INDEX 1868 TO VOL. XX. A. ABBEY MILLS pumping station, 109, 131; and machinery, Abyssinian tube well, 344 Abergele catastrophe, 161 Accidents in ironstone mines, 352 Addis' iron permanent way, 389 Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 3, 33; exhibition, 282 Behrens' rotary engine, 291 Bellhouse's safety cage, 13 Bertram's petroleum oil store, 266 Blast furnaces, improved tuyere, 31 Boilers, cast steel and wrought-iron, 25 Boiler explosions, 191, 309 Bottled sunshine, 321 Bourbon's flexible tube machine, 148 BOOKS, NOTICES OF, Atchley's civil engineers and contractors' price book, Bauerman's, H., treatise on the metallurgy of iron, 83 Bourne's examples of modern steam, air, and gas Box's practical treatise on heat, as applied to the useful Burgh, N. P., on modern screw propulsion, 45, 303; on Dobson on the manufacture of bricks and tiles, 304 Hall's treatise on the mechanical means by which vessels Hoare's slide rule, and how to to use it, 44 Hughes' principles and practice of photography, 84 Humber's record of the progress of modern engineering, Iron shipbuilding, with illustrations, by J. Grentham, 44 Lyell's principles of geology, 83 Northcott on lathes and turning, 123 Natural philosophy, the phenomena of, 4 Plummer's story of a blind inventor, Dr. Gale, 83 Reed, E. J., on shipbuilding in iron and steel, 403, 423 Report on the munitions of war at the Paris exhibition to the United States Government, 84 Royal Agricultural Society's journal, 103 Sandrin's, C., treatise on steel, 424 Timbs' notable things of our own time, 103 Urbin's practical guide for puddling iron and steel, 83 Wright's, R. P., elements of plane geometry, 424 Brick-making machinery, by C. H. Murray, 108; new Bridge centreing, 251, 269; Franz Joseph, opening of, at British Archeological Association, 106; army, statistics Colonial bridge, 269 Combustion under pressure, by Professor Frankland, 227 Communication between England and France, 442; be- Concrete mixer, 371; Tall's apparatus for building in, 49 Controlling the draught of water from constant supply Copper, electro-deposited, molecular condition of, 1; refin- CORRESPONDENCE:- Abergele accident, J. Walker, 234 313 Boxer cartridge, H. W. Reveley, 294 Brook bracket and insulator, Mathew Gray, 313 Comparative trials of steam fire engines at Newcastle- English and German societies of engineers, 153 Flying by steam power, James Parker, 354 Hydraulics, H. H., 472 Hydraulic buffers, John Hanson, 415 Ignition of mines, torpedoes, &c., A. de B., 375, 393 Joynson's mechanic's and student's guide in the FARADAY'S Royal Institution apparatus, 174 Fire engine, new, trial of, 470; steam, for Singapore, 13 Fletcher, James, jun., on Shaw and Justice's dead-stroke Frankland, Professor, on combustion under pressure, 227 Geological applications of photography, 202 Girders, effects of loads on, 323, 343, 402, 463 Glass works of Venice and Murano, 132, 174 design-Goods engine for the Great Northern Railway, 190; ing and construction of general machine gearing, 496 Laws of telegraphy, R. S. W., 473 Manufactory of watch glasses, H. W. Reveley, 455 Major Anson's committee, and the gun factory, H. W. Murray's treatise on marine engines, Robert Murray, Ocean telegraphy, Willoughby Smith, 73, 334; W. Paris excursion committee, J. T. Dexter, 134 Puckett on sciography, 496 Purification of the Clyde, John G. Winton, 334 Railway collisions, C. M. Kernot, 274 Relief of London street traffic, J. Dyer, 394 Report of the American commissioner of patents, 495 Safety lock sash fastener, J. Lloyd, 113 Safety of our collieries, H. W. Reveley, 472 Sewage chemically treated, J. G. Winton, 73 Solar heat, H. Saloway, 472 Street tramways, H. Bright, 234 Suggestions on the defence of fortresses, G.J. Gunther, 273, 333, 472 Town refuse, J. G. Winton, 84, 113 Tidal flushing, J. G. Winton, 13 Working guns, J; Walker, 472 Cotton fibre, constituents of, by Dr. E. Schunck, 209 Crossley's self-registering electrical anemometer, 282 DANGEROUS shoal, 452 D. Darling's, W. H., researches on di-methyl, 6 Dorsett's petroleum furnace, 69, 301, 369 Doty's lighthouse lamp, 352 Double-action pump, 370 Dunn's stationary fire protector, 373 Drilling machine at the Hoosac tunnel, 112 Dunwich and Zandvoort cable, 181 Dutch monitor, the, "De Stier," 229 Dyer, J. C., notes on the laws of physical forɔe, 126 E. EARTHQUAKE in England, 361 Eclipse, the great preparations for photographing, 123; stations, 203 Government Telegraph Bill, 43; tests for boiler plates, 121 Grantham, R. B., on the broads of East Norfolk, 207 "Great Eastern," another, 452 i Green's patent steam boiler, 344 Guns, gunnery, and the gun factory, 87 Gunpowder plot, 266; preparation of, with picrate of Naval, military and gunnery items, 14, 33, 55, 73, 95, 114, OCEAN telegraphy, 27 Official weather wisdom, 443 0. Ornamentation of iron castings by brassing, coppering, Silliman, B., on the mastodon in California, 72 and bronzing, 234 Oscillating or variable eccentric motion, 51 Optics, 495 OBITUARY. Barton, W. Henry, 206, 174 Robertson, John, 488 P. PADDLE engines of the "Berbice," 311 Paris, improvements in, 183 Parkhead forge, 54 Parr and Strong's patent building tubes, 285 Piggott v. the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 212 Parsons' gun, 222, 243, 367 M. MACHINERY for manufacturing nails and spikes, 452; 213; iron castings, 352; soda and potassa, 125; strip iron for boiler tubes, 71 Manufactory of watch glasses, a, 434 Man engines, Devon Gt. Consols Mine, 211 Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 384 Melbourne, the birthday of, 373 Messant's concrete mixer, 371 Meteorological office, 242 Silver coinage of Great Britain, 1 Small-arm cartridge competition, 141 Smithfield Club Show, 479, 461 Soane river, inundation of the, 9 Social Science Association, 89, 291 Society of Engineers, 22, 142, 366, 391, 465, 497 Standards commission, report of, 204 Steam fire engine for Buenos Ayres, 229; fire engines for Patent friction clutch, 412; laws, the, 192; monopoly, by Storms, the late, 387 H. Dircks, 205; office, library, and museum, 21, 89 Pennsylvania steel works, 353 Permanent way of different countries, 127 Strap or band fastener, 333 Street railways, 454; tramways, 102; signals, Bridge-street Suez canal, 487 Petroleum furnace, Dorsett's, 69, 301 344; oil store, Ber- Sulphur, production of, in Italy, 253 tram's, 266 Phosphorescence of bodies, 43 Physical force, notes on the laws of, J. C. Dyer, 126 Physique, Les Phenomenes de la, 4 Ploughing and traction engine, 431 Polytechnic Institution, 332, 497; prizes, 409 Portland cement, 464 Portsmouth fortifications, 32 Printing in France, 333 Prizes at the Leicester show, 109; for improved meat and Military arm of the future, 342; and colonial cart, 472; Puddling iron, on, by C. W. Siemens, 206 monument at Quincy, 67 Minerals and metals, 427 Millwall shield, 62, 242 Pulley for ships' blocks, 233 Q. QUEEN'S prize, the, 89 R. RAILWAY disasters from petroleum, 286 Railway events of next week, 244; movement in America, Mutations of imponderable elements, notes on, by J. C. Rainfall in the British Isles, 182 Syphons, sinking, in the river Seine, 222 Thames embankment, 90 Thirion's double-action pump, 370 Ticket-cutting machine, 102 Tidal waves at the antipodes, 470 Tin, reducing, for coating metals, 94 Torbay iron oxide paint, 267 Tooth's system of boiling sugar, 337 Tramways in Holland, 252; metropolitan, 470 Trial of a steam pinnace, 245 Trinidad petroleum, 261 Tuyere, improved, for blast furnaces, 31 U. UNITED States assay office in New York, 52 Uniformity of speed in ships of war, 61 V. VARLEY'S patent boiler feeder, 389 Vegetable hair, 133 Venetian glass, 94 Ventilation of large halls, 92 Ventilating millstones, 192 Ventilator, Archimedian screw, the, 499 W. WALKER-MONEY breech-loading rifle, 31 Warehouse door in Cannon-street, 368 Water ballast roller, 483 Waterproof paper or glazed fabrics, 127 Weights and measures for India, 71 White gunpowder, 101 Whitworth gun, 421, 441 Wilder's magnetic telegraph, 329 Wilson's patent locomotive cotton press for India, 805 Wimbledon, 1868, 62 Wreck register and chart for 1867, 306 Wrought-iron cranes, 23 |