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INDEX TO VOLUME III. 



STEAM-JACKET. 



method, 362) ; waste heat of, utili- 

 zation of, for heating hot-houses, 

 271, 364. 



Steam-jacket for working cylinder 

 95. 



Steam navigation, economy of fuel 

 in, progress of, 81 ; introduced by 

 Fletcher and Bell, 232. 



Steam or air, in heat engines, 106. 



Steam shipping, extended use of, 

 due to Suez Canal, 57. 



Steam, duplicate telegraphy reintro- 

 duced by, 168. 



Steel (application of, 144 ; by Ad- 

 miralty for ship-building, 344 ; 

 for engineering purposes on con- 

 tinent and United States, 145 ; 

 former and present, 160 ; for loco- 

 motive engines, rails, and tyres. 

 145 ; for war purposes, 225) ; 

 committee, British Association and 

 Board of Trade on, members of. 

 Hawkshaw, Sir J., Barlow, W. H.. 

 and Yolland, Col., 145 ; cooling 

 of, under pressure, 350 ; (defini- 

 tions of, 147 ; as compounds of 

 iron that have been fused and are 

 malleable, 149 ; distinctions too 

 varied in, 148 ; engineers and 

 manufacturers, 149 ; illustrations 

 of, 148 ; ingot iron, Flusseisen, f er 

 fondu, 148 ; ingot steel, Fluss- 

 stahl, acier fondu, 148 ; weld 

 steel, Schweiss-stahl, acier soude, 

 148 ; by International committee, 

 comprising Akermann, Bell, I. L., 

 Egleston, T., Griiner, Holley, A. 

 L., and Wedding, H., 148); 

 various, references to, by Gautier, 

 Greiner, Griiner, Holley, Jordan. 

 Karsten, Percy, J., Tunner, Wed- 

 ding, Whitworth, Sir J., 148 ; 

 designs requisite for develop- 

 ment of peculiar qualities of, 

 62 ; ductility and hardness of, 

 60 ; experiments on mechanical 

 and other properties of, by a com- 



STONEY, PROF. 



mittee of civil engineers, 61, 145 ; 

 experiments, exhaustive, necessity 

 of, 61 ; hardening of, carbide of 

 iron formed in, 350; investigations, 

 recent, on. by Abel, F., 350 ; and 

 iron, comparison of, 60 ; (melting 

 furnace, regenerative, accumula- 

 tion of heat in, 99 ; actual fuel 

 consumption per ton of, 99 ; col- 

 lateral advantages of, 99 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 98, 99 ; limit of tempera- 

 ture of, 99 ; regenerators in, use 

 of, 99 ; reversing valves for, 99) ; 

 (melting in pots, fuel per ton, 98 ; 

 proportion of fuel utilized in, 

 24(!) ; processes, modification of, 

 160 ; production and application, 

 discussion regarding, 228 ; tensile, 

 strength of, on what dependent, 

 860. 



Steinheil, telegraph inventor, refer- 

 ence to, 74. 



Stellar gaseous matter probably dis- 

 sociated by solar radiation, 306. 



Stellar space empty, La Place's as- 

 sumption, 303. 



Stellar space, rarefied gases in, 299 ; 

 hypothesis of, 356, 358 ; planetary 

 attraction of, 299, 302 ; spectrum 

 analysis, evidence of, 301. 



Stephan, Dr., underground line wire 

 system, re-introduced by, 171. 



Stephenson, G., coal, definition of, as 

 bottled-up rays of the sun, 294 ; 

 locomotive, introduced by, 112, 

 232. 



Stevenson, D., dioptric lights, address 

 on, reference to, 113. 



Stirling's economiser discussed before 

 Institution of Civil Engineers in 

 1845, 104 ; paradox engine, 104 ; 

 regenerative steam engine, 190 



Stokes, G. G., energy, researches in, 

 reference to, 325 ; hypothesis of 

 conservation of sun's heat, 296. 



Stoney, Prof., on oxygen in outer 

 solar atmosphere. 312. 



