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
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
Gallery, the Grosvenor, 102
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,
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,
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
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,
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
Gunmaker's opinion of the Martini-Herry rifle, a French,
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
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,
Ironworkers, English and Continental, 389 Irrigation, prize essay on, 169; and the Gwynne centri- fugal pump, 31
JACKSON Brothers' improved screw steering apparatus,
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
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
LAMP for the Thames Embankment, the selected, 65 Last year's coinage at the British Mint, 454
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
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
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,
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,
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
Mail, the accident to the Irish, 217, 235 Making and working, contrasts in railway, 405 Mal-administration, naval, 416
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
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,
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-
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
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
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
Pollack, Schmidt, and Co.'s improved sewing machine, Polytechnic ghosts and optical illusions, the, 114; institu- tion, Royal, 370
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
OIL axle-boxes, Beuther's improvements in, 348 Opening of the Thames Embankment, the, 43
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
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
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
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,
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
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.
Type, composing and distributing, 314 Tyrer's improved means of propelling vessels, 333
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
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
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,
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
YULE'S improved steam traction engine, 44
ZELLER'S improvements in breech-loading firearms, 206
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. XXIV.
Alliott and Sellers's improved axle-box, 85
American mitrailleuse, the, 152
Anderson's powder pellet machine, 281
Apparatus for controlling the movements of torpedo
boats, Ballard's, 158; for dressing and finishing leather,
Priestman and Son's, 423; for indicating the properties
of steam and latent heat, Benevides', 245; Jackson
Brothers' screw steering, 173; for the manufacture of
sugar, Hardy's, 330; for moving railway carriages in
stations, &c., Freeman's, 137; for refrigerating beer and
making ice, Mignot's, 404, 405; for regulating the
flow of water, Chameroy's improvements in, 191; for
preventing the waste of water, Hawley and Hill's im-
proved, 296; for puddling iron, Ponsard's improvements
in, 189; for separating metallic substances by mag-
netism, Vavin's, 117; for spinning tobacco, Wharton's,
276; for testing cement and other blocks, 458; for
ventilating ships, mines, &c., Elliot's, 315; for washing
and shearing animals, Wilson's, 245
Axle-box, Alliott and Sellers's improved, 85
Axle-boxes, Beuther's improvements in oil, 348; for
carriage and cart wheels, Partridge's improvements
in, 460
sure, 171; the Fairlie Tarapaga, 137; Hall's improved
rotary. 135; Underhill's fixed steam, 207; Tangye's
high seed 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, 386
FAIRLIE'S improved metallic packing, 258
Ferry, Leigh's proposed Channel, 297
Firearms and cartridges, Hanson's improved, breech-
loading, 116; Tranter's improvements in, 98; Zeller's
improvements in breech-loading, 206
Fireplaces or stoves, Pritchett's improvements in, 243
Fittings, Bailey's improvements in boiler, 261
Fixed steam engine of 10-horse power, Underhill's, 207
Floating dry dock, Morell's steam sailing and, 90
Force pump, Baumann's, 371
Fortifications of Paris, the, 335
Freeman's apparatus for moving railway carriages into
stations and sidings, 137
Furnaces and boilers, Hopkinson's improvements, 330
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
Boilers, Green and Son's improved construction of steam,
387; for heating buildings, Trass's improved, 317
Hopkinson's improvements in furnaces
Macabies' self-acting water feeders for, 278
Bone crusher, Hancock's improved, 99
Bourne's spherical steam engine governor, 209
Breech-loading firearms, Sellers's improvements in, 206;
and cartridges, Hanson's improved, 116
Brittain's patent spanner, 11
Brown and Polson's improvements in hulling grain, 332
Brown's improvements in moving heavy guns, 225;
thrust blocks for screw shafts, 443
Brusch's improvements in operating the dampers of steam
boilers, 333
Burning gas without the aid of a blast, 459
CAMROUX'S stone crusher and mineral pulveriser, 8
Captain John Moody's sailing craft, 26
Carriage and cart wheels, Partridge's improvements in
axle boxes for, 460; waggon jack, Bail's improved
screw, 6
Cartridges, Hanson's improved breech-loading firearms,
and, 116
Cement, apparatus for testing, 458
Chaff-cutters, Southwell's improved shifting gear for, 81 Chalon aerial machine, the, 78 Chameroy's improvements in apparatus for regulating the flow of water, 191
Channel ferry, Leigh's proposed, 297
Clark's machine for knitting stockings, 461
Clinometer and spirit level combined, improved, 473
Clips or shears, improvements in, 281
Closets, Parker's improvements in dry earth, 29, 300
Coal supply and colliery waste, 157
Construction of ships, Wilkins' improvements in the 314; of steam boilers, Green and Son's improved, 387
Cooke's improved rotary pump and water pressure
engine,171
Copper pyrites, apparatus for treating, 474
Crusher, Hancock's improved bone, 99
Cut flower packing case, 479
Cutter for planing and sawing wood, Llewellyn's im-
proved, 227
Brusch's, 333; moving heavy guns, Brown's, 220; pressing
spent hops, grains, &c., Pontifex and Sons, 224: ropol-
lers, Keppler's, 225; puddling iron, Ponsard's, 189; si le
valves, Smart's, 258; steam engines, Dennison and
Teall's, 188; steam engines, Wilson's, 440; the construc-
tion of ships, Wilkins's, 314; the manufacture of stock-
ings and other looped fabrics, Keely's, 351; the
permanent way of railways, 114; treating iron ores,
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
HALL'S improved rotary engine, 135
Hammer, improved shingling, 64
Hancock's improved bone crusher, 99; improved ink-
stand, 245
Hanson's improved breech-loading firearms and cart-
ridges, 116
Hardy's improved apparatus for the manufacture of
sugar, 330
Hawley and Hill's improved apparatus for preventing waste of water, 296
Head's improved shingling hammer, 64
Heating buildings, Truss's improved boilers for, 317
Heavy guns, Brown's improvements in moving, 224
High speed regulating governor engine, Tangye's, 83
Hinckley knitting machine, the, 42, 47
Hops and grains, Pontifex and Son's machinery for
pressing, 224
Hopkinson's improvements in furnaces and boilers, 330
Hughes and Kimber's printing machine, 80
Hughes's method of reducing metal rods, bars, and
tubes, 407
Hulling grain, Brown and Polson's improvements
in, 332
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,
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; the Chalon
aerial, 78; for tenoning and mortising, Jelley, Son, and
Jones's, 425; Gwynne's dredging, 463; for knitting
stockings, Clarke's, 461; for knitting, the Hinckley, 42,
47; for twisting metal augers, drills, &c., Macdermott's,
276
Machinery for pressing spent hops, grains, & .. Pontifex and Son's, 224; used in the reclamation of the Stadil Fjord, 243
Magnetism, Vavin's apparatus for separating metallic substances by, 117
Manufacture of iron and steel, new process of, 101; of sugar, Hardy's apparatus for the, 330
Mauritius dry dock, Gwynne and Co.'s pumping machi-
nery at the, 294
Mack's improved steam water heater, 186
Messenger, Black's improved sea, 299
Metal rods, bars, and tubes, Hughes's method of reducing,
Photographic lenses, 202; lenses, inexpensive, 148
Pinchbeck's improved mode of cleaning the tubes of
vertical boilers, 384
Planing and sawing wood, Llewellyn's improved cutter
for, 227
Ploughs, Woofe's improvements in double-furrow, 170
Pocock's improved water meter, 422
Ponsard's improvements in apparatus for puddling iron,
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,
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
Regulating the flow of water. Chameroy's improvements in apparatus for, 191; governor engine, Tangye's, 83
Rifle, the Werder (Bavarian) 279
Robey's feeder for thrashing machine, 438
Rotary engine, Hall's improved, 135; pump and water
pressure engine, Cooke's improved, 171
Rohilcund railway, well pumps for the Oudh and, 402
SAILING and floating dry dock, Morell's steam, 96
craft, Captain John Moody's, 26
Sawing wood, Llewellyn's improved cutter for planing
and, 227
Screw carriage and waggon jack, Ball's improved, 6; shafts, Brown's thrust blocks for, 443; steering appa- ratus, Jackson Brothers' improved, 173
Sea messenger, Black's improved, 299
Selected lamp for the Thames Embankment, the, 65
Separating metallic substances by magnetism, Vavin's
apparatus for, 117
Sewers, Allen's apparatus for self-flushing, 263
Shifting gear for chaff-cutters, Southwell's improved, 81
Shingling hammer, Head's improved, 64
Ship, the engines of the Kirkstall steam, 386
Ships, Elliot's apparatus for ventilating mines, buildings,
and, 315; Wilkins' improvements in the coustruction
of, 314
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,
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
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
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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