26_e_. Manhattan Insurance Co.’s Building in course of 79 erection
26_f_. Manhattan Insurance Co.’s Building nearly completed 80
26_g_. Original Design for the Great Wheel 82
33. Pair of Whitworth’s Planes or Surface Plates 94
48. Signal Box on North London Railway 109
50. Gower Street Station, Metropolitan Railway 115
51. Map of the Route of Pacific Railway 117
56. First Steam Railroad Train in America 123
59. Casting Cylinder of a Marine Steam Engine 131
61. Section of _Great Eastern_ Amidships 134
62. The _Great Eastern_ in course of construction 135
63. The _Great Eastern_ ready for launching 136
68_a_. A Whaleback Steamer, No. 85, built at West 146 Superior, Wisconsin
69. H.M.S. _Devastation_ in Queenstown Harbour 149
72. Section, Elevation and Plan of Turret of H.M.S. 154 _Captain_
78_a_. The _Victoria_ leaving Newcastle-on-Tyne 166
81. Diagram for Trajectory of a Projectile 176
82. Muzzle-loading Musket and Rifles (obsolete 179 patterns)
85. The Chassepot Rifle—Section of the Breech 183
86. Section of the Martini-Henry Lock 185
89. The Magazine and Breech of the Mannlicher Rifle 189
92. 600–pounder Muzzle-loading Armstrong Gun 194
95. Millwall Shield after being battered with Heavy 200 Shot—Front View
97. Comparative Sizes of 35 and 81–ton Guns 201
98. Diagram of Velocities and Pressures 205
99. Elswick 4·7–in. Q. F. Gun on Pivot Mounting 207
100. The Moncrieff Gun raised and ready for firing 209
101. Moncrieff Gun lowered for loading 209
102. 68–ton Gun on Elswick Hydro-Pneumatic Mounting 211
104. 32–pounder Krupp Siege Gun, with Breech-piece open 214
105. The Citadel of Strasburg after the Prussian 215 Bombardment
105_a_. The Shrapnel and Segment Shells 217
106. Harvey’s Torpedo.—Working the Brakes 227
109. Explosion of Whitehead’s Torpedo 231
110. Effect of the Explosion of Whitehead’s Torpedo 232
111. Experiment with a Torpedo charged with 10 lbs. Gun 233 Cotton
112. Explosion of Torpedo containing 67 lbs. Gun Cotton 234
113. Explosion of 432 lbs. Gun Cotton in 37 ft. Water 235
115. Section of Priming Case and Exploding Bolt 236
119. Official Trial of “Harvey’s Sea Torpedo” 239
121. The Warner Experiment off Brighton 241
124. A Group of Egyptian Fellahs and their Wives 254
127. Port Saïd, the Mediterranean Entrance to the Suez 257 Canal