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in Serajevo, 505

for Sevenoaks, 100, 338

for Sheffield, 266, 410, 437, 529

in Sheffield School, 554

for Sheerness Barracks, 313

at Sherborne, 363

of Ships, 33, 73, 121, 443, 459

and Ships' Compasses, 73
on Ships, Fittings for, 246

and Ships' Signals, 410

of Ships, by Sutherland, 390, 414

on Ships, Wiring Systems, 127

for Shoreditch, 122, 217

for Shrewsbury, 218
for Singapore, 553
on Snowdon, 2

for Sofia, 169, 241

in South Africa, 553

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Electric Lighting (continued):

for Sydenham, 169, 195, 290, 293, 363, 386, 400, 529
558, 582

in Taunton, 121, 553
for Teignmouth, 266
and the Telephone, 51

Tenders, High and Low, 588, 600

of ss. Thermopylæ, 459

for Tiverton, 265, 481, 506, 523

in Torquay, 242, 337, 340

Tower System in Detroit, 241

of Trains, 132, 219, 247, 363, 386, 433, 481, 578

for Trowbridge, 337, 505

in Messrs. Tuckers' Mills, Cardiff, 289

for Ulverston, 147, 363, 556

in Vitry Wine-Cellars, 148

Votes of Gas Shareholders and, 541

for Warrington, 529

for Waterford, 121, 242, 602

in Waterloo Grain Houses, Liverpool, 269

for Wath, 145

in Weights and Measures Offices, 313

in Westminster, 289, 293

at Weston-super-Mare, 603

for Whitby, 1

for Whitechapel, 193, 433

for Whitehaven, 243

in Wickwar, 507

of Wilson and McFarlane's Mill, Drumcairn, 410

at Winslow, 1

Without Current, 409

Woodward and Evans's Patents for the Division

of, 496

for Worcester, 411, 434, 436, 506, 577

at Wynward Park, 195

for Yarmouth, 171, 191, 385

for York, 146

in York Law Courts, 77

for York Municipal Buildings, 25

Electric Traction, Cost of, 291

Electric Traction in France, 554

Electric Traction (see also RAILWAYS and TRAMWAYS)

Electric Traction and the Tramways Institute, 2

Electric Tramcar Syndicate, 563

Electric Waves, Length of, 482

Electrical Accessories Company, 195

Electrical Energy, Distribution of, W. C. Rech-

niewski, 103, 370, 534

Electrical Energy, Liquid for Storing up, 124

Electrical Engineers' Institute, American, Million-

aires in, 122

Electrical Engineers, Institution of:

Conversazione, 28

Council List, 531

Dinner, 493

Presentation of Cooke's Letters by Mr. Latimer
Clark, 486

Sankey and Andersen, Standard Volt and Ampere
Meter, 466, 489, 519, 548

and Mr. Tesla's Visit to England, 578

Electrical Engineering Profession, The, 349, 351, 373
Electrical Engineering, School of, 291

Electrical Engineers at Play, 349

Electrical Laboratory for Belgium, 25

Electrical Machire, New, 339

Electrical Standards, B. A. and Board of Trade
Committees' Report. 262

Electrical Standards, Board of Trade Committee, 146
Electrical Words, Some, 270

Electricitats Maatschapij, Works Burnt Down, 577

Electricity, Arithmetic of, T. O'Conor Sloane, 302

Electricity at the Chicago Exhibition, 605

Electricity, Cost of, in Various Towns, 385

Electricity, Mathematical Theory of, W. T. A.
Emtage, 302

Electricity, New Journal, 387

Electricity, Recent Developments of, K. L. Murray,

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Exhibition, United Services, 602

Exhibition, Permanent, in Paris, 99

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Ferranti's Catalogue, 436
Terranti's Mains, 438, 457

Feraris and Tesla, A Question of Priority, 246, 292
Field, Cyrus, Illness of, 529

Financial Advice Wanted, 563

Finchley, Report on Electric Lighting, 434, 453

Fire Alarms in London, 411

Fire Detector, 217

Fittings, Electric, 218, 458, 556, 579, 603
Fluorine, 458

Fog Prevention, 554

Fog Signals, Electric, 241

Follow Afar, 468

Forbes, Recent Motor Progress, 258

Fortschritte der Elektrotechnik, 97

Foucault Currents, Prevention of, 410

Fowler and Co.'s Portable Engine, 10

Fowler, S. B., Construction and Maintenance of
Underground Circuits, 273
Fowler-Waring Cables, 436

Fowler-Waring Cables Company, Meetings, etc., 598,
616

Fowler-Waring Company's Jointing Tools, 491
Frager Meter, The, 291

Frankfort Congress, 124, 283

Frankfort Exhibition, 3, 123, 206, 218, 229, 245, 327,
361, 385, 387, 399, 577

Frankfort and Offenbach, Continuous-Current Trans-
mission between, 337

Frankfort Power Transmission Experiments, 123,
181, 195, 198 205, 267, 285, 294, 350, 363, 399, 476
French Navy, Dinner to, at Portsmouth, 217
Fuse Nomenclature, 169

Fuses, Invention of, 196

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Gas Engine Stations in Leicester, 459

Gas Engine, The Trent, 425

Gas Explosion at Blackburn, 530

Gas-Leak Detector, A, 459

Gas Shareholders' Votes and Electric Lighting, 541

Gas, Water, etc., Directory, 218

Gatti's Station, Injunction against applied for, 289
Gauzante's Miner's Lamp, 603

Geikie, Sir A., Elected President, British Associa-
tion, 193

General Electric Traction Co.'s Exhibits at the Naval
Exhibition, 10; Overhead Tramways, 485; Secre-
taryship of, 193; Meetings, etc., 615
Geneva Power Installation, 389

German Continental Gas Company, Meetings, etc.,
143

German Municipalities and Electric Lighting, 229
Germany and England, New Cable Between, 146, 316
Giles, B. S., Magnetism, 342

Glasgow Athenæum Lighting, A. Jamieson, 18, 42
Glasgow Corporation, Deputation to Visit Frankfort,
290, 387

Glasgow Exhibition, 265, 340

Glasgow Fire Brigade and the Telephone, 388

Glasgow Lighting, 49, 169, 255, 265, 339, 364, 385,
387, 409, 529, 553, 575, 579

Glasgow, Police Signals in, 529

Glasgow Station, Appointment of Engineer, 49, 255,

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Heyl's Accumulator, 483

Hibbert, W., A Permanent Magnetic Field, 596
High-Pressure Continuous-Current System, 195
High-Tension Currents, C. E. L. Brown, 296

Hobbs, W. R. P., Arithmetic of Electrical Measure-
ments, 326

Holden and Boulanger Electric Chronograph, 411
Holt, M. B., Aspen Mining Plant, 392

8 Hooker, G. S., Bath Central Station, 13
Horse-power, Electrical, Cost of in Various Towns,

385

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India, Maintenance of Telegraph Lines in, 601
Indian Rivers, Telegraphing Across, 101

India Rubber Company's Underground Mains, 54
Induction Experiments in the City, 482
Influence Machines for Lighting Work, 386
Installations, List of, 504

Insulated Conductors, Specification of, W. H.
Preece, 566, 584

Insulating Material, New, 194, 411

Insurance Rules and Wiring, Report of N.E.L.A.,
309

Interior Conduits for Wires, 122

International Congress at Frankfort, 124

Ireland Telephone Company, Meetings, etc., 119
Iron and Steel, Economics of, H. J. Skelton, 100
Isle of Man Exhibition, 433

J.

Jaite's Printing Telegraph, 362

Jamieson, A., Brown's Rotary Engine, 68

Jamieson, A., Glasgow Athenæum Lighting, 18, 42
Jarman's Storage Car, 39, 171, 314, 434, 531
Jensen's Electric Bells, 363

Jointing Tools, Fowler-Waring Company's, 491
Journal of Gas Lighting, The, 27
Journals, New, 387, 457, 505
Junior Engineering Society, 458, 485

K.

Kapp, G., Lectures on Alternate Currents, 337

Kapp, G., Power Transmission, 40, 64, 86, 115, 134,
163, 241 (Errata)

Kapp's Book on the Transmission of Power, German
Translation of, 409

Kennelly, A. E. Magnetic Reluctance, 470, 518, 544
Keys' Company's Galvanometer, 354
Khotinsky's Accumulators, 97

Khotinsky's Lamps, 433

Kimberley Exhibition, 385, 409, 602
Kinetograph, The, 26

Kites and Atmospheric Electricity, 315
Koechlin's Meter, 385
Kousmine's Battery, 197

Lahmeyer's Dynamos, 107

L.

Laing, Wharton, and Down, Fire at their Works,
483, 557

Lampposts, 121

Lampposts for the City, 6

Lampposts, Disappearing, 195

Lamps, Efficiency of Various, 77

Lauffen-Frankfort Transmission System, 123, 181,
195, 198, 205, 267, 285, 294, 350, 363, 399, 476
Launches, Electric 1, 11, 194, 200, 315, 338, 386, 389,
529, 555

Leading Articles:

Accumulators, Charging them by Alternating
Currents, 469

Accumulators, Using Up, 608
American Influence, 468

Armstrong, Prof., and the Electricians, 565
Birmingham Tramways, 133
British Association, 180, 204, 253

British Association (Cardiff) Meeting, 156
Brush Company, The, 325
Cambridge Lighting, 36
Canterbury, 445

Carlow Lighting, 60, 84

Central Station Management, 516
City and South London Railway, 156
Crystal Palace Exhibition, 397, 468, 540
Current" From the Main," 609
Electric Light in Buses, 324
Electric Lighting, Growth of, 228
Electric Lighting, Is it a Failure? 252
Electric Tramways, 444
Electrical Engineers at Play, 349
Electricity, What is it? 421

Electro-Harmonic Society, 349
Festiniog, 325

Follow Afar, 468

Frankfort Experiments, 205
Goodwill, 108

Hard to Please (Dover Lighting), 109
Helmholtz's Birthday, 253

Leeds Tramway, 420

Leading Articles (continued):

Lightning and Conductors, The Earth Question, 157
Load Factor, The, 277

London County Council Finance, 589

London County Council and St. Pancras, 493
London Electric Corporation, 421

Municipal Engineers and Electric Lighting, 12
Okonite, 372, 396

Overhead Wires Memorial, 564

Postmaster-General's Report, 372

Prevention Better than Cure (Train Lighting), 132
Profession, The, 349

Provisional Orders, 61

Rival Systems, 517

Savory v. London Electric, 609

Sims-Edison Torpedo Company, 348

Sturgeon, Wm., 300

Submarine Cables in War-time, 398

Sub-Stations, 84

Telegraphs and Gales, 469

Telephone Patents, 37

Telephony in London, 276, 301

Tenders, High and Low, 588

Tramways, Electricity and, Gordon s System, 36
Underground Electric Railways in New York, 13
Underground Railway, Another (Waterloo), 422
Vested Interests (Telephones and Tramways), 13
Wonderful, Lighting Picture Galleries, 301
Woodhouse and Rawson, 492

Work in the Colonies, 565

Legal:

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Young v. American Telephone Company, 24

Leeds Tramway, 243, 291, 313, 362, 387, 420, 423, 444,
446, 461, 483, 557

Leicester Co-operative Boot Factory, 458

Leonard, H. W., Automatic Moter, 560, 578

Letters, Missing, 217

Liege University, 26, 173

Lifeboats and Coast Communication, 435

Lifeboat, Edison and Sims Electric, 123

Lift, McLaren's Hydro-Electric, 387

Lighthouses, Electric Lighting in, 75, 171, 436

Lighting Apparatus, Efficiency of Various, 77
Lighting, Public, in Eastern Europe, 299

Lightning, Accidents from, 25, 27, 73, 315

Lightning Conductors for Bombay, 289; Earth for,

S. F. Walker, 152, 157; New Book on, 220; Wire
Fences as, 386; Points of, 412
Lightning as an Explosive, 315
Lightning, New Journal, 412

Light, Polarised, Electromagnetic Theory of the
Plane of, A. Gray, 261

Light, Proposed New Standard of, 553
Lignite, 217

Lineff's Electric Tramway, 38, 482
Liquid Resistances, J. Swinburne, 212
Lisbon Gas Companies, 529

Literature:

Atkinson, P., Dynamic Electricity and Magnetism,
302

Badt, F. B., Electric Transmission Hand-book, 146
Bax, Capt. E. I., Popular Electric Lighting, 315, 586
Cumming, L., Electricity Treated Experimentally,

541

Emtage, W. T. A., Mathematical Theory of Elec-
tricity, 302

Gordon, Mrs J. E. H., Decorative Electricity, 597
Hobbs, W. R. P., Arithmetic of Electrical Measure-
ments, 326

Major, F., Spacial and Atomic Energy-Heat, 399
Maycock, W. P., First Book of Electricity, 541
Poole, J., Telephone Hand-book, 450

Preece and Sivewright, Telegraphy, 326
Russell, S. A., Electric Light Cables, 458
Skelton, H. J., Economics of Iron and Steel, 100
Sloane, T. O'Conor, Arithmetic of Electricity, 302
Verity, J. B., Electricity Up to Date, 586
Webb, H. L., Testing Cables, 423

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London County Council (continued):

Main-Laying Work Sanctioned, 28, 73, 76, 100, 314,

358, 406, 455, 484, 529, 531

and Meter Testing, 460, 529, 550

Overhead Wire By-laws, 551

and St. Pancras Loan, 493, 498, 550, 589

and Street Boxes, 75

Subway Inspectorship, 488

London Electric Supply Company and Mr. Ferranti,
194

London Electric Supply Corporation and Higgins,
380

London Electric Supply Corporation's Mains, 438
London Electric Supply Co.'s System, Progress of, 27,
317, 421, 506

London-Paris Telephone, 211, 217, 237, 505
London and Vienna, Direct Telegraph Line, 49
Lucerne, Compressed Air v. Electricity at, 317
Lyons, Power Transmission at, 98

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Mare's Meter, 318

Mashonaland, Telegraphs in, 337

Massey, W. H., and Cardiff Lighting, 98

Massey, W. H., and Electric Lighting, 196, 252

Mauritius Cable, 313, 358

Maycock, W. P., First Book of Electricity, 541

Mechanical Engineers, Electricity for, 122

Mechanics' Almanack, 601

Medical Treatment, Electrical, 553

Mercadier's Small Telephones, 98

Metals, Resistance of, Chatelier's Experiments, 269

Meteorological Phenomenon, 314

Meteorological Society, Royal, 491

Meters, Electric:

the "Acme," 3

Bardon's, 321

Frager's, 291

Grassot's, 122

Koechlin's, 385

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Mining, Electric, in the Aspen Mine, M. B. Holt, 392

Mining, Electric, in Belgium, 316

Mining, Electric, in Durham, 245

Mining, Electric, in S. Africa, 265

Mining and General Lamp Company, 193, 579

Mining Plant, Electric, 74, 98, 222, 241, 314, 410, 481
Mix and Genest's Automatic Call-Box, 106; Door
Contacts and Telephone Apparatus, 513

Monaco, Prince of, His Yacht, 121
Mond, R. L., Electrolytic Problems, 259

Mont Blanc, Proposed Observatory on, 98, 194, 433
Montevidean Telegraph Company, Meetings, etc.,
168

Montevideo Telephone Company, Meetings, 431, 455
Montreal Exhibition, 293

Morecambe Electric Light Company, Meetings, etc.,

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Muirhead v. Debenture Guarantee Company, 434
Municipal Engineers and Electric Lighting, Preece,
12

Munro's Electrical Manufacturing Company, 364
Murray, K. L., Recent Developments of Electricity,

89

Museums, Typological, General Pitt-Rivers, 602
Music for Hospitals, 99

Mutual Telephone Company, 50, 457

N.

National Electric Light Association, Wiring and
Insurance Rules, 309

National Telephone Company, Conversazione in
Glasgow, 577; Meetings, etc., 23, 46; their
Patents, 1; their Wire Bill, 530

Naval Exhibition, Description of Exhibits, 10
Needle-Points, Electrification of, A. P. Chattock,
201, 249

Nelson Lighting Specification, 595

New Cross Technical Institute, 50, 76
New South Wales Electrical Club, 405

New York Associated Press and the Western Union
Company, 386

New York, Underground Railways for, 13, 386
New Zealand, How Business is Lost in, 388
Niagara Falls, Utilisation of, 169

Niblett, J. T., Appointed to Mining and General
Lamp Company, 193; his Book on Secondary
Batteries, 532; Solid Accumulator, 80
Nomenclature, 100

North London Order Revoked, 73
North London Tramways, 74
Norwich Electricity Company, 409

Nottingham Lighting, 530, 532, 574; Tramways, 551

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Oil Engines, W. Robinson, 322

Oil Insulation, Brooks's System, 482

Olsson, M. C., Bath Station, 37

Okonite Company, 372, 381, 396
Omnibus, Electric, 49, 563, 580, 589

Omnibus Inspectors, Buttonhole Lamps for, 290
Omnibus Lighting, 313, 324, 337
Ore, Electrolytic Extraction of, 291

Oriental Telephone Company, Meetings, etc., 118
Osbo-Premier Primary Battery, 139
Owens College, 338

Oxford Electric Company, Meetings, 597
Oxygen and Magnetism, 581

Ozone, Action of, 341

P.

Palermo Exhibition, 73, 337, 409, 481

Parcel Exchange System, A. R. Bennett, 224

Paris Exhibition, 25

Paris Permanent Exhibition, 99

Paris Underground Maius, E. Dieudonne, 157, 175,

346, 375, 510, 590

Patent Agents' Institute, 505

Patent Office, The, 171

Patents List, see each Issue

Pelton Waterwheel in New Zealand, 388
Peninsula, The, News from, 403

Personal Notices, 1, 49, 97, 145, 193, 217, 328, 363, 457,
480, 529, 577, 578

Phonopore, The, 26, 97

Phosphorescence of Minerals, 241

Photography and Electricity, The Kinetograph, 26

Physical Society's Meetings:

Ayrton and Mather, Non-Inductive Resistances, 45
Ayrton, Rotatory Currents, 596

Boys, Pocket Electrometers, 46
Carus-Wilson, Flexure of Beams, 45
Hibbert, a Permanent Magnetic Field, 596
Lodge's Leyden Jar Experiments (Erratum), 46

Young, on Van der Waals's Generalisations as to

Temperatures, Pressures, etc., 458

Picture Gallery Lighting, 301

Pilots and the Electric Light, 553

Pilsen Electric Co.'s Works, 75
Pinnaces, Electric, 194

Plants, Growth of, and Electricity, 196
Platinum, A Substitute for, 194, 218

Ploughs Driven by Motors, 145
Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, 506

Points, Electrification of, A. P. Chattock, 201, 249

Police Signals in Glasgow, 529

Poole, J., Telephone Hand-book, 450

Poona Exhibition, 314

Polytechnic Institution, Excursion to Chicago, 454
Polytechnic for North London, 361

Porri's Emergency Brakes, 506

Portable Lamps, 578

Portsmouth Lighting, Mr. Shoolbred's Report on, 251
Postal Telegraphs, Engineering Branch of, 121
Postmaster-Generalship, 196, 290

Postmaster-General's Report, 373, 375

Power Generation and Distribution, Lectures on, 28

Power Transmission.

at Abercanaid Colliery, 98

Alternate Current in Vienna, 27
on the Andes Railway, 99
Badt's Hand-book, 146

in France, 532

at Fribourg, 49

at Geneva, 389

at Inverness, 388

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Preece, W. H., Cost of Electric Lighting, 14; London
and Paris Telephone, 211, 237; Report on Bristol
Lighting, 533; Specincation of Insulated Con-
ductors, 566, 584

Preece and Sivewright, Telegraphy, 326
Priestman's Oil Engines, 322, 364

Printing, Electric, 457, 53

Printing Telegraph, Jaite's, 362
Private Bills, Deposit of, 602

Prizes Offered by Amiens Industrial Society, 244

Profession, The (Electrical Engineering), 349, 351,
373

Provisional Order for North London Revoked, 73

Provisional Orders Applied for, 61, 183, 530

Provisional Orders, Cost of, 194, 409

Public Lighting in Eastern Europe, 299
Puliman's Electric Car, 457

Pump for Garden Work, Electric, 242
Pumps, Electric, 145, 337

R.

Races in America, Telegraphing, 483

Raikes, Hon. H. C., Death of, 196

Railway Accidents and Electric Lighting, 132

Railway Surfacemen, Protector for, 341

Railways, Electric (see also ELECTRIC TRAC-

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December 25, 1891.

sistance of Electrolytes, Ewing and MacGregor's
Method of Measuring, 150, 174

sistance of Metals, Chatelier's Experiments, 269
sistance, Woodhouse and Rawson's Circular, 546
besistances, Non-Inductive, Ayrton and Mather, 45
eymond, Du Bois, Medal Awarded to, 97
hine Falls, Utilisation of, 145, 314

ival Systems, 517

oberts, E. P., Choosing a Dynamo, 423, 451

obertson, G. H., Secondary Batteries, 536, 565, 567
obinson, H., Electric Lighting by Municipal
Authorities, 16

obinson, W., Oil Engines, 322

ossiter, A. E., Appointed Meter Inspector to
London County Council, 435

otary-Current Dynamo, Original, 102, 246

Cotary Current, its Effect on Lamps, 434
Cotary-Current Motor, 385, 394, 554, 581
Cotary Engine, Brown's, 68

totatory Currents, W. E. Ayrton, 596

toyal Agricultural Show, Engines at, 8

Royal Institution, 485

Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 435, 476

Royal Society, The, 459, 530

Russell, S. A., Electric Light Cables, 458
Ruston, Proctor, and Co.'s Fixed Engine, 10

Ryan, H. J., Influence of Air Gap and Pole Shape
on Dynamos, 366

S.

St. James's Electric Lighting Company, Meetings,
etc., 24, 599; Receipts for Current Sold 47, 384;
and the Sewers, 385; New Central Station, 388
St. Louis Lighting, J. I. Ayer, 352, 377, 400
St. Pancras Exhibition, 75, 205, 508

St. Pancras Lighting, 76, 97, 303, 484, 493, 498, 581, 550,
589

St. Pancras Mains, 462, 483

St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway, 74

St. Petersburg Exhibition, 458

Sales of Plant, 1, 145, 217, 361

Sanitation and the Electric Light, 75

Sankey and Andersen, Standard Volt and Ampere

Meter, 466, 489, 519, 548
Saunderson's Carbons, 73

Savory v. London Electric Supply Corporation, 609,
613

Saw-mending by Electricity, 170

Schuckert's Transformer, 74

Sciatica, Electric Cure for, 169

Science Missionaries, S. F. Walker, 254

Science Siftings, 422

"Scot" Mail Steamer, Lighting of, 33

Scott and Co.'s Shiplighting Plant, 443

Scottish Society of Arts, Royal, 435, 476

#Scott and Mountain's Installations, 399

Scott-Sisling Method of Charging Accumulators, 270

Scott's Works (Ronald), Athletic Sports and Cricket,
7, 51, 97

Scott v. Uniacke, 477

Search-lights in War, 170

Sea-water Battery, 290

Sellon, P., Electric Lighting in London, 81

Sherman, J. C., appointed Lighting Inspector,
Liverpool, 314

Shettle, R. C., Terrestrial Magnetism, 463; Solar

Stress the Cause of Heat, 534, 560

Ship Signals and Electric Lights, 410

Shipwrecks and Search-lights, 419

Shiplighting, 33, 73, 121, 390, 414, 443, 459

Shiplighting, Wiring Systems, 127

Shippey Bros., Limited, 552, 563, 589

Ships' Compasses and Concentric Wiring, 73, 146

Ships, Disinfecting, 556; Pendant Fittings for, 246

Shock from an Electric Light Wire, 371

Short's Railway Dynamo, 277; Motor, 304

Sidewalk, A Moving, 556

Siemens's Rotary-Current Motor, 385

Silcock, E. J., Creosoting Timber, 55, 85

Silvertown Underground Mains, 54

Sims-Edison Electric Lifeboats, 123

Sims-Edison Torpedo, 126, 146, 313, 348, 578

Skelton, H. J. Economics of Iron and Steel, 100
Slate Quarrying, Electric Drills for, 481

Sloane, T. O'Conor, Arithmetic of Electricity, 302

Smithfield Show, The, 556

Smith, Willoughby, Obituary Notice of, 85

Smoke Prevention, 554

Snell, A. T., Electrical Work in Mines, 161, 484
Snell, A. T., Marriage of, 2

Sofia, Tenders for, 601

Solar Stress the Cause of Heat, R. C. Shettle, 534, 560
South America, Electrical Companies in, 409
South American Telegraphs, 505

Southampton Pier, Tenders for Fittings, 434

South Staffs. Tramways, 52, 67, 77, 292, 338, 364, 555
South Wales Institute of Engineers, 484
Spain, Electrical Affairs in, 403

Specification of Insulated Conductors, W. H. Preece,
566, 584

Specification for Nelson Lighting, 595

Speed Counter, Automatic, 266

Sprague, F. J., His Challenge, 74

Sprague, J. T., Safe Current Limit of Conductors,
486

Stafford County Asylum, 197

Standards, B.A. and Board of Trade Committees'
Report on, 262

Staple-Driver, Woodhouse and Rawson's, 99, 419
Static Machine, New, 339

Steam-loop, The, 337, 507

Steam v. Electricity on Railways, 26
Steam Separators, Efficiency of, 1

Stone, Dr. W. H., Death of, 49

Storage of Electric Energy, "Electroline " for, 124
rm Foretelling by Telephone, 146
eet Boxes for Transformers, 75

irgeon, William, 300

.b-Stations, 84

ibmarine Cables in War Time, 398
affield, Lord, Illness of, 529, 577
uicide, Attempted, 577

alphuric Acid, A New Chemical From, 27
Sunbeam Lamps, 327

Surfacemen, Railway, A Protector for, 341
- Shiplighting, 390, 414
Sutherland,

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in Belgium, 385, 433

Bell's Patents, 481

in Bournemouth, 316, 363, 436

at Brodick, Scotland, 1

between Brussels and Amsterdam, 385

Cables in the City, 74

Caledonian Company and the Post Office, 577

Call-box, Mix and Genest's Automatic, 106

in Cardiff, 49

Chess Match by, 578

for Coastguards, 219, 554, 578
Describing a Boat Race by, 124
Douglas's Loud-speaking, 412

at Dover and Deal, 314

at Dunoon, 577

and the Electric Lighting Acts, 51

and Electric Tramways, 13, 26

for Foretelling Storms, 146
Free, 218

in Glasgow, 363

and Glasgow Fire Brigade, 388

and the Government, 430, 506

for Gravesend, 337, 433

Hand-book of, J. Poole, 450

in Holland, 97

in Honolulu, 26

Ireland Company, Meetings, etc,, 119
in Kent, 242

between Lincoln and Liverpool, 457
between Lincoln and Sheffield, 458
in London (Leading Article), 276, 301
between London and Manchester, 49
in Manchester, 50, 457
Mercadier's Small, 98

Mix and Genest's Apparatus, 513
Music for Hospitals by, 99

National Company, 601

Opera by, 289, 338, 554, 578

in Paris, 361

between Paris and London, 211, 217, 237, 505
Patents, Expiration of, 1, 37, 75

at Plymouth, 433

in Scotland, New Lines, 2, 97, 290

in Stockholm, 2

Teaching Languages by, 363

v. Telegraph in New York, 386

Times Correspondence, 230, 276, 301, 305, 430
Transmitter Patents, A. R. Bennett, 30, 75
Transmitters, Carbon for, 75

Transmitters, Examples of Various, 34

United River Plate Company, Meetings, etc., 120
between Vienna and Trieste, 553

in the West of England, 148, 291, 316, 436
in Western Australia, 313

Wire Struck by Lightning, 193

Tenders, High and Low, 588, 600

Terrestrial Magnetism, R. C. Shettle, 463
Terminals, Battery, How to Avoid Corrosion, 122
Tesla and Ferraris, a Question of Priority, 246, 292
Tesla, N., Alternate Currents for Lighting, 63, 81,
110, 128, 159, 177; his Visit to England, 678
Theatre Lighting, 409

Theatres, Suggestions for Safety of, 77
Theatrophone, The, 554, 578
Thermopile, Gulcher's, 341

Thomson, Sir W., His Law on Economy of Conductor
Criticised, 243; his Portrait at Glasgow, 507
Thomson-Houston Electric Locomotive, 581
Threlfall, Prof., Sydney Lighting, 565, 572
Thunderstorms, W. Marriott, 603

Times, The, on Storage Cells, 485
Timmís, J. A., Train Lighting, 247
Tinpot Electricity, 604

Tiverton Lighting, 265, 481, 506, 523

Torpedo, The Sims-Edison, 126, 146, 313, 348, 578

Torpedo Work, 74

Tower Lighting, 241

New Series.

Town Councils, Votes of Gas Shareholders at, 541
Townley's Electric Bell and Alarm, 35, 61, 110, 133
Train Lighting, 132, 219, 247, 363, 386, 433, 481, 578
Tramcar Tickets, 3

Tramways and Tramcars, Electric (see also
RAILWAYS):

in America, 268

in America, Report by F. Brown, 67, 77
for Birkenhead, 338

in Birmingham, 53, 133, 140, 147, 149, 386

at Blackpool, 289, 363, 502, 505, 529

in Boston, U.S., 193, 291

in Brooklyn, 578

in Budapest, 505, 602

and Cable Cars, 147

for Christiania, 73

for Croydon, 314, 434, 531

in Edinburgh, 121, 338, 435

Electric Tramcar Syndicate, 563

in France, 218

for Galatz, 337, 481

Gas-Engine Storage Cars, 193

General Traction Company's Work, 485
for Glasgow, 268, 289, 378, 410, 484, 517
Gordon and Co.'s Storage Car, 386

Gordon's System, 29, 36, 39, 413

at the Hague, 413

at Handsworth, 149

for Hawaii, 314

for India, 4

Jarman's Storage Car, 39, 171, 314, 434, 331

for Lancaster, 601

Leading Article on, 444

at Leeds, 243, 291, 313, 362, 387, 420, 423, 444, 446,

461, 483, 557

Lineff's System, 38, 482

for Madrid, 265

in Naples, 529

for North London, 74

for Nottingham, 554

Overhead and Storage, 485

in Paris, 482

for Perth, 482

Porri's Emergency Brake for, 506

at Portrush, Accident, 265

Primary Batteries for, 27

Pullman's, 457

Relative Economy of Compared with Horse and

Cable Traction, 473

Report of Pittsburg Convention, 330

Rival Systems, 517

Schuckert's Closed-Conduit System, 245

on Southend Pier, 243, 361, 505

at Stockholm and Kiew, 49

Storage, in America, 170

Storage, at Dubuque, 1
Storage, at Lyons, 124

Storage, Why not Successful, 2

in Tasmania, 577

and Telephones, 13, 26

Tickets for, New Departure, 3

for Torquay, 433

Trolley Rods for, 267

in Vienna, 27

at Walsall, 52, 67, 77, 292, 338, 364, 555

for Wigan, 428

Wynne, F., and Glasgow,

at Yarmouth, 601

517

Tramways Institute and Electric Traction, 2, 38

Transformer, A Medical, 147

Transformer, Electro-Chemical, 434

Transformer, Schuckert's, 74

Transformer Street Boxes, 75

Transformer Sub-Stations, 84

Trent Gas Engine, 425
Tricycles, Electric, 49
Trinidad-Tobago Cable, 97
Trolley Rods for Tramcars, 267
Tuning-fork, Electric, 362

Tunnel Boring on the Andes Railway, 99
Typesetter, A Telegraphic, 530
Typewriter and Telegraph, 604

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New Series.

Walker, S. F., Earth for Lightning Conductors, 152,
157

Walker, S. F., Science Missionaries, 254

Walking Stick, Electric, 194

Warrington Tramways, 529

Watches, Demagnetisation of, 25

Water Level Indicator, Mix and Genest's, 515

Waterloo and City, Proposed Underground Railway,
422

Water Motor, The Demon, 465

Water Power, Utilisation of, 25, 49, 52, 121, 145, 147,
169, 193, 217, 265, 292, 314, 337, 388, 389, 410, 460,
480, 529, 530, 532, 577, 579

Water, Purification of, by Electricity, 546
Watt's Cathode Frames, 580

Watt's Electrolytic Zine Process, 427, 474, 508

Waves, Electric, Length of, 482

Webb, H. L., Testing Cables, 423

Weighing Machines, Automatic, 481
Welding, Electric, 98, 219, 220, 553

Welding, Electric, New Company, 196

Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company, Meet-
ings, 455, 478

Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company's New
Cables, 121

Western Counties Telephone Company, 148

Western Union Telegraph Company and the
Associated Press, 386

West India and Panama Telegraph Company, Meet-
ings, etc., 479, 502

Westinghouse Governor, The, 2

Westminster Company's Central Stations, 293
Weymersch's Battery, 3, 194, 223, 253, 480

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