roof, 17

Hughes’, Prof., his address at the Society of Electricians, 101

Hughes, Prof., his Latest Discoveries, 169

Hughes, Prof , on Self induction, 197

Hulse’s New Swivel Tool-holder, 45

Hungarian Engine and Thrasher, 110

Hungarian Railways, Express Locomotive, 343, 352,

Hydraulic Engineering Suggestion, 153 Hydraulic Lubricator, Hydraulic Engineering Company, 467

Hydraulic Passenger Lifts at the Mersey Railway Statioos, 3 i2

Hydraulic Presses and Hollow Steel Spindles, 69 Hydraulic Pumping Engine, Pulsometer Engineering Company, 4/1

Hydraulic Slipway at Hiogo, 125 Hjdraulics, Mr. C. W. Atkinson on, 137 Hyperbolagraph, On a, 513

Ice Age, The Great, Professor R. S. Ball on, 119 Impurities in Metals, 239

Impurities in Metals, Mr. W. Chandler-Austen, 120, 162

Inclined Shaft Rotary Engines, 75 Indian Castings, Oo Certain Descriptions of, 409, 415 Indian Railway Company’s Ferry Steamer, 250, 251 Indian (State Railways, Punjab N Railway, 264 Indicating Gear for Winding Engines, 435 Indicator, The, 109

Induced v. Forced Draught for Marine Boilers, Mr. W. A. Martin, 352

Inertia in the Steam Engine, Effect of, 363 Injector, Auxiliary, Mr. S. R. Hawke, 182 Injectors, 279

InoTitute, City and Guilds of London, 189, 490 Steam Boilers, Special Course of Lectures on, Professor J. Perry, 290 Institute, The Gas, 422 Institute of Great Britain, 8anitary, 231 Institute, The Iron and Stmel, 332 Application of Very High Powers to the Study of the Microscopical Structure of Steel, Dr. Sorby, 407

Blow Holes in Open Hearth Steel, Mr. J. Head, 889 Certain A cessory Products of Blast Furnaces, Mr. T. Blair. 389

Constituents of Cast Iron, The, Mr. Turner. 408 Endurance of Steel Rails, The, Mr. F. W. Webb, 408 Indian Castings, On Certain Descriptions of, Mr. C. Purdon Clarke, 409, 415

Neutral Lining for Metallurgical Furnaces, On a, Mr. F. Gautier, 408

Notes on a Rare Blast Furnace Slag of the Composition of Gehlenite, Mr. Hilary Bauermann, 339 Origin and Progress of the Manufacture of Tin Plates, Mr. P. W. Flowers, 37L Dr. Percy’s Inaugural Address, 370 Steel Wire of High Tenacity, Dr. Percy, 389 Wrought Iron Conduit Pipes, Mr. Hamilton Smith, 407

Institution of Civil Engineers, 216, 268, 285, 297, 399, 499

Brickmaking, Mr. H. Ward, 343 Construction in Earthquake Countries, Mr. John Milne on, 37

Explosion of Homogeneous Gaseous Mixtures, Mr.

Dugald Clark on the, 318 Gas Producers, Mr. F. J. Rowan on, 60 Historical Notice and Constitution of, 436 Hydraulic Passenger Lilts at the Underground Stations of the Mersey Railway, by Mr. W. E. Rich 382

Injurious Effect of Blue Heat on Steel and Iron, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 162 Mersey Railway, Ttie, Mr. Francis Fox, 382 Modern Machine Tools and Workshop Appliances for the Treatment of Heavy Forgings and Castings, Mr. W. W. Hulse, 422 On the River Seine, Mr. L. P. Vernon-Harcourt, 204 Visit of the Students to Messrs. R. E. Crompton and Co.’s Works, 300

Water Purification—Its Biological and Chemical Basis, Percy F. Frankland, 318 Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland.

Modern Practice in Slide Valves, Mr. Tom Westgarth,

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Northeast Coast, 4i0

Forced Draught, by Jas. Patterson and Magnus Sandison. 307

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 50, 72 Refrigerating and Ice making Machinery and Appliances, Mr. T. B. Lightfoot, 394, 396 Institution of Naval Architects:—

Brief Review of the Prog>ess of Mild Steel, and the Results of Eight Years’ Experience of its Use for Shipbuilding Purposes, Mr. B. Martell. 313 Closed Stokeholes, Mr. Richd. Sennett, 313 Converting Existing Compound Engines and Triple Expansion Engines, Mr. H. A. B. Cole, 334, 368 Experience in Propulsion with Three Screws, M. M. Marchal, 334

Flexible Crank and Propeller Shafting in Lieu of Rigid Shafting for Marine Propulsion, Mr. J. F. Hall, 335

Forced Combustion in Furnaces of Steam Boilers, Mr. Howden, 314

Present Aspect of Mild Steel for Shipbuilding, Mr. J. Ward, 313

Programme for the Session of 1886, 290 Proposed Steam Lifeboat with Special Reference to its St.ibiiity, Mr. Ludwig Benjamin and Mr. J. M. H. Taylor, 334

Speed Trials of Recent War Ships, On the, Mr. W. H. White, 305

Use of Steel Castings in lieu of Iron Forgings and

Institution of Naval Architects {continued,,-.— Brass Castings in Building and Fitting ishops, &c., Mr. E. C. Warren, 313 Intercolonial Riilway of Canada, 263 International Competitive Trials of Seed and Manure

Drills, 336    -    -I    _

Invention for Steamship Captains, A Useful, 57 Inventions, Awards t > Artisans for, 189 Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 17, 37, 55, 75, 93, 115, 135, 157, 175, 197, 217, 235. 253 273, 291, 309, 327, 345, 363, 383, 403, 423. 449, 473, 491, 511 Iron, Metal, and Coal Industries of Russia, Progress of, 231

Iron, Reduced Production of, 466

Iron Shipbuilding Our Competitors in, 239, 257

Iron Shipyard on the Clyde, New, 352

Iron and Steel Ships Durability of, 4y5

Iron Stocks and Production, 51

Iron Trade, The 322

Isomeric Mixtures, Properties of Gaseous Explosive Mixtures, 2

Italian Competition, 358 Italy, Steel Rails for, 858

Jack, Mr. Alexander, 237 Jaspar Arc Lamp, The. 262

Joicey and Co., Messrs., Colliery Tank Locomotives, 45

Joy Mill Company, Failsworth, Steam Fire-engine for,

Kensington, The National Agricultural Hall, Kinematic Diagrams, Prof. R. H. Smith’s, 257 Kirkaldy’s Compactum Feed-water Heater, 381 Korting Gas Engine, Dr. Otto’s Patent and the, 265, 278

Korting-Lieckfeld Gas Engine, The, 246, 249 Kottgen and Co., Messrs. H., Steel Scaffold Clamp,

Labour in Europe, 119, 139,180

Ladles for Carrying Molten Iron, Messrs. Stevenson and Co., 64, 72 Ladles, Steel-making, 64, 72

Lathe for Portsmouth Dockyard, Largo Brake, 232 Lattice Bridge over the Sutlej, 168, 172 Lauder’s Lubricator, 207 Launch of the “ Orizaba,” 390

Launches and Trial Trips, 18, 75, 93, 158, 217, 234, 306, 363, 383, 424, 474, 511 Law of Copyright, 253 Lea, The River, 91 Lead Imports and Exports, 170 Leadbeater’s Railway Chair, 232 Leaders:

1886, 11

Accident to Torpedo Boats, 192

Aero-steam Engines, 506

Annual Report of the Metropolitan Board, 417

Antwerp Tramway Locomotive Trials, 87

Atlantic Telegraph Competition, 70

Bath and West of England Agricultural Show, 441

Belgian Rolled Girders, 109

Board of Trade and Railway Rates, The, 171

Boiler Setting, 465

Bursting of a 43-ton Gun on Board H.M.S. “Colling-wood,” 357

Canterbury Water Supply, 130

Canvey Island Scheme and the Metropolitan Board,

Catalogues, 69

Chemical Treatment of the London Sewage, 803 Collingwood Accident and our Guns, The, 417 Collision Bulkheads, 129 Commercial Parliament, 171 Compound Locomotives, 153 Control of Railways, 213

Convention of Millers and Milling Engineers, 153 Cost of Steamship Insurance, 33 “ Danger to English Manufacturers,” 33 Danger of Overhead Wires, 50 Development of Railways in China, 49 Dilatancy, 211

Dismasting of Sailing Ships, The, 398 Domestic Fireplaces, 129 Drainage of Richmond, Surrey, 878 Education of Engineers, The, 247 Educational Parasitism, 342 Electric Light and the British Mu»eum, 71 Electric Lighting Bill, The New, 212 Electric Lighting Bill Abandoned, The, 507 Electric Lighting Legislation, 486 Electricity in 1885, 82

Engineering Association of New South Wales 70

Engineering Degree, An, 398

Engineering Progress in Italy, 231

Engineers at Cambridge University, 230

Engineers in the Navy, 212

Explosives, 439

Export Coal Trade, The, 109

Facts and Science of Water Supply, 342

Fatal Accident on the North-Western Railway, 506

False Marking of Cutlery, 170

Foreign Competition, 211, 3a9

Foreign Competition in Englani, 286

Foreign Vessels in the Coal Trade, 378

Forced Draught, 49

Forty Knots an Hour, 436

Free-board of Well-decked Steamers, 321

French Ordnance. 33

French Torpedo Boat Experiments, 213

Future of the Steam Engine, 212

Gas Production, 192

Gas Supply of London, 485

German Engines, 213

Good and Bad Chains, 70, 151

Good and Bad Work, 107, 131

Great Eastern, The, 485

Hand Grenades for Extinguishing Fires, 248

Hawkesbury Bridge, The, 286

Heating Feed-water at Sea, 303

Hydraulic Engineering Suggestion, 153

Important Engineering Scheme, 131

Indian and Colonial Exhibition, The, 357

Institution of Civil Eugineers, 26-', 235, 399

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 50

Italian Competition, 358

Iron Stocks and Production, Si

Iron Trade, The, 322

Large Reservoir, A, 507

Lead Imports and Exports, 170

Legislation and Electric Lighting, 440

Liquid Fuel, 31

Loading of Ships, 192

London Fires, 130

Loss of the “ Oregon,” The, 229, 341 Man v. Machine, 507

Mechanical Work in the Chemical Trade, 441

Mersey Railway, The, 343

Metropolitan Sewage and the Thames, 34

Miners’ Industrial Exhibition, 466

Minimum Rates of Freight, 322

New Electric Lighting Legislation, 486

New Markets for Euglish Goods, 88

“Nile ” and “ Trafalgar ” Controversy, The, 505

Nordenfelt’s Submarine B iat, 130

Northumberland Coal Trade, 231

Osney Bridge, Oxford, The, 51

Our Coaling Stations, 397

Our Roofs and the Snow, 51

Over-running a Platform at Kingswear, 170

Patent Law Amendment, 441

Patent-office, The, 193

Patent-office Administration, 33

Pay and Position of Draughtsmen. The, 358

Pile-driving, 267

Prevention of Boiler Explosions, The, 247 Prevention of Boiler Explosions, 505 Professor Hughes’ Latest Discoveries, 169 Proposed Railways in Barmah and Siam, 399

Leaders (continued):—

Purification of vv ater by Means of Iron, 32 Rail Trade Association, 192 Hailway Accident in Soutn Australia, 358 Railway Half-year, The, 486 Rill way Rates' Bill, The, 235 Railway Regulations in Germany, 286 Railway Traders and Mr. Mimdellas Bill, The, 231 Rating of Machinery and the Propo ed Amendment of the Employers’ Liability Act, 268 Road Repairs, 50

Royal Agricultural Society, The, 230, 418, 465 Reduced Production of Iron, 4o6 Reduction of Wages in the Engineering and Iron Trades, S3

Reservoirs above Ground, 71 Richmond Sewerage, The, 109 Safety of Well-decked Steamers, 358 Sanitary Condition of the Houses of Parliament, 466

Sanitation in London Suburbs, 193 “Shtffiild ” and Sheffield Trade-marks, 213 Shipbuilding in 1885, 2»8 Shipbuilding in Miniature, 231 Ships Sold and Bought by Foreigners, 88 Sludge, 170

South Durham 8alt Borings, 399

South Staffordshire Mill and Forge Wages Board,

Steam Lifeboats, 324 Steamships’ Earnings and Expenses, 213 Steel, The Behaviour of, 169 Steel Production at Jarrow, 33 , Steel Ships, 377

Tests for Steel Weapons, 88 Tools for the Colonies, 193 Tilbury Docks, The, 322 Torn-ad'>es, 397 Torpedo B .ats, 69 Torpedo Boats, Fast, 248 Tower Bridge, The, 5 7

Train Thrown over a Sea Wall into the Sea, 70 Transmission of Drawings by Signal, 70 Triple Expansion Engines, 152 United States Cruiser “ Chicago,” 87 Unapproved Armour-clads, 151 United States Navy, The, 31 Vyrnwy Dam, The, 439 Wages, 267

Wages Reductions, 304 Wiiham New Sea Channel, 378 Work and Wages, 191. 377 Working Guns by Electricity, 131 Leather Scourer, Lockwood’s, 470 Legal Intelligence :

Caseboun.e and another v. The Engineer Newspaper, 442

Church's Petition—Wilson’s Objection, 223 Driffield and E. Riding Pure Linseed Cake Company v. The Waterloo Mills Cake and Warehousing Company, 123

The Germ Milling Company v. Robiuson, 510 John G wvnne v. Drysdale and Company, 223 Luke’s Application for Patent No. 5156, 1886, 89,

114

Musgrave and Sons, Limited, v. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 122

Otto v. Steel, 35. 47, 62, 91, 156 Legislation and Electric Lighting, 440 Lenoir’s Cylinder 6 Lettkrs to the Editor: —

A Condenser Puzzle, Erector, 297 A Correction, W. Johnson, 279 Aloe Fibre Machinery? T., 465 American Bridge Design, R. H. Graham, 296 American Bridges, W. B. Coventry, 264, 279, 327 American Bridges, R. H. Graham, 226, 264 American Bridges, Inventus, 264 American Bridges, H. Reilly, 2 H, 327 American Bridges, Robert H. Smith, 203, 241, 278 Analysing Oil? E. D., 11 Analysing Oils, W. Henry Stanger, 74 Antwerp Exhibition as it ought to be, Ch. Nolet, 78' Automatic Couplings, Earnest Collins, 52 Balancing Locomotives ? Master Mechanic, 267 Barring Engines. A Mechanical Engineer, 279 Belgian Roiled Joiuts, J. W. Pearse, 134 Blackpool Electric Tramway, The, A Borough Surveyor, 344

Blackpool Electric Tramway, The, M. Holroyd Smith,

395

Blackpool Electric Tramway, The. Surveyor, 362 Boiled Zinc Rods? Dauiells Cell, 87 Biiler Explosions, W. H. Booth, 511 Boiler Explosions, John Swift, 265 Boiler Flues, Hy. Harrison, 74 Breakage ot Pistons, M. R., 490 Brewei’s Cargo Gin ? I. W. H. and Co., 87 Bulkheads and Bulkhead Doors, L. Bill, 394 Bursting of a 43-ton Gun on Board H.M.S. “Collingwood,” Englishman, 374

Certificates lor Eaginemen, Michael Reynolds, 478 Close fenders, Ransome and Marsball, 253 Comparison of Locomotives, Automotors, and Tram-cars, worked by Stored-up Energy, A Keckeuzauu,

Competition in Shipbuilding, W. A. S B., 272 Compound Locomotives, Anti-Compound, 114, 265 Compound Locomotives, Bogie, 74 Compound Locomotives, F. C. Burgess, 91 Compound Locomotives. Practical, i90 Compressed Paper ? J. P., 151

Condensation of Steam in Cylinders, Maurice F_ FitzGerald, 279

Condenser Puzzle, A, Puzzled, 265

Congreaves Composite Steel, New British Iron Co.,

24

Constructing Stone or Concrete Piers or Breakwaters, W. Gallon, 174 Crimped Steel Rings ? Julius, 107 Cubic aud Heating Capacity of Siemens’ Regenerators ? W. 8., 303

Curtin’s Boilers, Edw. J Curtin, 252. 265 Curtin’s Boilers, Jas. Macdonald, 253 Cut tin’s Tubes, H. B. Bucklaud, 244 Deep Borings—Water Supply, J. Holmes Wood, 74 Degree in Engineering, a, a Student Institute, 433 Difficult Search, A, Nemo, 265 Dr. Lodge’s Mechanics, “ <|>. IT,” 29 Dr. Lodge’s Mechanics, Win. Donaldson, 53 Dr. Otto’s Claims and the Korting Gas Engine, Otto Lindemann, 278

Dr Otto’s Patents aud the Korting Gas Engine, F. W. Crossley, 265

Draughtsmen in London, W. II. R., 265

Dredger for Spain ? J. W-, iOf

Education of Engineers, A. 0., 326 Education of Engineers, U. H. A. S., 326 Education of Engiueers, Jas. Lyon M. A , 290 Education of Engineers, A Student of the Institution of Civil Eugineers, 326 Educational Parasitism, Seif-Help, 362 Effect of Frost on Roads, Road Trustee, 351 Electric Light in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, Messrs. 8. E. Norris and Co , 433 Electric Light Eugines, J. and H. Gwynne, 490 Electrical Problem, Student, 73 Electric Tramways, J. L. D., 29 Electrolysis, Alexander Walt, 28 Elementary Mechanics, W. A. S. B., 114 Enamelling Iron ? Enamel, 417 Engineering Cases in the Law Courts, M. Powis Bale, 51

Engineers Abroad, R. M., 49

Engineers in the Colonies, Warraponga, 464

Extracting Oil ? Enquirer, 69

Feed-water Heaters, John Kirkaldy, 510

Filter Presses for Wholesale Chemists? J. R. D., 229

Flow in Open Channels E. S. Bellasis, 126

Flow in Pipes, W. C. Unwin, 135

Flow of Water in Pipes, Edgar C. Thrupp, 104

Forced Combustion, James Howdeu, 74

Forced Draught, James Bowden, 54

Forty-Knot Ships, Robert G. Bleasby, 391, 433

Trial of Patent Cases, Wm. Spence, 2«, 114 Tunnelling Lines, Geo. P. Culverwell, 126 Turbines ? N. L., 87

Tome Premier. Hydraulique et Moteurs Hydrauliques, par M. Haton de la Goupilliere, 486

Differential and Integral Calculus, Professor A. G. Greenhill, 441

Electro-deposition: a Practical Treatise on the Electrolysis of Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel, and other Metals and Alloys; with Descriptions of Voltaic Batteries, Magnets, and Dynamo-electric Machines, and Materials and Processes used in every Department of the Art; and several Chapters on Electro-metallurgy, by Alexander Watt, 343

Electro-deposition : a Practical Treatise on the Electrolysis of Gold, Silver, Copper, &c., by Alexander Watt, 343

Elements de Statique Graphique Appliqude aux Constructions. First Part by H. Muller. Translation by T. Seyrig. Second Part by T. Seyrig, with an Atlas, containing Six Plates, 367

Guide pour l’Essai des Machines 5 Vapeur et la Production Economique de la Vap ;ur, par J. Buchetti,

356

116, 136, 158, 176, 328, 346, 364, 384,

Letters to the Editor (continued):

Forty-Knot Ships, Alexander Cleghorn, 478 Forty-Knot Ships, C. F. Hurst, 478 Forty-Knot Ships, John H. Macalpin, 478 Forty-Knot Ships, Robert Mansel, 433 Forty-Knot Ships, E. H. Parker, 510 Forty-Knot Speed Ships, Jas. C. Paulson, 351 Forty Knots an Hour, C. F. Hurst, 374, 422 Fair Trade and no Trade, M. H. R., 144 Fair Trade and no Trade, W. A. S. B., 145, 252 Free Trade and no Trade, Bolling and Lowe, 20S Free Trade and no Trade, C. D. Dub, 252 Free Trade and no Trade, Free Exchange, 341 Free Trade and no Trade, Hope, 104 Free Trade and no Trade, W. Maltby, 344 Free Trade and no Trade, Wm. Muir, 167, 226, 297, 344

Free Trade and no Trade, M. H. R , 104 Free Trade and no Trade, Mark H. Robinson, 208, 290 Free Trade and no Trade, Senex, 252 Free Trade and no Trade, Trader, 53, 74, 126, 167, 226, 297

Free Trade and no Trade, W. A. S. B., 252, 290, 344

Free Trade and no Trade, W. A. S. B., 208

Free Trade and no Trade. X., 252

Gas Engines, Jas. Atkinson, 278

Gas Engines, Robert Skene, 340

Gas Forge ? Micador, 341

German Opinion of Scotch Pig Iron, David Cowan, 433

Good and Bad Chains, J. Barnes, 234

Good and Bad Chains, Clyde, 234, 265

Good and Bad Chains, Fair Play, 265

Good and Bad Chains, N. Hingley and Sons, 135

Good and Bad Chains, K., 209

Good and Bad Chains, Henry F. Parkesand Co., 144,

196

Good and Bad Chains, W. Penman, 234, 265 Good and Bad Chains, S. A., 144 Good and Bad Chains, Valentine, 144 Good and Bad Chains, Joseph Wright and Co., 174, 252, 297

Good and Bad Work, Fair Play, 196 Good and Bad Work, Fuse, 198 Good and Bad Work, G. B., 197 Good and Bad Work, H., 174 Good and Bad Work, P. K., 325 Good and Bad Work, A Worker, 145 Good and Bad Work, A Workman, 174 Good and Bad Work, X., 197 Good and Bad Work, A Worker, 209 Gumming Paper? H. S., 505 Hawkesbury Bridge, The, Guinea Pig, 362 Heating Feed-water at Sea, John Kirkaldy, 374 Heating Feed-water at Sea, G. and J. Weir, 351 Heating Railway Carriages, Calor, 272 High-speed Engines at the Inventions Exhibition, Willans and Robinson, 29 Hoffman’s Steel Rail ? Nemo, 169 Huddersfield Station Roof, T. G. Gribble, 17 Hydraulic Presses and Hollow Steel Spindles, Nosille, 69

Inclined Shaft Rotary Engines, R., 75 Indicator Problem, Another, John Swift, 134 Injectors, Gresham and Craven, 279 Institution of Civil Engineers, Robt. H. Burnett, 297

Institution of Civil Engineers, Mem. Inst. C.E., 297

Law of Copyright, M. Powis Bale, 253 Lead Mills? Congou, 247

Lilleshall Co.’s Steel Works, The, W. Bullock, 148 Liquid Fuel, Percy Tarbutt, 114, 126 London Sewage, J. Bailey Denton, 144 London Sewage, Alfred S. Jones, 144, 351 Loss of the “ Oregon,” L. Hill, 241 Loss of the “ Oregon,” Nauticus, 241 Machine-cut Files, Dickson Bros, and Co., 174 Momentum and Inertia, “<f>. II.,” 73, 104 Momentum and Inertia, Wm. Donaldson, 91, 134 Moulder’s Blacking? Ironfounder, 191 Moulding and Stamping Soap Tablets ? J. G. and S., 229

New Patent Act, An Inventor of Limited Means, 290

New Patent Act, H. Moy Thomas, 290 Nitride of Zinc? Pyrites, 267

On the Application of Bidder’s “ Earthwork Tables ” for Heights other than Whole Feet, C. E. L., 395 Otto v. Steel, Air, 17 Output of Pig Iron, David Cowan, 511 Packing for Steam Joints? A. D., 107 Packing for Steam Joints? P. R. Y, 107 Passover Cake Machinery ? Easter, 439 Paxman’s Boiler Flue, Davey, Paxman, and Co., 51 Peculiarities of Steel, B., 16 Peculiarities of Steel, F. W. Dean, 167 Peculiarities of Steel, F. B Du Pie, 74 Peculiarities of Steel, George Fawcus, 16 Peculiarities of Steel, John Harrison, 28 Peculiarities of Steel, Iron, 16 Peculiarities of Steel, L., 53 Peculiarities of 3teel, W. W. Ree’s, 74 Petroleum Lamps, A Candlestick Msker, 144 Photographs of Machinery? A Young Engineer, 107 Physical Society, The, Wm. Donaldson, 114 Pile Driving, Wm. Donaldson, 167, 206, 252, 345, 395

Pile Driving, A. G. Groenhill, 296 Pile Driving, John T. Nicolson, 374 Pile Driving, Scrutator, 126, 209, 264, 351 Plant for Comb Manufactory? C. and L., 357 Problem of Flight, I. Lancaster, 362, 375 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, J. Batey, 73 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, Bt q 73 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, J. D., 29 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, J. W. S., 54 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, W. J. Last, 29 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, Wm. Lewis, 29 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, Mulciber, 28 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, Obscurity, 28 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, S. H. A., 28 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, V., 28 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, W. Walker, 29 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, W. F. G., 54 Problem in Indicator Diagrams, W. P., 28 Prof. Hughes’ Paper on Self-induction, A. S. Bolton,

197

Public Surveyors, A Disappointed Man, 422 Quinine Machinery ? Johns, 303 Railway Couplings, Clement E. Stretton, 75 Railway Signalling ? Signal, 229 Railways in Burmah, Siam, <fcc., Robt. Douglas, 55 Reaction Wheels, Wm. Donaldson, 134, 174 Reaction Wheels, Pynx Grypb, 54, 104, 145, 196 Reaction Wheels, J. W. Norman, 54 Reaction Wheels, W. H. T., 54, 104 Reaction Wheels, and Turbines, Wm. Donaldson, 73 Remelting Chilled Cast Iron ? G. F. H., 107 Residuum in Gas Engines, J. R, Woodhead, 326 River Steamers, J. M. Smales, 174 Rotary Engines, D. R Cameron, 52 Rotary Engines, H., 145, 297 Rotary Engines, Long Conneeting-rod, 53 Rotary Engines, Long Stroke, 104, 175, 340 Rotary Engines, Rotary, 226 River Lea, The, W. Scargill, 91 Royal Agricultural Society, Frank Garrett, 252 Royal Agricultural Society, Manufacturer, 252 Royal Agricultural Society, Progress, 29 Royal Agricultural Society, A Victim, 252 Sea Salt Crushing Machine ? J. R., 285 Sheet-brushing Machine? D. N., 485 Shipbuilding in the North, G. H. B., 167 Simple Formulae for Steam Engine Calculations, J. Forrest Brunton, 326

Simple Formulae for Steam Engines, Erg., 297 Simple Formulae for Steam Engine Calculations, M., 326

Snow-storm and the Vestries, W. Santo Crimp, 75 Soaring of Birds, I. Lancaster, 134 Stability of Ships under different Conditions of Loading, J. A., 148

Standard Diameters of Gas Screws, Gas Tap, 327

Letters to the Editor (continued)

Starch Miking and Rice Cleaning Machinery ? Starch, 485

Statics of Bridges? Mouse, 357 Steam Heating? T. H. G., 87 Steam Lifeboats, Ludwig Benjamin, 310 Steel Bars? Initial, 151 Steel Castings? Open Hearth, 417 Steel Rails for Italy, Hy. H. Spiller, 272, 345 Stepney Boiler Explosion, E. B. Barnard, 490 Strains in Cranes, W. B. Coventry, 326, 345 Strains in Cranes, Stork, 297 Stresses in Braced Girders, Puzzled, 362 Tall Chimney Construction? T. S., 11 Tallest Chimney in the World, R. M. Bancroft, 74 Tall Chimneys, X. Y. Z., 54 Tempering dies? Blacksmith, 397 Tempering 8teel Castings ? J. C , 169 Testing the Commercial Efficiency of Dynamo Machines, Andrew Jamieson, 209 Testing the Commercial Efficiency of Dynamo Machines, Gisbert Kapp, 253 Trade Depression and Foreign Competition, Pessimist, 73

Trades’ Unions and Piecework, Britisher, 29 Trades’ Unions and Trade, Amalnc, 91 Transmission of Large Powers by Friction Gearing at High and Low Velocities ? W. B., 485 Trapping Grease 1 Anti-Fat, 247 T riple Exansion Engines, M. Demoulin, 208 • Unapproved Arniourclftds, 175

Utilisation of Waste Gises, Andrew Howatson, 345 Ventilation of the Mersey Tunnel, Walker Brothers,

:'l

Vyrnwy Masonry Dam, The, G F. Doacon, 144 Wages, Geo. Heaton-Daglish, 208 Watch Trials at Kew, Progress, 74 Watt and the Joule Practical Electric Units, Desmond G. Fitz Gerald, 209

Who Invented the Ratchet Brace ? Enquirer, 197 Wind Pressure, J. G. Horner, 134 Wire Weaving Machinery ? G. P., 191 Workshop Drawings, A Draughtsman, 272 Workshop Drawings, An Ex-Pupil, 272 Workshop Drawings, N. Z., 272 Workshop Drawings, Peucilius, 272 Workshop Drawings, R. G. H, 234, 340 Workshop Drawings, Scale, 278 Worsted Yarn Machinery ? H. M. P. 8., 107 Zinc in Marine Boilers, David Phillips, 28, 134 Zinc in Marine Boilers, John A. Rowe, 54 Letts’ Diaries, 21

L'feboat for Lytham, Messrs. Forrest and Sons, 459 Light, Prof. Tyndall on Thos. Young and the Wave Theory of, 120

Lightfoot, Mr. T. B , Refrigerating and Ice making Machinery and Appliances, 394. 396, 428, 508, 509 Lighthouse Lantern, Sir J. Douglas, 296, 302 Lilleshall Company’s Steel Works, The, 148 Lime in the United States, Production of, 237 Liquefying Common Air, 80 Liquid Fuel, 31, 114, 122 Literature :

Almanach ffir die K.K. Marine, 1886, p. 249 Ancient Rome in 1885, by J. Henry Middleton, 131 Civil Engineers’ Pocket Book, The, by J. C. Trant-wine, 213

A Concise Dictionary of the English Language: Literary, Scientific, Etymological, and Pronuncial, by Charles Annandale, 358 Catechism of the Steam Engine in its Various Applications in the Arts ; to which is added a Chapter on Gas Engines, <fce., by John Bourne, 109 Combined Number and Weight Calculator, <&c., by W. Chadwick, 213

Constructive Geometry of Plane Curves, T. H. Eagle

Constructive Geometry of Plane Curves, T. H. Eagles, 419

Cost of Manufactures and the Administration of Workshops, Public and Private, by Captain H. Metcalfe, 304 Cours de Machine.

Harbours and Docks: their Physical Features, History, Construction, Equipment, and Maintenance, with Statistics as to their Commercial Development, by L. F. Vernon Harcourt, 71 Laxton’s Builders’ Price Book for 1886, 286 Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics, by Balfour Stewart and W. W. Haldane Gee, vol. i., p. 343 Malt and Malting: an Historical, Scientific, and Practical Treatise, &c., by H. Stopos, 171 Mineral Resources of the United States, Albert Williams, 418

Modern Armour, a Question for the Day, by Lieutenant W. H. Jacques, 248 Monografie Tecniche, G. B. Biadego, 153 Notes on the Chemistry of Iron, by Magnus Troilus,

Official Report on New Ordnance Material to United States War Department, by Captain Bixby, 71 Our Sea Coast Defence, by Lieutenant E. Griffin, 51 Principles of Economy in the Design of Metallic Bridges, by Cha3. B. Bender, 507 Reports of her Majesty’s Diplomatic and Consular Officers Abroad, Part iv., 1885. Report by her Majesty’s Charg6 d’Affaires at Dresden on the Effects of the German Customs Tariff Reform of 1879, and on the Revision of 1885, 322 Rudimentary Treatise on Coal and Coal Mining, w. W. Smith, 269

Select Metals in Chemical Analysis, W. Crookes, 286 Statics and Dynamics for Engineering Students, Professor J. P. Church, 400 Theory and Action of the Steam Engine, The, W. H. Northcott, 213

Vortrage fiber Brfickenbau, by Dr. E. Winkler.

Theorie der Brfickon. I., .367 Weekly Problem Papers, with Notes, by Rev. J. Milne, 507

Yacht Architecture, by Dixon Kemp, 399 Livk> pool International Exhibition, The, 343, 380, 453 to 460

Exhibition Building, 460 Expanding Mandril, Mr. Noble, 458 Express Bogie Engine, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Mr. Barton Wright (Supplement June \Uh, 1886), 463, 472 Ground Plan of, 380

Hydraulic Lubricator, Hydraulic Engineering Company, 457

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Bogie Carriage, 453, 454

T ifeboat for Lytham, Messrs. Forrest and Co., 459 Metre Gauge Engine, Messrs. Black, Hawthorn, and Co., 453

Model of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 457 Oval Cutting Machine, Mr. James Lyall, 458 Triple Expansion Engine, Mr. W. B. Thompson, 462 Liverpool, The Tramways of, 392, 402 Loading of Ships, 192

Lockwood’s Leather Scourer, 470 Locomotive Engine Boilers for Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway, 203

Locomotive Engines, New Design for, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 353

Locomotive, Express, Belgian State Railway, 132, 133 Locomotive, Express, Hungarian Railways, 343, 352,

Locomotive Inspection, 95

Locomotive, Outside Cylinder Compound, Mr. F. C. Burgess, 82

Locomotive, Pole Road, 214

Locomotive, Tank, for the Mersey Railway, 143, 150 Locomotives, Colliery Tank, Messrs. Joicey and Co., 45 Locomotives, Compound, 74, 91, 114, 153, 265, 290 Locomotives, Light Railway, at the Antwerp Trials, 325 Locomotives, Passenger and Express, Belgian State Railways, 161, 164

Locomotives, Relative Durability of English and American, 97

Lodge’s Mechanics, Dr., 29, 53 London Fires, 130 London Gas Supply, 485 London Sewage, 144, 351 London Sewage, Chemical Treatment of, 303 London Water Supply, 235 Low-water Valve and Alarm, Wilson’s, 381 Lowering Concrete under Water, Simple Process for,

Lubricator, Lauder’s, 207

Man v. Machine, 507 Manchester Ship Canal, The, 499 Mandril, Expanding, Mr. Noble, 458 Manganese in the United States, Production of, 39 Mann, Mr. F. W., High-pressure Cistern Valve, 125 Map of the World in which the Proportion of Areas is Preserved, 209

Mariner’s Compass, Sir William Thomson’s, 3, 4 Mason College, Birmingham.

Streets, Prof. R. H. Smilh on, 142 Mather-Thomson Bleaching Process, The, 224, 225 41 ensuring the Electrical Resistance of Liquids, Apparatus, for, 244

Mechanical Work in the Chemical Trade, 441

Mechlin, Locomotive and Carriage Shops at, 140

Mersey Railway, The, 343, 382

Mersey Railway, Tank Locomotives for, 143, 150

Mersey Tunnel, Opening of the, 61

Messer Roll Corrugator, The, 262

Metallic Permanent Way, 493

Metallic Sleepers, German Railways, 438, 441, 496, 498, 502, 504

Metallurgical Furnaces, Neutral Lining for, 403 Metals as Affected by Small Quantities of Impurity, Lectures on, at the Royal Institution, 47 Metals, Impurities in, 120, 162 Meteorites, Prof. Dewar on, 34, 42, 66, 80 Meteorites, Gases in, 42

Metropolitan Board, Annual Report of the, 417 Metropolitan Railway for Paris, 289 Metropolitan Sewage and the Thames, 34 Milan Cathedral Competition, 304 Mild Steel, 313

Millers’ Convention in Dublin, The, 400 Millers and Milling Engineers, Convention of, 153 Miners’ Industrial Exhibition, A, 466 Minimum rates of Freight, 322 Mining Explosions, Deaths from, 188 Miscellanea, 10, 25, 43, 67, 81, 105, 127, 149, 163, 185, 205, 227, 245, 261, 283, 301, 319, 337, 355, 375, 391, 411, 437, 461, 483, 503

Modern Machine Tools and Workshop Appliances for the Treatment of Heavy Forgings and Castings, 422 Momentum Diagrams of Steam Engines, 430, 431 Momentum and Inertia 73, 91, 104, 134 Moon, Temperature of the, 363 Mougin and Gruson Turrets at Bucharest, 183, 186

Natal Water Supply, The, 45 National Agriculture Hall, Kensington, 434 Naval Engineer Appointments, 17, 51, 71, 145,182, 204, 250, 282, 309, 32 i, 340, 352, 380, 409, 433, 475, 478 Navy, New Ranks in the, 296

New Companies, 19, 39, 57, 77, 95, 117, 137, 159, 177, 199, 219, 237, 255, 274, 293, 311, 329, 347 , 365, 385, 405, 425, 451, 475, 493, 513 New Cross Railway Accident, The, 359 Nile and Trafalgar Controversy, The, 505 Nolet, M. Charles, Condensing Engine (Supplement January 1st, 1886), 9 Nordenfeit's Submarine Boat, 130 North of England, 18, 38, 56, 76, 94,

198, 218, 236, 254, 274, 292, 3i0,

404, 423, 450, 474, 492, 512 North-Western Railway, Fatal Accident on the, 506 Northumberland Coal Trade, 231 Notes from Lancashire, 17, 37, 55, 75, 94, 115,1 36, 157,

175,    197, 217, 235, 253, 273, 291, 309, 327, 345, 364, 403, 423, 450, 473, 491, 511

Notes and Memoranda, 10, 25, 43, 67, 81, 105,127, 149, 163,185, 205, 227, 245, 261, 283, 301,319, 337, 355, 375, 391, 411, 437, 461, 483, 603

Notes from Scotland, 18, 33, 56, 76, 94, 116, 136, 158,

176,    198, 218, 236, 254, 274, 292, 310, 328, 346, 364, 384, 404, 424, 450, 474, 492, 512

Notices to Correspondents, 11, 31, 49, 69, 87, 107, 129, 151, 169, 191, 211, 229, 247, 267, 285, 303, 821, 341, 357, 379, 397, 417, 439, 465, 485, 505 Obituary :

Galland, M., 365 Jack, Mr. Alexander, 237 Ransome, Mr. Robt. Charles, 213 Templeton, Mr., 214 Waldegg, Heusinger von, 126 Oil, Analysing, 11 Oil, Extracting, 69

Oil Tester, Prof. Thurston’s Patent, 435 Oils, Analysing, 74 “Oregon,” Loss of the, 229, 241, 341 Ormiston, Mr. Thomas, Marble Statue of, 1S2 Osney Bridge, Oxford, 51 Otto v. Steel, 6, 17, 35, 47, 62, 91 Otto’s Patent, Dr., and the Korting Gas Engine, 265, 278

Our Competitors in Iron Shipbuilding, 239, 257 Output of Pig Iron, 511 Overhead Wires, Danger of, 50 Overrunning a Platform at Kingswear, 170

Packages Lost in Post, 502 Palmer’s Frame Pulley, 155 Panama Canal, The, 403, 415, 482 Panama and Suez Canals, The, 51, 90 Panhellenic Steam Navigation, 201 Paris, Metropolitan Railway for, 289 Patent Act, New, 290 Patent Cases, Trial of, 28,114 Patent Law Amendment, 441 Patent Laws, 143 Patent-office, 193 Patent-offioe Administration, 33 Paul’s Yacht Engine, 487, 488, 489 Paxman Boiler, The, 500 Paxman’s Boiler Flue, 54 Permanent Way, Metallic, 498

Permanent Way, Metallic Sleepers, German Railways, 438, 441, 496, 498, 502, 504 Permanent Way, Vogdt’s Metallic, 338 Petersfield Waterworks, The Well of the, 475 Petroleum Lamps, 120, 144

Photography as an Aid to Astronomy, Mr. A. A. Common, 240

Photography, Sub-aqueous, 114 Physical Society, The, 104 Piece-work in the Railroad Paint Shop, 113 Pile Driver, Steam, Messrs. Figee Bros., 288 Pile Driving, 126, 167, 208, 209, 252, 264, 267, 296, 345, 351, 374, 395

i Piston Ring, Messrs. J. Watts and Co., 471, 472 Plate Edge Planing Machine, 288

Pneumatic Dynamite Gun, The, 64, 65 Points and Signals, Interlocking, Dutch Railway Company, 140, 141 Pole Road Locomotive, 214

Portsmouth Dockyard, Large Brake Lathe for, 232 Private Bill Legislation, 88, 166, 215, 269, 287, 323, 336, 354, 419, 481

Private Bills in Parliament, 133, 153

Private BiUs for Next Session, 35, 109, 195

Pregardien’s Boiler, 207

Preservation of Timber, 362

Prevention of Boiler Explosions, 247

Price of Labour and Work in Austria, 201

Problem of Flight, The, 362,374

Problem in Indicator Diagrams, 28, 29, 54, 73, 134

Professor in the Machine Shop, The, 402

Propulsion with Three Screws, Experience in, 334

Protection of Wooden Piers from Fire, 236

Public Surveyors, 422

Pulley Covering, Mr. W. W. Wilkinson, 182 Pulleys, Interchangeable, Messrs. Smith and Grace,

Pump, Hett’s 9in. Centrifugal Circulating, 481 Pumping Engine, Marine, Mr. A. G. Mutnford, 182 Pumping Engine, The Worthington, 232 Pumping Engines for Buenos Ayres Sewage Works, 281, 282, 284

Pumping Engines, Centrifugal, 339

Pumps for Sewage and Sludge, Walthamstow, 480, 481

Purification of Water by Means of Iron, 32

Putney Bridge, The New, 415

Pyrites in the U.S., Production of, 84

Radial Arm Drilling Machine, Mr. G. F. Smith, 501 Rail Trade Association, 192 Railway Accident, The New Cross, 359 Railway Accident on the London and North-Western, 859

Railway Accident in South Australia, 358 Railway Carriage Seat Springs, 288 Railway Collision at Sutton Coldfield, 472 Railway Congress at Brussels International, 140, 161

Arsenal, Paper on, by M. Teugelo and M. Roussel, 140

Great Western Coupling Hook, 140 Great Western Railway Platform, 140 Interlocking Points and Signals, adopted by the Dutch Railway Company, 140, 141 Locomotive and Carriage Shops at Mechlin, 140 Passenger and Express Locomotives, on Belgian State Railways, 161, 164 Permanent Way, 161 Traction and Rolling Stock, 161 Railway Couplings, 75 Railway Couplings, Trials of Improved, 214 Railway Half-year, The, 486 Railway Locomotives at the Antwerp Trials, 325 Railway Matters, 10, 25, 43, 67, 81, 105, 127, 149, 163, 185, 205, 227, 245, 261, 283, 301, 319, 337, 355, 375, 391, 411, 437, 461, 483, 503.

Railway Platform, Great Western, 140 Railway Regulations in Germany, 286 Railway Rates Bill, 285 Railway Rates Controversy, The, 165 Railway Traders and Mr. Mundella’s Bill, 231 Railways in Burmah, Siam, <fcc., 55 Railways in China, Development of, 49 Railways, The Control of, 212 Railways, Proposed, in Burmah and Siam, 23 Railways in Brazil, 317

Railways in Burmah and Siam, Proposed, 399 Rangoon, Rice Mill at, 263 Ransome, Mr. Robert Charles, 213 Ratchet Brace ? Who Invented the, 197 RatiDg of Machinery and the Proposed Amendment to the Employers’ Liability Act, 267 Rays of Solar from those of Terrestrial Origin, On a Method of Distinguishing, 513 Reaction Wheels, 54, 104, 134, 145, 174, 196 Reaction Wheels and Turbines, 21, 73 Reaction Wheels and Turbines, Wm. Donaldson, 21 Reciprocation in High-speed Engines, Obscure Influences of, Mr. A. Rigg, 430 Reduction Rolls for Hard Substances, Gradual, 215 Reduction of Wages in the Engineering and Iron Trades, 33

Refrigerating and Ice-making Machinery Appliances, Mr. T. B. Lightfoot, 394, 396, 428, 508, 509 Regulation of Railways Act, 390 Relations of Pressure, Temperature, and Volume in Saturated Vapours, 209

Reservoir, A Large, for Yorke’s Peninsula, 507 Reservoirs above Ground, 71 Residuum in Gas Engines, 326

Reverberatory Furnace Heated with Gaseous Fuel, 122

Rhymney Railway, The, 153

Ribble Navigation, 39

Rice Mill at Rangoon, 263

Richmond Sewerage, The, 109

River Steamers, 174

Road Repairs, 50

Roller Flour Mill, Bombay Flour Mill Company, Mr.

H. Simon, 479, 482, 484, 497, 498 Rosario Waterworks, Engines and Pumps, 376, 379 Rotary Engines, 52, 53, 75, 97, 104, 145, 175, 226, 297 Rotary Engines, Inclined Shaft, 75 Rotterdam, Construction of Quay Walls at, 395 Rowan’s Steam Carriage at the Antwerp Trials, 242, 243

Royal Albert Docks Extension, 143, 146, 147 Royal Albert Dock Extensions, Plan and Sections of Entrance Lock, 102, 103, 109 Royal Agricultural Society, 29

“ Royal Arsenal ” at Woolwich, The, and the American Idea for Romoving Buildings, 52 Royal Dockyards, Management of the, 221 Royal Institution, 189, 226, 288, 475 Ancient Geography of Britain, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, 240

Capillary Attraction, Professor Sir W. Thomson, 161 Flectro-chemistry, Professor Dewar, 277 Great Ice Age, On the, Professor R. 8. Ball, 119 Impurities in Metals, Mr. W. Chandler-Austen, 120, 162, 239

Liquefying Common Air, Professor Dewar on, 80 List of Lectures, 148

Metals as Affected by Small Quantities of Impurity, Course of Lectures on, by W. C. Roberts-Austen, 47

Meteorites, Professor Dewar on, 34, 42, 66, 80 Photography as an Aid to Astronomy, Mr. A. A. Common, 240

Properties of Fluids and Solid Metals, Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, 278

Universal Time, Professor W. II. M. Christie, 277 Volcanic Action in Britain, Mr. Archibald Geikie, 162

Wave Theory of Light, Thomas Young and the, Professor Tyndall, 120 Royal Meteorological Society, 125 Rolled Joists of Steel and Iron, 473 Roofs and the Snow, Our, 51 Roots’ Blowers, Machinery for Making, 324 Roots’ Improvements in Blowers and Pumps, 121, 173 Royal Agricultural Society, 230, 252, 363, 418, 465 Royal Albert Dock, 336

Royal Albert Dock Extension, Details of Timber Work, 129

Running down of Batteries, On the, as Influenced by their Performance of Mechanical Work, Dr. O. Lodge, 97

Russia, Reclamation of Land in, 365 Russian Ironclads, 490

Safety Lamp, A New, Exhibited by M. Mercier, 436 Safety of Well-decked Steamers, The, 358 St. Lawrence Shipping Interest, The, 109 Silt, Production of, in the United States, 137 Sanitary Condition of the Houses of Parliament, 466 Sanitary Houses, Mr. A. Collins on, 275 Sanitation in London Suburbs, 193

Society, The Physical (continued): —

Expansion of Mercury between 0 deg. and 39 deg. C., by Professors W. E. Ayrton and John Perry, 309 Experimental Error on Calorimetrical Work and on Delicate Calorimetrical Thermometers, Professor U. S. Pickering, 143

Growth of Filiform Silver, On the, Dr. J. H Gladstone, 244

Hyperbolagraph, On a, Mr. H. H. Cunnynghame, 513

Modified, Maxwell’s Galvanometer, Professor S. P. Thompson, 308

Method of Distinguishing Rays of Solar fron those of Terrestrial Origin, Professor Cornu, 513 Map of the World in which the Proportion of Areas is Preserved, Mr. W. Baily, 209 Note on Some Organic Substances of High Refractive Power, by Mr. F. G. Madan, 89 Note on the Paper by Professor W. Ramsay and Dr. S. Young on Some Thermo-dynamical Relations, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Professor John Perry, 89

On a Modified Form of Wheatstone’s Rheostat, Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 385

On a Theorem Relating to Curved Diffraction Gratings, Mr. Walter Baily, 385 On Some Thermo-dynamical Relations. Professor W.

Ramsay and Dr. Sydney Young, 385 Relation between the Critical Temperatures of Bodies and their Thetm il Expulsions as Liquids. Professor A. W. Rileker and Professor T. E. Thorpe, 318

Relations of Pressure, Temperature, and Volume in Saturated Vapours, Professor W. C. Unwin, 209 Society, Steam Engine Makers’, 184 Society, University College Engineering, 148 Soaring of Birds, 134

Solar-diurnal Variations of Terrestrial Magnetism, On the Cause of the, 318 S >uth African Expedition, 288 South Durham Salt Borings, 399 South Staffordshire Mill and Forge Wages Board, 153 South Kensington Museum, 17. 29, 133, 273, 404, 475 Speed Trials of Recent War Ships, On the, Mr. W. H. White, 305

Springs, Railway Carriage Seat. 288 Stability of Ships under Different Conditions of Loading, 14S Steam on Canals, 63 Steam Carriage, Rowan’s, 242, 243 Steam Engine Calculations, Simple Formulae for, 326 Steam Engine, Future of the, 211 Steam Engine Makers’ Society, The, 181 Steam Fire Engine, Joy Mill, Failsworth, Mr. J. Wolstenholme, 90

Steam Fire Float for the Egyptian Government, 316 Steam Lifeboat, Proposed, with Special Reference to its Stability, 334 Steam Lifeboits, 321, 340

Steam Power for Electric Lighting at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 207

Steam Pump for High pressure Hydraulic Machinery, Messrs. F. Pearn and Co., 154 Society of Engineers, 112, 513    Steam Separator, Boys and Cunynghame’s, 173

Induced v. Forced Draught in Marine Boilers, Mr. Steamers, New, for the Anglo-Belgian Mail Services, W. A. Martin, 352    492

Obscure Influences of Reciprocation in High-speed S.S. “ Algoma,’’ Anchor Gear of, 143 Engines, Mr. Arthur Rigg, 430    S.S. “ Prometheus,” Compound Engine of the, 187,

Some Modern Improvements in the Manufacture of 190, 194 Coal Gas, Mr. R. P. Spice, 475    S.S. “ Coot,” Built up Crank-shaft, 293

Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated, 373    S.S. “ Coot,” Detail of Valve Gear, 300

Society, King’s College Engineering, 137    S.S. “Coot,” Details of the Cylinders of, 298

Curves, Mr. W H. Collis, 4"5    S S. “ Coot,” Triple Expansion Engines of (Supple-

Electric Railways, Mr. W. P. Adams on, 513    meat, April \6th, 1886)

Gas Engines, Mr. Brydges, 237    Steamship Insurance, Cost of, 33

Hydraulics, Mr. C. W. Atkinson, 137    Steamships’ Earnings and Expenses, 212

Sanitary Houses, Mr. A. Collins, 275    Steel, The Behaviour of, 169

Small Arms, Mr. A. K. Peaty, 435    Steel Castings, Use of, in lieu of Iron Forgings and

Steam Boilers, Mr. V. J Boutar, 421    Brass Castings, 313

Water Motors, Mr. Heathcote, 176    Steel, Congreaves’ Composite, 28

Well of the Petersfield Waterworks, The, Mr. Steel, Making Ladles, 64, 72 Haskett-Smith, 475    Steel, Mild, Review of the Progress of, 313

Society, Liverpool Engineering, 335    Steel, Peculiarities of, 16, 28, 53, 74, 167

Tidal Works on the Seine and on other Rivers, Mr. Steel Production at Jarrow, 33 J. N. Shoolbred, 868    Steel Rails, Endurance of. 408

Wasting in Marine Boilers, Mr. E. G. Ferber, 335 Steel R ills for Italy, 273, 345 Society, The Manchester Geological    Steel Ships, 377

Society, The Physical:—    Steel, Microscopical Structure of, 407

Apparatus for Measuring the Electrical Resistance Steel Weapons, Tests for, 88 of Liquids, Professor Reinold, 244    Steel Wire of High Tenacity, 389

Arc Lamp, Convenient, for Use with the Duboscq Stepney Boiler Explosion, Tne 477, 490 Lantern, Professor 8. P. Thompson, 303    Stern-wheel Steamer for the Nile Exp jd.tion, 101, 106

Cause of the Solar Diurnal Variations of Terrestrial Sterne's Twist Drill Grinding Attachment, 489 Magnetism, Professor Balfour Stewart on the, 318 Stevenson and Co., Messrs., L idles for Carrying Chromatic Photometry, On, Captain Abuey and Molten Iron, 64

Lieutenant-Colonel R. Festing, 244    Stockholm, Tunnel for Foot Passengers, 230, 282

Delicate Calorimetric Thermometer, Professor S. U. Stokeholes, Closed, 313 Pickering, 209    Stone-breaker, Messrs. W. H. B ixter and Co., 26

Electric Light Fire Damp Indicator, On an, Messrs. Stone or Concrete Piers or Breakwaters, Constructing, Walter Emmott and Wm. Ackroyd, 513

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INDEX.

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Sargeant’s Reversible Steel Coulter, 343 Scaffold Clamp, Steel, 316

Schonheyder and Maginnis, Improved Drawing Paper Clips, 352

Scotch Pig IroD, German Opinion of, 433 Screw Forging Machine, Fairbairn and Wells’, 233 Screw Jacks for Thrashing Machines, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttle worth, 471 Screw Propeller Efficiency, 327 Screw Propeller Efficiency, Mr. A. G. Greenhill, 427, 495

Selected American Patents, 20, 40. 58, 78, 93, 118,138, 160, 178, 200, 220, 238, 256, 276, 294, 312, 330, 343, 366, 386, 405, 426, 452, 476, 491, 514 Self-induction, Professor Hughes’ Paper on, 197 Severn Tunnel, The, 47, 403 Severn Tunnel, Photographs of the, 461 Sewage Pollution, 189

Sewer Gas, Messrs. Eachus and Maignen’s System of Treating, 52

Sewer Ventilation, Messrs. Eachus’, 52 Sewerage, Stratford-on-Avon, 8, 9, 41. 46, 48 Sewers in Clapbam. Battersea, Wandsworth, and Putney, Sir J. W. Bazalgette, 210, 213, 228, 23i, 266, 270, 271

Sharpe’s Dotting Pen, 381

Sheffield District, 38, 55, 76, 94. 116, 135, 176, 198, 218, 236, 254, 274, 292, 310, 328, 346, 364, 381, 404, 424, 450, 474, 492, 512

“ Sheffield ” and Sheffield Trade Marks, 213 Shipbuilding in 1885, 243 Shipbuilding in 1885, British. 155 Shipbuilding in the North, 167 Shipping Trades, The, 77 Ships Sold and Bought by Foreigners, 88 Shirlaw and Co., Messrs., I wist Drill Grinder, 372 Signal Wire Compensator, Mr. Clarke, 317 Simon, Mr. H., Flour Mills for Bombay Flour Mill Company, 479, 482, 484, 497, 498 Simple Formula; for Steam Engine Calculations, Prof. W. C. Unwin, 277

Slide Valves, Modem Practice in, Mr. T. Westgarth on, 112

Slotting Machine, Heavy Vertical, Messrs. Geo.

Booth and Co., 65 Sludge, 170

Slurry Pump, Diagram from a, 352

Smith and Grace, Messrs., Interchangeable Pulleys,

Smith, Prof. R. H., Kinematic Diagrams, 257

Smith, Prof. R H., on Streets, 142

Snow in Cities, 80

Snow, How to Deal with the, 41

Snow Storm and the Vestries, The, 75

Soap, The Manufacture of, 420, 421

Society of Arts, Conversazione, The, 421

Society, The Chemical, 458

Society of Civil Engineers, The American: —

On the Work Done for the Preservation of the Dam at Holyoke, Mass., in 1885, Mr. Clemens Herschel, 383

Society, The Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 403,

415

Strain Indicator for Use at Sea, 306 Strains in Cranes, 297, 315 Stratford-on-Avon Sewerage, 8, 9, 44, 46, 48 Street Cleaning in Vienna, 173 Streets, Professor R. H. Smith on, 142 Stresses in Braced Girders, 362 Sab-aqueous Photography, 114 Suez and Panama Canals, Tne, 51, 90 Supplements Conversion Tables for French and E \glish M easures, No. 1, length, metres, and feet, centimetres, and inches, kilometres, and miles, February 5th, 1886 Condensing Engine, 120-EL.P., Antwerp Exhibition, M. C. Nolen, January 1st, 1886 Conversion Tables for French and English Measuies. No. II. Area Square Metres and Square Feet; Square Centimetres and Square Inches, Hectares and Acres, March 19th, 188 >. Express Passenger Engine, Hungarian State Railway, April 30tb, 1886

Express Bogie Engine, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Vulcan Foundry Company, Mr. Barton Wright, June llth, 1886

Four Coupled Passenger Engine, Belgian State Railways, February 5th, 1836 Triple Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Coot,” April 16th, 1886

Swivel Tool Holder, Meisrs. Hulse and Co., 45

Tees Conservancy Commissioners, Revenue of, 317 Telephones and the Snowstorm, 31 Temperature of Air at High Altitudes, Professor Dewar on, 42

Temperature of the Moon, 363 Templeton, Mrs., 214 Tenders:

Arnold Local Board of Health, Mr. Fred. Jackson,

323

Belper Rural Sanitary Authoritv, 148 Barmouth, 81ipway at Lifeboat Station, Mr. Tlios.

Roberts, 214 Bexhill on-Sei, 148

Hurdle Fencing in Lancaster-street and Regent-street, 60

Ironfoundry for Messrs. W. N. Allen and Co., 173 Iron Gates, Wrought, Borough Lunatic A-tylum, Humberston, 193

Mitcham, Surrey, Gasworks at, H. Saxon Snell and Son, 390

Oxford, Iron Gothic Roof, <fcc , Anthropological Museum, Garduer, Anderson, ani Clarke, 231 Purifiers and Tanks for the Borough Gasworks, Devizes, 135

Sewer from Lordship lane to Wood Green, 42 Silloth, Grain Warehouse, North British Riilway Company, Gardner, Auderson, and Clarke, 2il Steel Boilers, Bedford Brewing and Malting Company, 193

Toxteth Park, Mr. John Price, 380, 464 Toxteth Park, Sewers, Mr. John Price, 29 > Waterworks, Southampton, Mr. Wm. Matthews,

Tenders, Close, 253

Testing Commercial Efficiency of Dynamo Machines,

Testing Machine, Denison’s, 214 Theatrical Mechanism at the Lyceum Theatre, 260 Thermo-dynamical Relations, On Some, 385 Thirlmere Waterworks, 336 Thomson, Sir Wm., Mariner’s Compass, 3 Thrashing Machine at tbe Budapest Exhibition, 111 Tnurston’s Patent Oil Tester, 435 Thwaites’ Blowers, Messrs., 324

Tidal Works on the Seine and on other Rivers, Mr. J.

N. Shoolbred on, 368 Tilbury Docks, The, 322 Tilbury Docks Arbitration, 473 Timber, Preservation of, 362

Tin Plates, Origin and Progress of the Manufacture of, Mr. P. W. Flowers, 371 Tool Grinder, Sterne's, 489

Tool Holder, New Swivel, Messrs. Hulse and Co., 45 Tools for the Colonies, 193 Tornadoes, 397

Torpedo Boat Experiment, French, 213

Torpedo Boats, 69

Torpedo Boats, Accident to, 192

Torpedo Boats, Fast, 248

Tower Bridge, The, 204, 209, 507

Tower Bridge—British or Foreign Iron, 209

Trade Citalogues, A Batch of, 72

Trade Depression and Foreign Competition, 73

Trade with Rio de Janeiro, 167

Trades’ Unions a id Piecework, 29

Trades’ Unions and Trade, 91

Train Thrown over a Sea Wall into the Sea, 70

Tramways, The G owth of. 24

Tramways of Liverpool, The, 392, 402

Tient Gas Engine, The, 401

Trucks, Iron Timber, 264

Tunnel for Foot Passengers, Stockholm 280 28 >

Tunnel, Proposed, Across the Northumberland Straits,

Tunnelling Lines, 126

Turbine, S df-governing, Messrs. A. and II. Williams and Co., 472

Turret Trials, Competitive, at Bucharest 183 18 i Twist Drill Grinder, Messrs. Shirlaw and’Co ’ 37' Twist Drill Grinding Attachment, Sterne's 489 Twist Drill, Rimer and Cutter Making Machines 331

United States, Automatic Brakes in the, 249 United States, Building Stone in the, 159 Unite! States, Canal Projects in, 137’

United States, Cobalt in the, 95 United States, Copper in the, 275 United States Cruiser, “ Chicago,” 79, 83, 81 S7 United States Navy, The, 31

United States Navy, Report of the Secretary of the,

United States, Production of Lime in the, 237 United States, Production of Salt in the, 137 United State •», Pyrites in the, 84 United States, Twin Cruiser, “Chicago,” Tne, 79, S3,

Uuiversal Time, Professor W. H. M. Christie, 277 Unwin, Professor W. C., Simple Formula; for Steam Engine Calculations, 277 Utilisation of Waste Gases, 345

Valve, High-pressure Cistern, 125

Ventilation of the Mersey Tunnel, 91

Ventilation of Rooms, Mr. T. Fletcher and Mr. W.

Wilkinson on, 39 Vienna City Railway, Tbe, 272 Visco-iity of Air, The Coefficient of, 287 Vogdt’s Metallic Permanent Way, 338 Volcanic Action in Britain, Professor A. Gaikie oa, 162

Vyrnwy Dam, The, 99, 144, 439

Wages, 208, 267

Wa'es Reductions, 803, 304

Waldegg, Heusinger von, 136

Wales and Adjoining Counties, 18, 38, 56, 76, 94, 116, 136, 158, 176, 193, 218,254, 236, 274, 292, 310, 328, 3)6, 861, 384, 404, 424, 450, 474, 492, 512 Wallingford, Water Supply of, 120, 121 Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, 52 Wasting in Marine Boilers, 335 Watch Trials at Kew, 74

Watch Trials at Kew Observatory, D. Glasgow, jun., 1 Water Analyses, Meth >d of Stating Results of, 403 Water Gases, Utilisation of, 345 Water Purification ; its Biological and Chemical Basis.

Water Softener and Purifier, Howatson’s, 400 Water Supply of Amsterdam, 491 Water Supply, Facts and Science of, 342 Water Supply of Small Towns, 52 Water Supply of Small Towns, Wallingford, 120, 121 Watt, James, Third Jubilee Anniversary of, 88 Watt and the Joule Practical Electric Units, The, Wave Theory of Light, Thos. Young and the, 120 Well Finding, 3 Westinghouse Brake, The, 389 Westinghouse Engine and Gulcher Dynamo, 470 Wet Sand for Casting, 473 Wheatstone’s Rheostat, On a Modified Form of, 355 Wheels, Reaction, 196

Wilkinson and Lister, Messrs., Dynamo Winding Machines, 2b3

Wilkinson and Lister’s Twist Drill Machine, 339 Wilson’s Low-wat ;r Valve and Alarm, 331 Wind Pressure, 134

Winding Engines f >r Australia. 410, 416, 435 Witham New Sea Channel, The, 378 .

Wood-block Flooiiug, 240

Wood Trade, Messrs. Fox, Morgan, and Co. on the, 45 Work, Good and B id, 196, 325 Work and Wages, 191, 377 Workshop Drawing-i, 231, 272, 278,340 Worth, Mickenzie and Co., Vertical, Tandem, Compound, Surface Condensing Engine, 27, 30, 34 Worthington Pumpiug Engine, Tne, 232 Wright’s Gas Euaiue, 6 Wrought Iron Conduit Pipes, 407

Yacht “ Atlantic," The New Racing Sloop, 491 1actit Engines, Compound, Messis. Hawthorns and Co., 438

Zinc in Marine Boilers, 54, 134 Zupissa Cement, 101

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