SUPPLEMENT TO "THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER," DEC. 25, 1891. Printed and Published for the Proprietor by BIGGS & Co., at "THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER" Offices, 139-140, Salisbury-court, Fleet-street, E.C. 1891, NOTE.-General Articles, Correspondence, and Companies' Meetings are indicated by heavier type (thus, 290) than the Notes, A. Abercanaid Colliery, Haulage Plant, 98, 222 Accumulators, Using up, 608 Agriculture, Electricity and, 196, 337 Akester Motor Company, Meetings, etc., 97 Allport, C. J., Failure of, 314 Alternator, Crompton's, 530 Aluminum Company, The, 239 Aluminium for Fittings, 553 Alternate Currents: Charging Accumulators by, 469, 518 for Electric Railways, 340, 445 the Frankfort Experiments, 123, 181, 195, 198, 205 for Lighting, N. Tesla, 63, 81, 110, 128, 159, 177, Motors for, 169, 246, 292, 554 Power Transmission by in Vienna, 27 American Influence, 468 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Million- American Telephone Company and Young, 24 Andes Railway, Tunnel Boring on, 99 Andrews and Preece v. Scott, 122 Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Meetings, etc., Appleyard, R., Measuring Resistance of Conductors Appointments Filled, 97, 98, 193, 314, 409, 433, 435, 577 Apprenticeship Question, An, 477 Arcas Plating, 413 Armature Cores, Granulated, 410 Armstrong, Prof., and the Electricians, 565 Atkinson and Elliott's Magnetic Bone Separator, 61 Atlantic Cable Companies, Early History of, 193 Austrian Telephone Company, Meetings, etc., 99, Ayer, JL. Art Lighting at St. Louis, 352, 377, 400 Ayrton, W. Hotatory Currents, 596 Anti-Sulphuric Enamel for, 483 Charging them by Alternating Currents, 469, 518 the D.P. Cell, 589 Edison's Plates, 554 Efficiency of, 364 Electrical Metal Working Company's, 485 E. P.S., 579 Faure's Patents in Germany, 409 Gadot's Patent, 73 Heyl's, 483 Robertson on, 536, 565, 567, 589 Scott and Sisling's Method of Charging, 270 and Swedish Import Duties, 49 for Tramcars, 1, 2, 39, 124, 170, 386, 413 (see also Beams, Flexure of, C. A. Carus-Wilson, 45 Bell, Electric and Alarm, Townley's, 35, 61, 110, 133 Bell Telephone Patents, 481 Bell's Asbestos Company, Meetings, etc., 24 Board of Trade Committee's Report on Electrical Board of Trade Laboratory, 362 Board of Trade, Memorial to re Overhead Wires, 563, 564 Board of Trade Standards Committee, 146 Boat Race Described by Telephone, 124 Boats, Electric (see LAUNCHES) Bolton Technical School, 220 Bone Separators, Magnetic, 9, 61 Books Received, 97, 169, 217, 241, 265, 409, 434 Borough Engineers and Electric Lighting, 12 Bottomley, W. F., Death of, 437 Bournemouth Telephone Exchanges, Fire at, 363 Boys, C. V., Pocket Electrometers, 46 Brake, Emergency, Porri's, 506 Brazilian Cables, New, 121, 125, 217 Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Company, Meetings, etc., 360, 384, 407 Brighton Lighting, 281 Britannia Co.'s Milling Machines, 63 British Association, Edinburgh Meeting, 193 Brockie-Pell Arc Lamp, 481 Brooks's Oil Insulation, 482 British Association, Cardiff Meeting: Ayrton and Rucker, Magnetic Field of South Bennett, A. R., Electrical Parcel Exchange System, 224 Bennett, A. R., Telephoning Cities, 232 Brown, T. F., Address to Section G, 188 Chattock, A. P., Electrification of Needle-Points, Discussion on Units, 415 Electrical Standards Committee's Report, 262 Forbes, G., Electric Motors, 258 Grants to Committees, 194 Gray, A., Electromagnetic Theory of the Rotation of the Plane of Polarised Light, 261 Leading Articles on, 156, 204, 253 Lodge, O. J., Address to Section A, 186, 209 Mond, R. L., Electrolytic Problems, 259 Preece, W. H., London-Paris Telephone, 211, 237 Preliminary Arrangements, 52, 101, 148 Presidential Address by Dr. Huggins, 180, 184, Robinson, William, Petroleum Oil Engines, 322 Swinburne, J., Liquid Resistances, 212; Variation of Clark Staudard Cells, 213, 240 Walker, S. F., on Science Missionaries, 254 Brown, C. E. L., High-Tension Currents, 296 Brown, F., Electric Tramways in America, 67, 77 Brown, T. J., Death of, 313 Cable Factory at Budapest, 481 Cables, Electric Light (see MAINS) Cables, New, 1, 97, 121, 125, 145, 146, 217, 241, 265, Calculating Machines, Electric, 241 Cadogan Electric Light Company, re, 477 Caledonian Telephone Co. and the Post Office, 577 Camberwell Vestry and Overhead Wires, 50 Canadian Cables, 267 Cannock Colliery Mining Plant, 410 Cautor Lectures (see KAPP) Carbon Transmitters for Telephones, 75 Carbon Trust, A, 1 Carbons, Liepmann Company's Stock, 481 Carbona, Saunderson's, 73 Car and Carriage Stopper, Automatic, 242 Cardiff Corporation, Electrical Engineer to, 98; Elec- Carlow Lighting, 60, 78, 84, 505 Central Institution Musical Society, 607 Central London Railway, 50, 97, 577, 616 Central Stations, Lectures on Power Generation and Chicago Exhibition, 25, 49, 51, 73, 169, 266, 290, 337, Chili Telephone Company, Meetings, etc., 47, 71 Chronograph, Electric, 411 City and Guilds Institute Examinations, 371, 577 City of London Electric Lighting Company, 25, 51, City of London (Pioneer) Electric Lighting Company, City and South London Railway Company, Meetings, Column Printing Machine, 219 Commission Case, A, 434 Commissioners of Sewers and the City Lighting, 2, 5, Companies' Meetings, Reports, etc. : Anglo-American Telegraph, 120, 140 Bath Electric Light, 242 Bell's Asbestos, 24 Blackpool Tramway, 502 Birmingham Central Tramways, 140 Brazilian Submarine, 358, 384, 407 Brush Company, 286, 333 Chili Telephone, 47, 71 City of London Lighting, 360, 380, 478 City and South London Railway, 23, 165 Crompton and Co., 95, 118, 455, 599 Eastern Extension Telegraph, 383, 407 Edison and Swan United, 71, 93 Electric Construction, 597, 614 Fowler-Waring Cables, 598, 616 Companies' Meetings, etc. (continued): India Rubber, etc., 47 Liverpool Overhead Railway, 167 Montevidean Telegraph, 168 St. James's Electric Lighting, 24, 599 Swan United, 502, 522 Telegraph Construction, 71 United River Plate Telephone, 120, 167 Western and Brazilian Telegraph, 455, 478 Woodhouse and Rawson United, 478, 492, 499, 504 Companies, New, see each Issue Companies' Share List, see each Issue Compound Engines, Double Cylinders for, 170 Concentric Wiring and ships' Compasses, 73 Conductors, I sulated, Specification of, W. H. Conductors, Economy in, H. W. Leonard, 243 Cooke, Sir Wm., his Letters Presented to Institution Cranes, Electric, Sandwell's, 365 Cranes, Electric, Schneider and Co.'s, 295 Crompton and Co., Meetings, etc., 95, 99, 118, 455, 599 Crompton's Australian Company, Meetings, 431 Crystal Palace Central Station (eð SYDƑÑÍÀM) Cumming, L., Electricity Treated Experimentally. 541 Current Density, Safe Limit of, J T. Sprague, 486 D. Darenth Asylum, Electrical Apparatus at, 433 Deaths (see OBITUARY NOTICES) Demon Water Motor, The, 465 Deptford Station, Progress of, 27, 194, 506 Dickenson, H. E., Death of, 170 Dieudonne, E., Paris Mains, 157, 175, 346, 375, 510, 590 Direct United States Cable Company, Meetings, etc., Distribution of Electrical Energy, W. C. Rechniewski, Distribution of Light on the Parallel System, Wood- Dover-Boulogue Cable, 145 Dover Lighting, 174, 109, 169, 283 601 Drawing in Cables, Voysey's Grip for, 347 Drehstrom Motors, 554, 581, 589 Drill, Electric, Work Done by on Granite, 25 Drill, Marvin's Electric, 220 Drilling Machine, Glover's, 453 Edison's Romance, 242 Edison's Secondary Battery Plates, 554 Edison and Sims Electric Lifeboats, 123 Edison-Sims Torpedo, 126, 146, 313, 348, 578 Edison-Swan Company v. Hamilton, 596 Edison and Swan United Company, Meetings, etc., Electric Arms Syndicate, 313, 381, 406 Electric Construction Company and the E. P.S. Cells, Electric Construction Corporation, Meetings, etc., Electric Installation Company, 169 Electric Lighting Acts and the Telephone, 51 Electric Lighting: for Aberdeen, 147, 339, 385 for Aberystwith. 399 Accident in Boston, U.S., 371; at Chelmsford, 434 at Hastings, 457; in Paris, 243 for Accrington, 1, 290, 313, 337 at the Alhambra, 7 for Cardiff, 75, 98, 508, 530, 570, 578, 601 in Carlow, 60, 78, 505 in Carlsbad, 25 Central Station Management, 516 in Chatham, 145, 265, 315 in Chelsea, 28, 49, 74, 289 311 for Chislehurst, 52, 268, 409, 460 for Christiania, 121, 436, 529 for the City Markets, 506 for Clerkenwell, 26 in Colchester School of Art, 434 in Cologne, 145, 265 in the Colonies, 99 and the Commissioners of Sewers, 2, 5, 26, 50, 51, 76, 290, 338, 482, 508, 529, 555 at the Continental Gallery, 38 for Cork Asylum, 457 for Cork, 50, 122, 145, 194 Cost of, 14, 317, 320, 577 for Coventry, 313 for Croydon, 579 for Crystal Palace District, 169, 195, 290, 293, 863, 380, 400, 529, 558, 582 in Cuba, 340 for Cycles, 289 in Daily Chronicle Offices, 337 for Dalton, 121, 241 in Darmstadt, 58 for Dartmouth, 579 for Dentists, 121 Deptford Station, 27, 194, 506 Deputations of Local Authorities, 387 |