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Martini-Henry rifle, the, W., 139

Mint in Parliament, the, A Traduced Coiner, 86
Ordinary tip waggons, chilled wheels for, C.E., 230
Ozokerit, A. de B., 230, 247; One of the Patentees, 266
Portland cement, the inventor of, X., 302
Retirement of Mr. Reed, the, Assoc. I. N. A., 50
Safety valves to steam boilers, Ignoramus, 13

Ship's anchor stock and fluke, W. W. Kiddle, 13; com-
pass, a steady, W. W. Kiddle, 13; pumps, working,
W. W. Kiddle, 32

Steam boilers, second-hand, H. Hiller, 446

Utilising vegetable fibres, A. Dembinsky, 479

Zinc for galvanic batteries, James Howard, 67

Creation of gold, the, 452, 471

Fixed steam engine of 10-horse power, Underhill's, 207
Floating dry dock, Morell's steam sailing and, 96
Floyd's apparatus for clearing the surface of rails of
sand, 12

Food, the sanitary influence of, 380
Foreign mints, reports on, 380
Fortifications of Paris, the, 335
France, the Whitworth gun in, 136
Free libraries, Manchester, 424

Freeman's apparatus for moving railway carriages into
stations, &c., 137

French gunmaker's opinion of the Martini-Henry rifle,
117; Atlantic cable, repairing the, 365
Fret machines, cutting wood by, 192

Croydon, Irrigation Farming Company, limited, the, 97; Frigates, light, 217

visit of the Society of Engineers to, 219

Crystal Palace, the, 300, 543

Crusher, Hancock's improved bone, 99

Fuel, liquid, 12

Furnace for the fusion of minerals, Metcalf's, 211
Furnaces and boilers, Hopkinson's improvements in, 330
Future, Japan and its, 184

Currency of Japan, trade and, 326, 341; English silver, Fusion of minerals, Metcalf's furnace for the, 211

273

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GALES, easterly, 317

Gallery, the Grosvenor, 102

G.

Galloway's patent new motive power, 134
Gamgee's method of preserving meat, 103
Garden hose nozzle, Barton's, 443

Gas meters, Walker's improvements in, 134; referees on
the sulphur question, the, 147, 164; regulator, Strode's,

389

Gasworks, the Beckton, 112; of Paris and the siege, the,
207; private, 46

Gatling battery gun in England, the, 329; mitrailleuse,
the American, 152
Gauge, railway, 253

Gear for chaff cutters, Southwell's improved, 81
Gems and precious stones, 423

Geography, influence of science on physical, 112
German North Pole expedition, the, 336

Germany, the cable system of river navigation in, 391
Gilded needles, 264

Glass, the manufacture of plate, 293

Gold, the creation of, 452; and silver coins of the realm,
standards for testing the purity and weight of, 363
Goole alum works' chimney, 207

Government and the Factory Act, the, 439
Governor, Bourne's spherical steam engine, 209; engine,
Tangye's high speed, 83

Grain, Brown and Polson's improvements in hulling, 332
Gravitating wire rope tramways, Palmer's, 27
Great Britain, railway damages in, 349; Northern
graph, the, 420

Green and Son's, 387; cottages for miners and agri
cultural labourers, 164; hydro-pneumatic safe, 28; ink
stand, Hancock's, 245; means of propelling vessels
Tyrer's, 333; metallic packing, Fairlie's, 258; mode of
cleaning the tubes of vertical boilers, 384; permanen,
way of railways, Morris's, 114; pianoforte action, 315
rotary pump and water pressure engine, Cooke's, 171
rotary engine, Hall's, 135; sea messenger, Black's, 299;
sewing machine, 65; screw carriage and wagzon jack,
Ball's, 6; screw steering apparatus, Jackson Brothers,
shifting gear for chaff cutters, 81; shingling hammer,
Head's, 63; steam traction engine, 173; steam water
heater, Mack's, 186; system of railways, Tiranoff's, 62;
tenoning and mortising machine, Jelley, Son, and Jones,
425; tool or cutter for planing, rabbeting, and sawing
wood, Llewellyn's, 227.

Improvements in apparatus for puddling iron, Ponsard's
188; in apparatus for regulating the flow of water,
Chameroy's, 191; in axle-boxes for carriage and cart
wheels, Partridge's, 459; in Bessemer's steel, American
169; in breech-loading firearms, Zeller's, 206; in boiler
fittings, Bailey's, 260; in clips or shears, 281; in the
construction of ships, Wilkins's, 314; in double furrow
ploughs, Woofe's, 169; in dry earth closets, 29, 300;
in firearms, Tranter's, 98; in fireplaces or stoves,
Pritchett's, 243; in furnaces and boilers, Hopkinson's,
330; in gas meters, Walker's, 134; the Holborn Valley,
25; hulling grain, Brown and Polson's, 332; in the,
manufacture of stockings and other looped fabrics,
Keely's,; 351; Metropolitan, 38; in moving heavy guns,
Brown's, 224; in operating the dampers of steam
boilers, Brusch's, 333; in optical apparatus. 132; in
pianofortes, 280; in propellers, Keppler's, 225; in
pressing hops, grains, &c., Pontifex and Son's, 224; in
railway axle-boxes, Beuther's, 348; in railway construe-
tion, 146; in separating silver from ores, Claudet's, 205;
in slide valves Smart's, 260; in steam engines, Dennison
and Teall's, 188; in steam engines, Wilson's, 439; in
treating fibres, 258; in treating iron ores, 242; in
water meters and mode of lining cylinders, Pocock's'
422.

Immoralities of the truck system, the, 891
Imperishable timber, selecting, 11

India, the mineral wealth of, 120; public works in, 308;
Industries of Prussia, the, 302
public works department of, 418

Inexpensive photographic lenses, 148

Influence of food, the sanitary, 380; science on physical
geography, 112

Inkstand, Hancock's improved, 245
Inspection of steam boilers, 23

Institute, Iron and Steel, 19

Tele-Institution of Engineers in Scotland, 23

Green and Son's improved construction of steam boilers,

387

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Gun in England, the Gatling battery, 329; the Lynam
accelerator, 97; the Whitworth, in France, 136
Gun-carriages, rival, 155

EARTH CLOSETS, Parker's improvements in dry, 29, Gunboats, 361

300

Easterly galas, 317

Eclipse of the sun, the total, 400, 436, 455; expedition,
the American government, 336
Economy of cofferdams, relative, 379

Efficiency of an educated national army, on the, 227
Egyptian engineering and modern warehouses, 426
Electric light, the, 201

Electricity and telegraphy, 21, 113, 148, 202, 239, 292, 403
445, 475

Electro deposition of copper and brass, on the, 282; mag-
netic anemometer, and the mode of using it in register-
ing the velocity and pressure of the wind on a new,

282

183, 272, 398

Elementary papers on designing machinery, 21, 55, 127,
Elliott's apparatus for ventilating ships, buildings, and
mines, 315

Engine, Cook's improved rotary pump and water pres-
sure, 171; the Fairlie Tarapaga, 137; Hall's improved
rotary, 135; Underhill's fixed steam, 207; Tangye's
high speed governor, 83; Yule's improved steam trac-
tion, 44; governor, Bourne's spherical steam, 209
Engines, Dennison and Teall's improvements in steam,
188; of the "Kirkstall" steamship, the, 385
Engineering old and new, 365; college, the new, 435;
operation, remarkable, 329

England, breech-loaders for, 127; as an iron-producing
country, Belgium compared with, 174; the Gatling
battery gun in, 329

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Gunmaker's opinion of the Martini-Herry rifle, a French,

117

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Harrow collision, the, 451
Harvey's torpedo, Captain, 97
Hawley and Hill's improved apparatus for preventing
waste of water, 295

Heating buildings, Truss's improved boilers for, 317; ap-
Head's improved shingling hammer, 63
Heavy guns, Brown's improvements in moving, 224
paratus boiler, explosion of-a caution, 409
Her Majesty's Ships "Monarch" and "Vanguard," 347
Hinckley knitting machine, the, 42, 47
High speed regulating governor engine, Tangye's, 83
History of military fire-arms, the, 218
Hodgson's tramway at Brighton, the, 226
Hoisting machinery on board ship, 3, 73, 110
Holborn Valley improvements, 25

Exhibition, annual international, 352; buildings, the, 155; Hops and grains, Pontifex and Son's machinery for
of the Photographic Society, 364

Expedition, the German North Pole, 336

Experiments at Shoeburyness, gunnery, 150, 168; recent
torpedo, 276, 289, 307; at the Royal Polytechnic Insti-
tution, medical, 48; on swimming, 10
Explosion at Birmingham, the, 434: of a heating appa
ratus boiler-a caution, 409; at Kiel, the torpedo, 175
Explosions, boiler, their number and causes, 192, 201
Extension submarine cable, the British-Indian, 220; tele-
graph Acts, 131; works at Chatham dockyard, 40

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International Exhibition, annual, 352; the working men's,
Invention, the commercial aspect of, 55
43, 61

Inventions, patents for, 343

Irish Mail, the accident to the, 217, 235
Iron-clad ram "Hotspur," H.M., 477; ships, small, 256
Iron districts of Belgium, the, 30; the durability of, 1;
ores, improvements in treating, 242; Ponsard's im-
provements in apparatus for puddling, 188; refined, 409;
trade, British, 103; trade of North Germany, 151
Iron and steel, manufacture of, 818; papers on, 156;
association, American, 30; institutes, 19; institute,
meeting at Merthyr, 208, 264; Peters's new process of
manufacturing, 101

Ironworks, a model, 136; in the Merthyr district, the,

318

Ironworkers, English and Continental, 389
Irrigation, prize essay on, 169; and the Gwynne centri-
fugal pump, 31

J.

JACKSON Brothers' improved screw steering apparatus,

173

Japan and its future, 184; Extension Telegraph Co., the
China and, 420; leather paper in, 331; trade and
currency of, 326, 344
Japanese mint, new, 406

Jarrow iron and shipbuilding works, the, 209
Jelley, Son, and Jones' improved tenoning and mortising
machine, 425

Jenner and Knewstub's " bag of bags," 441
Jones and Elliott's improvements in slide valves, 477

K.

KEELY'S improvements in the manufacture of stockings
and other looped fabrics, 351

Kiel, the torpedo explosion at, 175

Kinzler and Keppler's improvements in propellers, 225
"Kirkstall" steamship, the trial trip of the, 331; the
engines of the, 385

Knitting machine, the Hinckley, 42, 47; stockings, Clark's
machine for, 460

L.

LAMP for the Thames Embankment, the selected, 65
Last year's coinage at the British Mint, 454

Polson's improvements

Latent heat, Benevides' apparatus for indicating the pro-
perties of steam and, 245

tubes, 407
Hulling grain, Brown and
in, 332
Humanity, the science of, 163
Huxley on the formation of coal, 390
Hyde Park, nature and art in, 111
Hydro-pneumatic safe, Chatwood's, 28

I.

ICE, Mignot's improved apparatus for making, 404
Illinois and St. Louis bridge, the, 442, 464, 478
Improved apparatus for the manufacture of sugar,
Hardy's, 330; dressing and finishing leather, Priestman
and Son's, 423; preventing waste of water, Hawley and
Hills', 295; refrigerating beer and other liquids, and for
making ice, 404; testing cement and other blocks, 458
Improved axle-box, Alliott and Sellers', 85; breech-loading
firearms, Hanson's, 116; Bogie engines and elastic self-
adjusting railway carriage wheels, 49; bone crushers,
Hancock's, 99; construction of boiler for heating
buildings, Truss's, 317: construction of steam boilers,

Lathe, a self-feeding turning, 65

Lead pipes, poisonous, 187

Le Brun-Virloy's (M.) improvements in treating ores, 242
Leather machine bands, 114; paper in Japan, 331;
Priestman and Son's apparatus for finishing and
dressing, 423

Leigh's proposed Channel ferry, 297

Lenses, inexpensive photographic, 140; photographic, 204
Letts and Co.'s map of the seat of war, 83
Liebig's extract of meat, 283

Light, the electric, 201; frigates, 217; gold, 3, 20, 38
Liquid food, meal and meat extract for, 102; fuel, 12
Literature, scientific, 343
Lithography, an art, 49

Llewellyn's improved tool or cutter for planing, rabbet-
ing, and sawing wood, 227
London and County Bank, 115; a directory for the city
of, 194; Allen's apparatus for self-flushing the main
sewers of, 263; Association of Foremen Engineers, 28,
64, 118, 192, 353, 408, 425, 479; dwelling houses on the

fringe of, 397; Hospital, fire-extinguishing appliances
at the, 265; Institution, the, 298, 391

Loss of the Captain," the, 199, 217, 236, 265, 282, 308
Luminous meteors, 279

Lynam accelerator gun, the, 97

M.

MACABIES' self-acting water feeders for boilers, 277
Macdermott and Williams's machine for twisting metal
augers, drills, &c., 276

Machine, Anderson's powder pellet, 281; band, leather,
114; bands, wire sewn leather, 424; for knitting stock-
ings, Clark's, 460; the Hinckley, 42, 47; for tenoning
and mortising, Jelley, Son, and Jones', 425; guns, 128;
Gwynne's dredging, 463; the Chalon aerial, 78
Machinery for pressing spent hops, grains, &c., Pontifex
and Son's, 224; used in the reclamation of the Stadil
Fjord, 243

Machines, cutting wood by fret, 192

Mack's improved steam water heater, 186

Operation, remarkable engineering, 329
Opinion of the Martini-Henry rifie, a French gunmaker's,

117

Optical apparatus, improvements in, 132; illusions, the
Polytechnic ghosts and, 114

Ores, Claudet's improvements in separating silver from,
205; improvements in treating iron, 242
Organisation of the Prussian army, 334, 383, 443, 462
Oudh and Rohilcund Railway, bridge for the, 327; well
pumps for the, 402

Rating of property, 272

Recent torpedo experiments, 276, 289, 307.
Reclaiming land from the sea, 39

Reclamation of the Stadil Fjord, machinery used in the,
243

Recovery of the "Captain," proposed, 277

Reducing metal rods, bars, and tubes, Hughes' mode of,

407

Reed, Mr. E. J., on the Navy, 472
Refined iron, 409

apparatus for, 404
Refuge, our ports of, 163

Our armaments, 310, 327; artillery, 300: coast defences-Refrigerating beer and making ice, Mignot's improved
Portsmouth, 253; defences, 91; munitions of war, 181;
ports of refuge, 163; sanitary regulations, 271; trade
and the war, 353; best military model, 479
Overhauling the standards, 235
Oxford Show, the, 75, 99
Ozokerit, 211, 283

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Mail, the accident to the Irish, 217, 235
Making and working, contrasts in railway, 405
Mal-administration, naval, 416

102, 314, 372

Manchester free libraries, 424; Steam Users' Association,
Manoeuvring moving torpedoes, 325
Manufacture of iron and steel, 318; of plate glass, the,
293; sugar, Hardy's improved apparatus for the, 330
Manufacturing iron and steel, Peters's new process of, 101
Martini-Henry rifle, a French gunmaker's opinion of the,
117; at Wimbledon, 86

Masks and faces-stage properties, 434

Mauritius dry dock, Gwynne and Co.'s pumping machi-
nery at the, 294

Meat extract for liquid food, 102; Gamgee's method of
preserving, 103; Liebig's extract of, 283

Mechanical draughtsmen, 165; engineers, conference of,
119; Engineers, Institution of, 372

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Palace, the Crystal, 300

Palmer's gravitating wire rope tramways, 27
Papers on iron and steel, 156, 186

Paris and its defences, 335; gasworks and the siege, the,

207

Parker's improvements in dry earth closets, 29, 300
Parliament, the Mint in, 56

Partridge's improvements in axle-boxes for carriage and
cart wheels, 459
Passenger platforms at railway stations, 91
Patent agents in America, bow they are treated, 192; diffi-
culties, 133; spanner, Britain's, 11; steam water heater,
Mack's improved, 186

Patents for inventions, 343, 397
Paying gauge for railways, 441, 476
Peat and its profitable utilisation, 456
Permanent carbon photographs, 312; photographs, prin-
ciples involved in the production of, 346; way of rail-
ways, Morris's improved, 114
Perpetuum mobile, 246

Regulating the flow of water, Cameroy's improvements
in apparatus for, 191; governor engine, Tangyer, 83,
Regulator, Strode's gas, 389

Relative economy of coffer-dams, 379

Repairing the French Atlantic cable, 365

Reports on foreign mints, 380

Resignation of the Chief Constructor, the, 87

Resources of British India, 167; and railways of Califor-

nia, the, 76

Rifle, a French gunmaker's opinion of the Martini-Henry,
117; the Werder (Bavarian), 278

Rifles, our ships and breech-loading, 388
River navigation in Germany, the cable system of, 891
Rival gun carriages, 155
Rivers, silting up of, 109; pollution commission, 129
Robey's feeder for thrashing machines, 485.
Rock drill, the Burleigh, 102

Rohilcund railway, well pumps for the Oudh and, 102
Romford sewage farm, the, 458

Rotary engine, Hall's improved, 185; puddler, Danks's,
194; pump and water pressure engine, Cooke's im
proved, 171

Royal Institution, the, 22, 473; Agricultural meeting at
Oxford, 82, 99; Agricultural Society of England, 65;
Albert Hall, 463; Horticultural Society at Oxford, the,
102; Humane Society, 465; Institute of British Archi
tects, 12; Polytechnic Institution, 370; medical experi-
ments at the, 48

Russia, the metallic wealth of, 95

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Meters, Pocock's improvements in, 422; Walker's im- Poisonous lead pipes, 187
provements in gas, 134

Method of preserving meat, Gamgee's, 103

Metropolitan District Railway, the, 5; improvements, 38
Mignot's improved apparatus for refrigerating beer and
other liquids and for making ice, 404
Milner's safes and the British Association, 229
Mineral and industrial resources of Silesia, 19, 56, 145,
181, 238, 290, 363; pulveriser, Camroux's, 8; wealth of
India, 120

Minerals, Metcalf's furnace for the fusion of, 211

164

Miners and agricultural labourers, improved cottages for,
Mines along the Union Pacific Railroad, coal, 9; and
ships, Elliot's apparatus for ventilating, 315
Mint in Parliament, the, 56; new Japanese, 406
Mints, reports on foreign, 380

Miscellanea, 13, 32, 51, 67, 87, 104, 121, 141, 159, 176, 195
212, 230, 248, 267, 285, 303, 320, 338, 356, 374, 392, 410)
428, 447, 466, 480

Mitrailleuse, the, 109; at Shoeburyness, the, 417; the
American Gatling, 152; the French, 64
Model ironworks, a, 136

"Monarch" and "Vanguard," H.M.S., 347

Moody's sailing craft, 26

Moore's torpedo boats, 351

Morell's steam sailing and floating dry dock, 96

Morris's permanent way of railways, 114

Movements of torpedo boats, Ballard's apparatus
guiding the, 133

Moving heavy guns, Brown's improvements in, 224
Muller's new water meter, 119

Munitions of war, our, 181

N.

65

Pollack, Schmidt, and Co.'s improved sewing machine,
Polytechnic ghosts and optical illusions, the, 114; institu-
tion, Royal, 370

188

Ponsard's improvements in apparatus for puddling iron,
Pontifex and Sons' machinery for pressing spent hops,
grains, &c., 224

Portland cement, 280
Ports of refuge, our, 163

Post Office, true time and the, 403
Portsmouth, on the coast defence, 258
Powder pellet machine, Anderson's, 281
Practical application of the chronoscope, 74
Precious metals, 409; stones, gems and, 423
Preservation of timber, on the, 137

Pressure engine, Cooke's improved rotary pump and
water, 171; recorder for the engine at the "Times"
printing office, 9

Priestman and Son's improved apparatus for dressing and
finishing leather, 423

Principles involved in the production of permanent photo-
graphs, 346

Printing machine, the Wharfedale two-feeder, 80
Pritchett's improvements in fireplaces or stoves, 243
Private bills of the session, 465; gasworks, 46, 84
Prize essay on irrigation, 169

for Problem of the age, the, 154

NATURE and art in Hyde Park, 111
Natural and artificial productions of China, 93
Naval mal-administration, 416; architects, 382; architects,
Institution of, 313; military, and gunnery items, 13, 32,
50, 67, 86, 104, 121, 140, 158. 175, 194, 212, 230, 248, 266,

284, 302, 319, 338, 355, 374, 392, 410, 428, 446, 485, 480
Navy, coal for our, 92; Mr. E. J. Reed on the, 172
Needle gun, the Chassepot and the, 66, 427
Needles, gilded, 264; pins and, 423
New description of street conveyance, 43; church clock,
464; Japanese mint, 406; process of manufacturing iron
and steel, Peters', 101; water meter, Muller's, 119
New South Wales, facts about, 352; coal trade, 211
North Pole expedition, the German, 336; Somerset Rail-
way, Bristol and, 81; of England Institute of mining
and mechanical engineers, 172; Germany, the iron
trade of, 151
Norton and Bailey's steam pressure recorder for the
"Times" office, 9
Notes on recent discoveries in science and their practical
application, 5, 23, 58, 77, 167, 185, 203, 239; by Quidnunc,
5, 22, 40, 58, 77, 96, 113, 132, 149, 166, 185, 220, 255, 292,
311, 328, 347, 364, 401, 438, 473
Number and causes of boiler explosions, 192
Numerical theorem, with practical applications on a, 298

0.

OIL axle-boxes, Beuther's improvements in, 348
Opening of the Thames Embankment, the, 43

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SAFE, Chatwood's improved hydro-pneumatic, 98
Sailing and floating dry dock, Morell's steam, 96; oraft
Capt. John Moody's, 26

Salt mines and salt manufacture in Cheshire, description
of the, 7

Sanitary influence of food, the, 380; regulations, our, 271;
science, 236

Sawing wood, Llewellyn's improved cutter for planing
and, 227

Science of humanity, the, 163; on physical geography,
influence of, 112; saritary, 236

Scientific knowledge, the boundaries of, 256; literature,
343

Screw carriage and waggon jack, Ball's improved, 6;
shafts, Brown's thrust block for, 443; steering appa
ratus, Jackson Brothers' improved, 173
Sea messenger, Black's improved, 299
Selected lamp for the Thames Embankment, 65
Self feeding turning lathe, a, 65

Separating metallic substances by maguetism, Vavin's
apparatus for, 117; silver from ores, Claudet's improve-
ments in, 205

Serpentine in Hyde Park, 111

Sewage farm, the Romford, 453; the utilisation of, 300
Sewers, Allen's apparatus for self flushing, 263

Sewing machine, improved, 65

Shearing and washing animals, Wilson's apparatus
for, 245

Shifting gear for chaff cutters, Southwell's improved, 81
Shingling hammer, Head's improved, 63

Ship canals, projected, 99; the engines of the "Kirkstall"
steam, 385

Ships and breech-loading rifles, our, 383; Elliot's apparatus
for ventilating mines, buildings, and, 315; small iron-
clad, 256; Wilkins' improvements in the construction
of, 314

Shipbuilding works, the Jarrow iron and, 209
Shoeburyness, gunnery experiments at, 150, 168, the
mitrailleuse at, 417

Siege of Paris, the gasworks and the, 207
Siemens' pyrometer, 328

Signal service in America, the storm, 248

Silica, on artificial stone and various kinds of, 354
Silkstone coalfield, the, 133

Silver, American supply of, 373; coins for Canada, the
coinage of, 2; currency, English, 278; from ores,
Claudet's improvements in separating, 205

Proposed Channel ferry, Leigh's, 297; recovery of the Silting up of rivers, 109-
"Captain," 277

Prussia, the industries of, 302

Prussian army, organisation of the, 334, 383, 443, 462
Public works in India, 308; Department of India, 418
Puddler, Danks's rotary, 194

Puddling, 92; iron, Hansard's improvements in apparatus

for, 188

Pulveriser, stone crusher and mineral, 8

Pump, Baumann's direct-acting steam, 257, 871
Pumps for the Oudh and Rohilcund Railway, well, 402
Pupils, engineering, 291
Pyrometer, Siemens', 328
Pyrometers, Bailey's adjustable, 11

R.

RABBETING and drawing wood, Llewellyn's improved
cutter for, 227
Railroad, coal mines along the Union Pacific, 9
Railway accommodation, 254; faxles, 103; axle-boxes,
Beuther's improvements in, 318; damages in Great
Britain, 349; bridge for the Oudh and Rohilcund, 327;
construction, improvements in, 146; gauge, 258;
making and working, contrasts in, 405; management,
325; the Metropolitan District, 5; stations, passenger
platforms at, 91; system of Russia, the, 193, 226, 257,
$16, 388

Railways, assessment of, 246; of California, the, 76;
Morriss's improved permanent way of, 114; the paying
gauge of, 441, 474; Tiranoff's improved system of, 62
Rainfall and water supplies, 399

Singapore Gas Company, the, 316
Sleeping car system in America, the, 301

Slide valves, Jones and Elliott's improvements in, 477;
Smart's improvements in, 250

Small iron-clad ships, 256; self-feeding turning lathe, a,
Smithfeld Club Show, 373, 415

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Society of Engineers at Oroydon, the, 219; of Agricultural
Co-operation, 85

Soper rifle, the, 115

South African diamonds, 421

South Australian enterprise, 318

Southall, Ealing, and Shepherd's Bush Tram Ballway
Company (Limited), 12

Southwell's improved shifting gear for chaff cutters, 81
Spanner, Brittain's patent, 11

Spectroscope, a solar, 420

Spherical steam engine governor, Bourne's, 209
Spinning tobacco, Wharton's apparatus for, 276
Stadil Fjord, machinery used in the reclamation of the,
243

Stage properties-masks and faces, 484
Standards for testing the purity and weight of gold and
silver coins of the realm, the, 363; overhauling the, 285
State of the turret-ship question, the present, 4
"Stationers' Gazette," the, 193

Stations and sidings, Freeman's apparatus for moving
railway carriages into, 137; passenger platforms at rad-
way, 91
Statue of the late Professor Graham, 331
"Staunch," H.B.M. gunboat, 361
Steam and latent heat, Benevide's apparatus for indicating
the properties of, 245; boiler inspection, on, 28; boilers

Brusch's improvements in operating the dampers of,
333; boilers, Green and Son's improved construction of,
387; engines, Dennison and Teall's improvements in,
188; engine governor, Bourne's spherical, 209; engine
of ten-horse power, Underhill's fixed, 207; engines,
Wilson's improvements in, 439; fire engines for France,
442; power afloat, auxiliary, 309; pressure recorder for
the "Times" office, 9; pump, Baumann's direct-acting
257, 371; sailing and floating dry dock, Morell's, 96;
ship, the engines of the "Kirkstall," 385; traction en-
gine, Yule's improved, 44; water heater, Mack's im-
proved, 186

Steel Association, annual report of the American, 30;
manufactures, American, 408; Peters's new process of
manufacturing iron and, 101

Steering apparatus, Jackson Brothers' improved screw,

173

Stockings and other looped fabrics, Keely's improvements
in the manufacture of, 351; Clark's machine for knit-
ting, 460

Stone crusher and mineral pulveriser, 8
Storm signal service in America, the, 243

Stoves, Prichett's improvements in fireplaces or, 248
Strasburg clock, the, 154

Street conveyance, new description of, 43
Strode's gas regulator, 389

Submarine cable, the British-Indian extension, 220
Substances by magnetism, separating metallic, 117
Sugar, Hardy's improved apparatus for the manufacture
of, 33

Sulphur question, the Gas Referees on the, 147, 164, 182
Sun, the total eclipse of the, 400, 436, 455
Sun's rays, work performed by the, 118
Supply, water, 190

Swimming, experiments on, 10; the rescue of life by, 10

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Tiranoff's improved system of railways, 62
Tobacco spinning_apparatus, Wharton's, 276
Torpedo, Captain Harvey's, 97; boats, Ballard's apparatus
for guiding and controlling, 153; Moore's, 351; experi-
ments, recent, 276, 289, 307; explosion at Kiel, the,
175

Torpedoes, manoeuvring moving, 325
Total eclipse of the sun, the, 400, 436
Town sewage, utilisation of, 95
Traction engine, Yule's improved, 44
Trade, British iron, 103; and currency of Japan, 326, 344;
and the war, our, 352, 353

Tramway, Addis's single line, 65; at Brighton, the
"Hodgson," 226

Tramways, Palmer's wire rope, 27
Tranter's improvements in firearms, 98
Traveller's transit theodolite, the, 187
Treating iron ores, improvements in, 242; fibres, Cattell's
improvements in, 258

Trial of armour-plates, 207; trip of the "Abyssinia," 3
Truck system in the Black Country, the, 354, 362; the
immoralities of the, 391

True time and the Post Office, 403

Truss's improved construction of boilers for heating build-
ings, 317

Tubes of vertical boilers, Pinchbeck's improved mode of
cleaning the, 384

Turning lathe, a self-feeding, 65

Turret-ship controversy, 103; question, the present state
of the, 4

Twisting metal augers, drills, &c., Macdermott and Wil.

liams' machine for, 276

Type, composing and distributing, 314
Tyrer's improved means of propelling vessels, 333

U.

UNDERHILL'S fixed steam engine of 10-horse power, 207
Union Pacific Railroad, coal mines along the, 9
Utilisation of sewage, the, 95, 300
Utilising vegetable fibres, 459

V.

VALVES, Smart's improvements in slide, 258
Varnish tree, the, 50

Vavin's apparatus for separating metallic substances by
magnetism, 117

Vegetable fibres, utilising, 459

Ventilating ships, mines, &c, Elliot's apparatus for, 315
Vertical boilers, Pinchbeck's improved mode of cleaning
the tubes of, 384

Victoria and Albert Embankments, the, 74
Visit of the Society of Engineers to Croydon, 219

W.

WALKER'S improvements in gas meters, 134
War, advance of science and art in, 227; Letts and Co.'s
map of the seat of, 83; materiel, additions to our, 426;
our munitions of, 181; purposes, balloons for, 354;
trade and the, 352, 353

Warren's cooking apparatus, 353
Water, Chameroy's improvements in apparatus for regulat-
ing the flow of, 191; feeders for boilers, Macabie's self-
acting, 277; Hawley and Hill's improved apparatus for
preventing waste of, 295; heater, Mack's improved
steam, 186; meter, Muller's new, 119; meters, Pocock's
improvements in, 422; pressure engine, Cooke's im-
proved rotary pump and, 171; supplies, rainfall and,
399; supply, 190

Waggon jack, Ball's improved screw carriage and, 6
Weights and measures, 444

Wealth of Russia, the metallic, 95; of India, the
mineral, 120

Weekly chemical, mineral and metal report, 31, 50, 66,
104, 120, 139, 158, 175, 194, 211, 229, 247, 266, 284, 302,
319, 337, 354, 373, 391, 427, 446, 465

Well pumps for the Oudh and Rohilcund Railway, 402
Werder ride, the (Bavarian), 278

Wharfdale two-feeder printing machine, the, 80
Wharton's tobacco spinning apparatus, 276
Whitworth gun, the, 37; gun in France, the, 136; scholar
ships, 120

Williams' machine for twisting metal augers, drills,

&c., 276

Wilkins's improvements in the construction of ships, 314
Wilson's improvements in steam engines, 439; apparatus
for shearing and washing animals, 245
Wimbledon, the Martini-Henry rifle, at, 86
Wind force, on, 130

Wire rope tramways, Palmer's, 27
Wire sewn leather machine bands, 424
Wonders, American, 136

Wood by fret machines, cutting, 192; Llewellyn's im-
proved cutter for planing and sawing, 227

Woofe's improvements in double furrow ploughs, 169
Working Men's Club and Institute Union, 400; Men's
College, 352

Workmen's Exhibition, the, 43, 61, 76, 315
Work performed by the sun's rays, 118

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YULE'S improved steam traction engine, 44

Z.

ZELLER'S improvements in breech-loading firearms, 206

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ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. XXIV.

GARDEN hose nozzle, Barton's, 443

Gas meters, Walker's improvements in, 134; regulator,
Strode's, 389

Gatling American mitrailleuse,152

Gear for chaff cutters, Southwell's improved shifting, 81
Governor, Bourne's spherical steam engine, 209; engine,
Tangye's high speed, 83

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LAMP for the Thames Embankment, the selected, 65
Latent heat, Benevides' apparatus for indicating, 245
Leather, Priestman and Sons' apparatus for dressing, 423
Le Brun-Virloy's improvements in treating iron ores, 242

Green and Son's improved construction of steam boilers, Leigh's proposed Channel ferry, 297

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ICE, Mignot's apparatus for making, 404, 405
Improved apparatus for dressing leather, Priestman and
Son's, 423; preventing waste of water, Hawley and
Hill's, 296; refrigerating beer and making ice, 404,
405; for testing cement, 458; for the manufacture of
sugar, Hardy's, 330

Improved axle-box, Alliott and Sellers's, 85; boilers for
heating buildings, Truss's, 317; bone crusher, Han-
cock's, 99; breech-loading firearms and cartridges,
Hanson's, 116; construction of steam boilers, Green
and Son's, 387; cutter for planing and sawing wood,
Llewellyn's, 227; inkstand, Hancock's, 245; means of
propelling vessels, Tyrer's, 333; metallic packing,
Fairlie's, 258; mode of cleaning the tubes of vertical
boilers, Piuchbeck's, 384; rotary engine, Hall's, 135;
rotary pump and water pressure engine, Cooke's, 171;
screw carriage and waggon jack, Ball's, 6; screw steering
apparatus, Jackson Brothers', 173; sea messenger,
Black's, 299; shifting gear for chaff cutters, Southwell's,
81; shingling hammer, Head's, 64; steam traction
engine, Yule's, 44; steam water heater, Mack's, 186;
system of railways, Tiranoff's, 62; tenoning and mor-
tising machine, Jelley, Son, and Jones's, 425; water
meter, Pocock's, 422

Improvements in apparatus for regulating the flow of
water, Chameroy's, 191; in axle-boxes for carriage and
cart wheels, Partridge's, 460; boiler fittings, Bailey's,

1261; breech loading firearms, Zeller's, 206; clips or

shears, 281; double-furrow ploughs, Woofe's, 170; dry

earth closets, Parker's, 29, 300; firearms, Tranter's, 98;

fireplaces or stoves, Pritchett's, 243; furnaces and

boilers, Hopkinson's, 380; gas meters, Walker's, 134;

hulling grain, Brown and Polson's, 332; oil axle-boxes,

Beuther's, 348; operating the dampers of steam boilers,

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Patent spanner, Brittain's, 11; steam force pump, Bau-
mann's, 371; water heater, Mack's, 186

Permanent way of railways, Morris's improvements in

the, 114

Peters's new process of manufacturing iron and steel,

Pontifex and Son's machinery for pressing spent hops,

grains, &c., 224

Powder pellet machine, Anderson's, 281

Pressing spent hops, grains, &c., Pontifex and Son's ma-

chinery for, 224

Pressure engine, Cooke's improved rotary pump and
water, 171; recorder for the engine at the "Times"
printing office, 9

Priestman and Son's improved apparatus for dressing
leather, 423

Printing machine, the "Wharfdale two-feeder," 80

Pritchett's improvements in fireplaces or stoves, 243

Propellers, Keppler's improvements in, 225

Propelling vessels. Tuyer's improved means of, 333
Proposed channel ferry, Leigh's, 297

Puddling iron, Ponsard's improvements in apparatus for,

189

Pulveriser, stone crusher and mineral, 8

P'umping machinery at the Mauritius dry dock, Gwynne
and Co.'s, 294

Pump, Baumann's steam, 371

l'umps for the Oudh and Rohilcund railway, well, 402
l'yrometer, Siemens,' 329

Pyrometers, Bailey's adjustable, 11

RABBETING and sawing wood Llewellyn's improved

cutter for planing, 227

Railway axle-boxes, Beuther's improvements in, 348
Railways, Morris's improvements in the permanent way
of, 114; Tiranoff's improved system of, 62

Reclamation of the Stadil Fjord, machinery used in, 243

Reducing metal rods, bars, and tubes, Hughes's method of,
407

Refrigerating beer and other liquids, Mignot's apparatus

for, 404, 405

Regulator, Strode's, 389

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Stations and sidings, Freeman's apparatus for moving
railway carriages into, 137

"Staunch," II.B.M. gunboat, 361, 368, 369

Steam and latent heat, Benevides' apparatus for indicating
the properties of, 245; boilers, Green and Son's im-
proved construction of, 387; boilers, Brusch's improve-
ments in operating the dampers of, 333; engine gover-
nor, Bournes' spherical, 209; engine of ten horse
power, Underhill's fixed, 207; engines, Dennison and
Teall's improvements in, 188; engines, Wilson's im-
provements in, 440; pump, Baumann's 371; sailing and
floating dry dock, Morell's, 96; traction engine, Yule's
improved, 44; water-heater, Mack's improved, 186

Steamship, the engines of the "Kirkstall," 386

Steel, Peters's process of manufacturing iron and, 101
Steering apparatus, Jackson Brothers' improved screw,

173

Stockings and other looped fabrics, Keely's improvements
in the manufacture of, 351; Clarke's machine for knit.
ting, 460

Stone crusher and mineral pulveriser, 8

Stoves, Prichett's improvements in fireplaces or, 243

Strode's gas regulator, 389

Substances by magnetism, Vavin's apparatus for separat-

ing, 117

Sugar, Hardy's apparatus for the manufacture of, 330

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Traction engine, Yule's improved steam, 44
Tramway, Palmer's wire rope, 27
Tranter's improvements in firearms, 98
Traveller's transit theodolite, the, 137
Treating iron ores, improvements in, 242
Truss's improved boilers for heating buildings, 317
Tubes of vertical boilers, Pinchbeck's improved mode of
cleaning the, 384

Twisting metal augers, drills, &c., Macdermott and Wil.

liams' machine for, 276

Tyrer's improved means of propelling vessels, 333

VALVES, Smart's improvements in slide, 258

Vavin's apparatus for separating metallic substances by

magnetism, 117

Ventilating ships, mines, &c., Elliot's apparatus for, 315
Vertical boilers, Pinchbeck's improved mode of cleaning
the tubes of, 384

WAGGON jack, Ball's improved screw carriage and, 6
Walker's improvements in gas meters, 134
Washing and shearing animals, Wilson's apparatus for,
245

Water, Chameroy's improvements in apparatus for regulat-
ing the flow of, 191; feeders for boilers, Macabies' self-
acting, 278; Hawley and Hill's apparatus for pre-
venting the waste of, 296; heater, Mack's improved
steam, 186; meter, Muller's new, 119; meters, Pocock's
improved, 422; pressure engine, Cooke's improved
rotary pump and, 171

Well pumps for the Oudh and Rohilcund Railway, 402
Werder (Bavarian) rifle, the, 278

"Wharfdale" two-feeder printing machine, 80
Wharton's tobacco spinning apparatus, 276
Wilkins's improvements in the construction of ships, 314
Williams's machine for twisting metal augers, drills,
&c., 276

Wilson's apparatus for shearing and washing animals,
245; improvements in steam engines, 440
Wire rope tramway, Palmer's, 27

Wood, Llewellyn's improved cutter for sawing and
planing, 227

Woofe's improvements in double-furrow ploughs, 170

YULE'S improved steam traction engine, 44

ZELLER'S improvements in breech-loading firearms, 206

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