The Engineer 1856 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1856 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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Accident at the Board of Works, 398
Accident, Colliery lo South Staffordshire, 359
Accidents, Railway, 359
Accident, Railway (Note Book), 625, 637, 6.5U
Accident, Railway (Letters), 65o, 674, Gb3
Act, Limited Liability, -112
Adelaide, City and Port Railway, 119
Adelaide, City and Port Railway, Opening of the, 451
Adjustment of Ships' Company' ,Note 373
Adriatic, The, 691
Agricultural Engineering (Note Book), G37
Agricultural Engines, 608, 6U9
Agricultural improvements in the West,
Agricultural Purpose, on the Application of Steam Power to, by Mr. Waller, 607
Agricultural Societies Meeting at Chelmsford, 382
Agriculture, Machinery in (Letter.), 1;23, 1;,•I
Air and Water, :190
Air, Weight or a Cubic Font of, 415
Alarum, Fire and Burglary, 5:4)
Allen’s Alarm Whistle
Alps, Road Across the, 392
Aluminium, 389
Aluminium an Object of Trade, 534
Aluminium for Coinage (Note Book), C85 the Neb.%
American Clocks, 475
American Boot and shoe Sole Machine, 537
American Switches (Letters), 014
American Nut Forging Machine, 484
American Patents, Recent, 485
American View of Railways in Canada, 369
An Engineering Feat, 497
An Inquiring Board (Note Book), 03
An Explosion, 359
Analysis of Leicester Bricks, 696
Anchor, Hunter's Patent Portable, 573
Another Indian Railway with Docks and Steam Tugs (Note Book), 466
Appleton’s Knives for Peeling Fruit, 609
Architects, How the Country Rewards its, 419
Armstrong's Apparatus for Lifting, 6t4
Arctic Exhibition, 1..10
Arrival Southampton of an American Steam Frigate, 649 "r
Arrival of Great Bell at the Palace of Westminster, 676
Art Journal, &c., 419
Art Treasurers Exhibition, 39!), 403, 417, 445, 447, 6:7
Artesian Wells, 411, 429
Artificial Light for taking Photograph', 501
Artificial Stone, 472
Artillery, Whitworth's improvements In, 360
Arts, Society of (Note Book), 637
Arts, Society of, 355, 538, 831, 659, 671
Arts, the Mechanical in Japan, 4Wo
Aria and Sciences, Newton's Loudon Journal of (Serials) 627
Aspinall's Machinery for Coring, &e., Sugar, 417
Association for the Prevention of Boiler Explosions, 61 1, 660, 695
Association, the British, 410, 487
Association, the Steam Colliers (Note Book), 674
Astronomical Expedition to Teneriffe, 571
Astronomical News, 429
Atlantic Steamers, the, 418
Atlantic Telegraph, the, 660, 633, 681
Atmospheric Impurity and Disease, 429
Atmospheric Propeller for Steamers, 494
Australia via Panama, 570
Australia, Steam to, 684
Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Company, 606
Australian Expedition, North, 582
Australian Mails, 360
Australian Mail Contract (Note Books, 421
Australian Screw Clippers (Note Book), 539
Australian Silver, 393
Australian Steam Ship Company, 3S9
Australian Clipper Ship Company, 606
Australian Railway, 576
Australian White Star Clipper " Merrie England," the, 538
Austrian Railways, 359
Austrian Atomic Steel (Letters), 530
Axis, Does the Moon Rotate on her, 399
Axles, Harrison's Improvements in, 497
Axles, Railway (Letters), 694

Baird, Mr., Death of, 454
Balancing Locomotives, and their Train Signals (Letters), 675
Ballasting of Ships, the, 630
Bank of London and National Provincial Assurance Association, 539
Barran's Steam Engines, 669
Batteries, Galvanic, by James Napier, T.R.S., 547
Batteries, Galvanic (Letters), 623
Bearings, Bourdon's Machinery for Lubricating, 560
Beetroot Coffee, 560
Bell for the New Palace at Westminster, the Great, 443, 500, 530
Bell at the Palace of Westminster, Arrival of the, 37G
Birkenhead Dock Works, 564
Bessemer Discovery. the, 462
Bessemer, Henry, 559
Bessemer Iron, the, 518. 554 (Note Book), 559
Bessemer's Improvements in Iron and Steel, 464, 516
Bessemer's Invention, (Note Book), 529 Trial of. 471
Bessemer, Mr., and his Competitors, 522
Bessemer Process (Note Book), 477, 490, 517, 554,
Bessemer Rivals, the, 511, 515
Bessemer's Sugar Inventions, Henry, 579, 615
Big Ben of Westminster, 622
Bird and Rose Improvements in Castors, 5S5
Birkenhead Docks, the, 564, 591
Black Lead in Finland, 659
Blanchard's, General, Pontoons, 522
Blast at Pendelyn Limestone Quarries, 49)
Blasting the Stumps of Trees, 539
Bleaching and Washing, Wallace's Improvements in, 416, 576
Board, an Inquiring (Note Book), 673
Board of Trade Returns, 404
Board, Metropolitan (Note Book), 397
Board of Works, Accident at the, 397
Board of Works, 695
Board of Works, Metropolitan, 358, 370, 394, 407, 418, 946, 450 (Note Book), 538, 550, 562, 563, 575, 587, 610, 022, 635, 617, 638, 675, 682, 695
Board of Works from the Metropolis, Demand of the 570
Board of Works, the Houseless, 566
Boiler, Dunn's (Letters), 695
Boiler, Gardissal's (Letters), 695
Boiler Explosion at Middlesboro', 5512, 627 (Note Book)
Boiler Explosion near Bury, 478, 487, 490
Boiler Explosion at Southampton (Note Book), G62
Boiler Explosions, 3S9, 615
Boiler Explosions (Letters), Boilers, Safety Apparatus for Steam, 523
Boiler Explosions, Steam, Accidents to Machinery, and Scientific Evidence (Letters), 674
Boilers, Proving k Letters), 162
Boilers, Glass Gauges far (Letters), 675
Boiler Safety Apparatus, Routledge's, 555
Bodmer's Hydraulic Seed Crushing Machine, 465
Boiling-down Establishments, the, at Moretown Bay, 295
Bolton, Smoke Burning in, 61)6
Bolts and Rivets, Rose and Wilkes Improvements in, 417
Bombay, 445
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 357
Bombay Telegraph, 424
Bombay Waterworks, the, 635
Bones Soluble in Water, 475
Boot and Shoe Sole Machine, American, 537
Boring Artesian Wells, French Process of, 413
Borrowing not Buying, 464
Bottle Reservoir, 466, 475
Bourdon's Machinery for Lubricating Bearings, 560
Boydell's Traction Engine, 358
Boydell's Traction Engine. Steam Culture with, 533
Brakes for Locomotives, &c., Parson's, 38S
Brake, Railway, 506
Bremner, C.E., Death of Mr. S. 466
Bricks, Machine for Making, Hollow, 499
Brick-making Machinery, Clayton's, 657
Bridge over the Saone, 374
Bridge, New Westminster, 395, 423, 447, 502, 506, 511, 53.1
Bridges, a Practical Treatise on C2SL and Wrought-iron, by R. W. Humber, C.E. (Serials), 627
Brine in Food, Use of, 416

British Association for the Advancement of Science :-487

Report of the Annual Meeting at Chelmsford, 451
On the Construction and Use of an instrument for Determining the Value of Intermittent or Alternating Electric Currents for the Purposes of Practical Telegraphy, by Mr. W. Whitehouse, 523
On the Manufacture of Malleable Iran without fuel, by Mr. H. Bessemer, Recommendations, 443

Brooman's Machinery for Boring and Excavating, 472
Brown's Improvements in Cooking Utensils, 393
Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land Company, the New, 355
Brussels Conference, the (Note Book), 541
Brussels, International Congresses at, 419
Buffer Springs, Richardson's, 388
Buenos Ayres, 419
Buildings, Farm (Note Book), 624
Bury Explosion, the (Letters), 495, 539
Business, Watch-making, 690

Cabane's Apparatus for Dressing Flour, 372
Canada, 702
Canal, Macfarlane's Ship, 659
Canal, Suez, 358
Capstans, Gardissal's Improvements in, 572
Cardiff New Steam Tug Company. 659
Carriage Clip, Improved (American patent), 435
Carriages, Holdway's Improvements in. &c., 445
Carriages, Lya11's Improvements in, 620
Cartridges, Improved, 499
Castors, Bird and Rose's Improvements in, 5S5
Cause of the Inundation in France, 372
Caution to Patentees, 463
Changes in the Approaches to Liverpool, 4S6
Cheques, the Law about. 47S Chelsea Suspension Bridge, 392
Chloroform, New Source of, 513
Christmas Implement Show (Note Book). 662, 674
Churn, Improved ( American patent), 499
City Commission of Sewers, 35s City Improvements, 478
Civil Service, Mr. Albano's Charges for, 360
Claims of the Cort Family (Note Book), 477
Clark's Apparatus for Suspending Insulated Telegraph Wires. 637
Clayton's Brick-making Machinery, 657
Clayton's Horse-power Brick-making Machine, 660
Cleaning Culinary Utensils, Walton and Le Francois' Machinery for, 496
Cliff’s Self-acting Smoke Consuming Apparatus, 404
Clitheroe Water Works, 645
Clipper Ship, Sale of a, 372
Clocks, American, 475
Clock, Westminster, 587
Clocks, an ample Supply of, 618
Clover Seed Harvester. 499
Coal as a Source of Nitrogen, 506
Coal Mines, Reports on (Note Book), 578
Coal Scuttle, Improved, 199
Coalwhippers' Office, the, 37S
Coast Defences. 407
Coat's Improvements in Horse Shoes, 392
Coffee. Beet Root. 500
Coffey's Self-acting Safety Gauge and Syphon, 441
Coinage, Aluminium for (Note Hook), 665
Coinage, Aluminum for, 685
Coinage, the National—From the Morning Post," 574
College for Civil Engineers at Madras, 417
Colliers at Tasmania, 585
Colliers' Strike at Barnsley, 496
Collier's Apparatus for Entering Shafts, 369
Collier's Feeding Apparatus for Vertical Drills, 385
Collier's Shaping Machine, 449
Collier's Scrap Bar Cutting Machine, 369
Colliery Accident in South Staffordshire, 359
Colliery Brakes, 680
Collisions at Sea, Prevention of (Letters), 539
Collodion Plates, Researches on the Methods of Preserving the Sensitiveness of, by John Spiller and W. Crooks, 559
Colonial Fibres for Manufacturing Purposes, 360
Comet, Is it a ? 447
Commissioner of Public Works and the Metropolitan Board. 622
Companies, New, 360
Compasses, Adjustment of Ships', 373
Competitors, Mr. Bessemer and his, 522
Consumption of Coal in the Metropolis, 390
Consumption of Spirits in the United Kingdom, 395
Contracts of the European and Australian Mail Steam Ship Company, 447
Convenient Writing Ink, 372
Cooking Utensils, Brown's Improvements in. 393
Copeland's Apparatus for Distilling Fresh from Salt Water, 445
Copper in Western Australia, 552
Copper Sheathing and its Cost, 383
Corbett's Method of Preserving Tuyeres, 448
Correspondents, Notices to, 361, 373, 385, 397, 409, 421, 449, 46S, 477, 489, 501, 517, 529. 541, 553, 565, 577, 559. 613, 625, 637. 649, 661, 673, 685, 697
Cort Family, the Claims of the, 477
Cort, Richard, 446, 462
Cort, the Case of Mr., 462
Cort Testimonial Fund, the, 525
County Courts (Note Book), 398
Cranes, Newton's Improvements in, 620
Crank, Theory of the (Letters), 683
Credit, Letters of, Non-Accountability of Bankers, 403
Crosley and Goldsmith's Wet Gas Meters, 692
Crude Iron without Fuel. An American the Inventor, on Purifying Molten, 562
Crystal Palace Company, the. and Sir Joseph Paxton, 357
Crystal Palace Water Towers, 359
Crystallisation of Iron (Letters). 694
Culture, Steam (Note Book), 661
Cunard, the, and Australian Mail Company, 684
Curiosities in Locomotive Engines (Letter). 614, 663
Cutting Dovetails, &c., Wimshurst's Machinery for, 1I9G
Cutting Files, Lacroix's Machinery for, 524
Cutting Paper, Scolefield's Machinery for, 360
Cylinder, Large, 534
Cylinder Pistons, White's, 081

Daft's Improvements in Metallic Furniture. li2I
Danubian Steam Navigation Company, 359
Davis's Patent Rubber Chain, 618
Day's Reaping. a, 550
Death of Mr. Baird, 454
Death of Mr. S. Bremner, C.E.. 466
Death of Mr. W. M. Buchanan, 3t44
Death of Mr. Samuel Clegg, jun. (Note Book), 410
Death of Mr. Charles Rammel, 476
Death of Mr. Mendel, C. E.. 643
De Bergue's Propeller, 393
De Chateauneuf's Gas Meter, 597
Defries' Roof Lamp, 357
Demand of the Board of Works from the Metropolis, 570
Deodorisation of Town Sewage (Note Book), 697
Deodorising Tanks, 680
Deodorising Works at Leicester (Paper read at the Society of Arts), 672
Dessale's Lamps, &c., for Railway Carriages, 552
Detonating Arms, 428
Diadem, the, 655
Diamonds, Russian Crown, 430
Diamonds. New, 090
Dick's Gas Regulator, 905
Docks, Jarrow, 573
Docks, Graving. 684
Do we Use the Telegraph ? 512
Doctor Scoresby (the Rev.) on board the Royal Charter (Note Book), 966
Does the Moon Rotate on her Axis ? 399
Doubling Yarns, &c., Platt and Whittaker's, 513
Downie's Improvements in Moulding and Shaping Metals, 632, 644
Drainage, London, 524
Drainage, London (Note Book), 685
Drainage, Metropolitan, 618, 659, 676
Drainage of the Thames Marshes (Note Book), 685
Drainage of Towns (Letters), 560
Dressing Flour, Cabane's Apparatus for, 372
Drilling and Slotting, Sharp and Furnival's Improvements, 488
Driving Screw Propellers, Napier and Miller's Mode of, 549
Dumbarton, Water Supply, 3G9
Dummy Locomotive again, the, 518
Dundee, Launch of the Eastern Monarch at, 548
Dunn's Boiler (Letters), 695
Dutch Royal Steam Navigation Company, 538

Eassie's Improvements in Hammers, 381
East India Company Service, 680
Eastern Bengal Railway Company, 359
Eastern Counties Railway, 382, 407, 415
Eastern Steam Ship, the Great, 399
Education Amongst the Colliers, 5:7
Effects of Machinery, 357
Egypt. 454
Electric Clocks, 419
Electric Currents for purposes of Practical Telegraphy, on the construction and use of an instrument for determining the value of intermittent or alternating, 523
Electro Magnetism a. a Motive Power, 367
Electric Communication with America, 486
Electric Telegraph across the Atlantic, 6.s3
Electric Telegraph Communication with America, 486
Electric Telegraph in India (Note Book), 450
Electric Telegraph, New, 359
Electric Telegraph Wires, Clark's Apparatus for Suspending, 537
Electricity the Cause of Waterspouts, 399
Engineering, Agricultural (Note Book), 637
Engineering Feat, an, 497
Engineers' Strike on the New York and Erie Railroad (Note Book), 589
Engines, Agricultural, 608, 609
Engines, Heavy, 1;1
Engines, Joubert and Bordier’s Improvements in Motive Power, 528
English Patents (Note Book), 477, 4R9
English Repudiation of Englishmen in Distress, 389
European and Australian Royal Mail Company, 523, 692
European and Indian Junction Telegraph Company, 493
Exall's Improvements in Sawing Machinery, 56i
Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester, 357,4395, 403, 417, 445, 447, 527
Exhibition, the Manchester, 358, 370, 391
Exhibition, Manchester Mechanics', 494
Exhibition, Paris Agricultural, 374
Expenses of Railroads in America, 676
Experiments at Woolwich, 683
Experiments to Determine the Resistance of a Screw, by O. Rennie, 477
Experiments with Metals, :1(.19
Exploration of the Nile, *6
Explosion, an, 359
Explosion near Bury, the Boiler, 479, 486, 490, 495, 539
Explosions, for the Prevention of Boiler, 611
Explosions, Boiler, 613, 6%
Explosion, Boiler at Southampton (Note Boo):), 662,674
Explosions, Steam Boiler, 3:c. (Letters), 60, 695
Export Trade in Joinery, 410
Express Steam Navigation Company, 383
Extempore Microscope, 559

Facts for the Future (Note Book), 1;9S
Failure of Fox, Henderson, and Co., the (Note Book, 611
Farm Buildings (Note Book), 626
Fatal Colliery Accident in South Staffordshire, 319
Fibres, Colonial, for Manufacturing Purposes, 360
Fires of London (Note Book), 501
Fire and Burglary Alarum, 550
Flies, 418
Flour, Cabane's Apparatus for Dressing, S'72
Flour Mill, new, 558
Fog Signal Machine, Self-acting, 47R
Folding Fabrics. Wormwald's Machinery for. 536
Fowler and Greig's Improvements in Ploughing, 352
Fowler's Machinery for Ploughing, 500
France, Cause of the Inundations in, 372
France, Steam Communication with, 391
France, Importation of Iron into, 42S
Francis' Metal Wagons, 506
Francis' Metallic Boat.% 633
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, the New, 4SS
French Academy of Sciences, 428
French Model Lodging Houses, 486
Friction Feeding Apparatus for Vertical Drill:, by Collier and Co 388
Friction Box for Powder Mills, Galloway's, 356
Frigate, Arrival at Southampton of an American Steam, 518
Frigates, Cutting in two and Lengthening, 423
Frightful Death at Sheffield, 426
From America to England via Canada, 666
Fuel, the Steam Engine and Economy of, 391, 403, 422, 423, 450, 451, 474
Fuller's Patent India-rubber Springs, 3;2
Fulminating Powder, 429
Furnaces, Wilton's Improvements in, 492
Future, Facts for the (Note Book), 698

Galloway's Friction Box for Powder Mills, 356
Galloway's Pumping Engine, 357
Galloway's Steam Boilers, 692
Galvanic Batteries, By James Napier, F.C,S , 547
Galvanic Batteries (Letters), 623
Gardissal's Steam Boilers, 680
Gardissal's Improvements in Capstan*, 572
Gardissal's Steam Boilers (Letters), 695
Gardner's Apparatus for Heating and Drying, 528
Gas, Salomon Montgago and De Flers' Improvements 111,121
Gas, Dick's Regulator for, 405
Gas in Hobart Town, 405
Gas Illuminating, 429
Gas Meter, De Chateauneuf's, 497
Gas Meter, Crosley's Wet, 692
Gas Nuisance, the City, 5S2
Gas in Omnibuses, 403
Gas in Omnibuses and Steam Boats, 531
Gas, Portable, 527
Gas and Water Company, the Marysville, 359
Gas Works at Buenos Ayres, 394
Gauge, Water, What is a Proper? (Note Book), 673
General Screw Steam Ship Company. 585. 609
Generating Steam, Perkin's Improvements in, 572
Geological Society, 695
Geology and Levels of London, the, 681
Glasgow Corporation Water Works, 6;6
Glass Gauges for Boilers (Letters), 675
Glass, Warren's Improvements in Moulding and Shaping, 417
Good News for Working Men, 470
Gordon's Improvements in Evaporating Fluids, GA
Gosport. Land store Shed at, 654
Government Offices, Proposed Concentration of, 551
" Graduates," a, View of Things in General (Letters), 682
Graham's Mariners' Compass, 622
Graving Docks, 684
Graving Dock Accommodation at Liverpool, 488
Great Bell fur the Westminster Clock, 506, 530
Great Bell of Westminster, 494
Great Eastern, the, 630
Great Eastern Steam Ship, the, 399
Great Ship, the Eastern Steam Navigation Company's, 399
Great Wrought-iron Gun, the, 550,635
Greaves's Cast-Iron Sleeper, 513
Grey's Brick-making Machinery, 473
Guano Island, the New, 391
Gun, the Great Wrought-iron, 550
Gutta-Percha Pipes, and Covering Telegraph Wires, 499

Hale's Rockets. 362
Hamilton's Electric Telegraph Posts, 448
Haley's Rivetting Machine (four in the Provinces, Chapter VI.). 356
Hammers, Eassie's Improvements in, 381
Hampstead-heath, 358
Hampstead-heath. To Be or not to Be? (Note Book), 385
Harpoon, Rechten's. 476
Harrison's Improvements in Axles for Railway Carriages, 497
Harvester, Improved, 4S5
Harvesting Machine, Tolhausen's Improved, 540
Hawthorn's Steam Pump, 632
Healey. Foster, and Lowe's Improvements in Forging and Shaping Metals, 1E4
Health, Hints to Workmen on, 402
Health of London, How to Improve the, 46$
Health of Miners. 606
Heat, the New Theory of, .193
Heat. On the Quantity of, Developed by Water when Violently Agitated, 471
Heating by Gas, 64 •
Heating and Drying. Gardner's Apparatus, 526
Heavy Engines, 611
Heinrich Heine's Opinion of London, 49-1
Henry Bessemer, 559
Heppleston and Hunter's Improvements in Stretching and Finishing Yarns. 492
High Pressure Steam for Marine Purpose, 5UG
Hint to Paper Inventors. 494
Holdway's Carriages,445
Homes, Workmen's Note Book), 649, 661
Hooper's Springs for Carriages. 50
Hostility of Certain Engineers to the Press (Note Book), 590
Hot Summers, 473
Housekeeping, Cost of Colonial, 475
Houseless Board of Works (Note Book), 566
How Streets are Levelled in Paris, 611
How to ?slake Niagara Falls Useful. 695
Hughes' Machine for Making Spokes. &c., 404
Huillard's Apparatus for Singeing and Dressing, 525
Hurst's Mode of Connecting Rails, 472
Hunter's Patent Portable Anchor, 573

Ice, Speculation in, 51S Illuminating Gas, 419
Implement Show. Christmas (Note Book). 674, 6G2
Implements. Smithfield Club Show of, 670
Important Invention in Stereotype, 528
Important Railway Decision. 402
Importation of Iron into France, 428
Imports and Exports of Metals at the Port of London, 365,377. 389. 401, 413, 425, 453, 469, 481, 493.505.521, 533, 515, 557, 569, 581, 593, GIG, G:e9, G41,652,061, 677, 689.701
Improved Mode of Smelting, 417
Improved Wire Cutter. 369
Improvements, City, 478
Improvements in Chancery-lane, 369
Improvements in River Lea Navigation, 069
Improvement in Locomotive Engines (Letters), 623
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sand Paper, 405
Improvements in the Parke, 428
Inauguration of the Wellington Statue at Manchester, 4SS
Incrustation of Steam Boilers (Letters). 633
India-rubber. the Vulcanisation of- From the " Mechanics' Magazine," 574
India, the Government of. 417
India, Necessity for Progress in. 387
India, Public Works in (Letters). 499
Indian Railways (Note Book). 361
Indian River Navigation (Letters). 530
ink. a Convenient Writing, 372
Ink, to Make. 494
" Inquiring" Board, an (Note Book), 673

Institution of Civil Engineers,

418, 422 (Note Book), 610, 619. 631, 643, 671, 679, 696
Institution of Civil Engineers :Annual and General Meeting. G79
On the Improvement in Railway Locomotive Stock and the Reduction of the Working Expenses, By C. K. Clark, Assoc. C. K. 621, 631
Discussion on Mr. Clark's Paper. 613
Death of Mr. Rendel, C. E., 613
OD the Laws of the Strength of Wrought and Cast-iron, by Mr. W. Bell, 679
On Water Meters. by T. T. Jopling, 671

Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings of the (Note Book), 636
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, C91
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 387, 406, 473, 518
(Note Book), 530, 623

Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

On the Application of Steam Power to Agricultural Purposes, by Mr. W. Waller (Paper read before the Institution), 607
The General Meeting, 623
General Meeting of the Institution, 406
The Opening Address at Glasgow, 314
A Public Meeting, 475

Instrument, Pocket (Letters), 694
Instrument. On the Construction and Use of an Instrument for Determining the Value or Intermittent or Alternating Electric Currents for Purposes of Practical Telegraphy. 523
Interaction of Natural Forces, on the, by H. Helmoth, 455, 459
Interesting to Ship Owners, 633
International Coasting Company, 496
Inundations in France, Cause of the, 372
Invention, the, of the 111nie Ride 691
Invention to Exclude Dust from Railroad Cars, 531
Invention, Useful, 575
Inventions, the Influence of, 415
Inventor of Purifying Molten Crude Iron without Fuel an American-From the e• Scientific American," 5:;2
Iron Bridge for the East India Railway, Gi;t;
Iron, Crystallisation of (Letters), 694
Iron in Devonshire, 552
Iron in India (Note Book), 529
Iron, Like Superior, 603
Iron Making in India, 515
Iron Making and the Application of Fuel, by W. B. Adams, 475
Iron Mines of Exmoor, the, 357
Iron Smelting, Improved Mode of, 4S7
Iron Steam Ship Building, 622
Iron, the, Coal And General Trader of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 366, 378, 389, 401, 413, 4::,, 453, 460, 481, 493, 505, 521, 533, 545, 557, 569, 561, 593, 616, 629, 641, 652, 664, 677, 6t,9, 701
Iron Trade in the United States, 380
Iron Working and Fuel, by W. B. Adams, 487
Iron Works belonging to the Royal British Bank, 566
Iron, the Bessemer, 513, 554, 559
Iron and Steel, Bessemer's Improvement’s in, 401, 516
Iron and Steel without Fuel, the Manufacture of Malleable, Bessemer's, 486
Irrigation, 566
Irrigation in the Madras Provinces (Reviews), 512
Island, a New Guano, 391

Jarrow Docks. 573
Jennings's Improvements in Rising Pipes and Suction Valves of Pumps, 388
Jobson's Machinery for Moulding Railway Chairs, 527
Joint Stock Liability (Note Book), 409
Joubert and Bordier’s Motive Power Engines. 523
Jones and Shirreff's Rotary Engines and Pumps, 615
Jopling's Water deter, 501
Kendrick v. Payne, 615
Krupp's Railway Wheels, 395
Labour Report, the Sydney, 382
Lacroix's Machinery for Cutting Files, 521
Lacy's Mode of Changing Letter Bass, 65.;
Lamb and Ronald's Improvements in Iron Ships, Boats, xe., 621
Lamps, Defries', for Railway Carriages, 357
Lamps, Dessele's, for Railway Carriages, 553
Lamps, Mule's, (356
Land Store Shed at Gosport, 651
Late Mr. Rastrick, the (Note Book), 627
Late Mr. Rendel, the (Note Book), 650
Late War, the, 389
Launch of the Eliza Corry, 665
Launch of a Spanish Steamer. 445
Law Proceedings, 358, 371, 394, 407, 418. 1.IG, 622, 6:)9, 6S2

Law Proceedings :—

African Steam Ship Company, the, versus Swanzy (Vice Chancellors Court), 359
Beattie versus the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Co. (Queen's Bench, 371
Booth versus Hassell (Vice Chancellor's Court), 3S7
Royal versus Keyworth and tillers (Guildhall), 371
Carpenter versus the London and South Eastern Railway Company (Home Circuit. Maidstone). 394
Convictions under the Smoke Nuisance Act (Southwark Police Court), 394
De Bergue versus Bailey (Exchequer), 371
De La Rue versus Dickenson (Vice Chancellor's Court), 659
Dixon versus Bovill (House of Lords), .107
Great Western Railway Company versus Bourne (Midland Circuit`, .107
Hills versus the London Gas Company ('Exchequer;, 659
In re Thomas Bernie (Bankruptcy Court), 118
In re Bessemer's Patent (Chancery Court). 122
In re William Dodds (Bankruptcy Court), 3;1
In re Mackintosh's Patent (Chancery Con. t), 6S2
In re C. J. Mare (Bankruptcy Court), 359, 371, 418, 622
In re Polglass (Bankruptcy Court), 387
In re J. Roberts (Court of Bankruptcy), 446
Inquiry respecting a Boiler Explosion (Oxford Circuit), 394
Koeber versus England (Court of Exchequer), 3:,9
Lister and Another versus Leatherhead Another (Home Circuit Chelmsford), 418
Little versus Hackett (Oxford Circuit), 394
Mackenzie Tarsus Dunlop and Wilson and Co. (House of Lords), 407
Milligan versus Marsh (Chancery Court), 40T
Parish of St. John Westminster versus the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company (Westminster Police Court), $07
Patrick and Another versus Reynolds (Common Pleas), 359
Ransom versus Jordioin (home Circuit, Hertford), 356 •
Shipwrights' Strike, the (Thames Police Court), 339, 371. 387. 407

Law about Cheques, 478
Law of Squares, on the, 498
Lawrie's Improvements in Steam Engines, 696
Laws, Patent (Letters), 422, 6ti3, 695
Lead Circular, 365
Leap, a Desperate, 447
Lees and Newton's Machinery for Spinning, 444
Leicester Bricks, Analysis of. 690
Les Ouvriers Europeens, 659
Letter Bags, Lacy's Mode of Changing, 656
Library, the Patent Office, 639
Library, the Patent Office (Note Book), 626
Library, the Patent Office (Letters), 675
Life-boat, Trial of a, 582
Lifting and Hauling, Armstrong's Improvements, 6%
Light, Artificial, for taking Photographs, 561
Light Gilding of Gold, a, 391
Lighthouse, a New, on the Needles Rock, 366
Lighthouses, On the History and Construction of Iron, 424
Limited Liability Act, 400, 412
Liability, Joint Stock, 409
Liverpool, Changes in the Approaches to, 490
Liverpool Polytechnic Society, 514
Little's Lamps, 656
Locomotive Boiler Explosion at Middlesborough (Note Book), 627
Locomotive, the Dummy, again, 548
Locomotive Engines, Prestage's, 504
Locomotive Engines, Curiosities in (Letters), 663
Locomotive Engines, Improvements in (Letters), 623
Locomotive, Marine, (106
Locomotive Practice, Curiosities in, 614
Locomotive, Whitgreave's (Letters), 648, 662, 675, 6!-t
Locomotive, Whitgreave's Defence of his (Letters), 682
Lodging-houses, French Model, 487
London Docks, :357
London Drainage (Note Book), 685
London, Fires in (Note Book), 501
London Omnibuses, 472 (Note Book), 524, 541, 553
London Water (Note Book), 638
Looms, Valentine, Foster, and Haworth's Power, 340
Looms. Ward's improvements in, 497
Loss of Power in steam Engines (Letters), 675
Lowering Boats, Clifford's Apparatus for, 584
Lucifer Matches, 430
Lyall's Improvements in Carriages, 620
Lynn's Mode of Constructing Screw Propellers, 561
Lyons' Railway Bridges 570

Maccaud's Apparatus for Discovering the Leakage of Gas, 392
Macfarlane's Ship Canal, 659
Machine for Paring Apples, &c., 561
Machine, a Valuable, 539
Machinery in Agriculture (Letters), 623, 651
Machinery, the Effects of, 35;
Maclure's Improvements in Lithographic Presses, 488
Madras Provinces, Irrigation in the (Review), 542
Magnetism, Electro, as a Motive Power, 367
Major de Benningsen, Foerder, 6tc., 475
Mammoth Tree, the, from California, 3e9
Manchester Mechanics' Exhibition, 404
Manchester Exhibition, the, 358, 370, 394, 494, 527
Manufacture of Rails in Russia, 389
Manufacture of Sand Paper, Improvements in the, .105
Map of Central America, 365
Marcus's Apparatus for Working the Furnace Damper, 621
Mare and Co., Messrs., 530
Marine Engines, Randolph and Elder's Improvements in, 623
Marine Engines, Ronan's Improvements in, VA
Marriages, Births, and Deaths In England, Quarterly Return of, 611
Marshall, Mr. Fred., 389
Marysville Gas and %Voter Company, 359
Masters and Operatives, •121 (Note Book), 419, 465
Mechanical Arts in Japan, the, •105
Medal, Society of Arts', 355
Meeting of British Association, 411
Metallic Alloy, a New, 393
Metallic Furniture, Daft's Improvements in, 621
Metals, Experiments with, 399
Metals at the Port of London, Imports and Exports of, 365, 377, 389, 401, 413, 425, 453, 469, 481, 493, 505, 521, 533, 545, 557, 569, 581, 693, GIG, 62:1, 641, 645, 664, 677, 689, 701
Metals and Manufactures in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Districts, 366, 378, 390, 402, 414, 426, 454, 470, 482, 494, 506, 522, 534, 546, 558, 570, 582, 594, 618, 630, 642, 653, 666, 678, 690, 702
Meter, Siemen's and Adamson's Water, 537
Metropolitan Drainage, 618, 059, 676
Metropolitan Drainage, Outfall to the Sea, 676
Metropolitan Improvements, 463
Metropolitan Sewage, 632, 553
Metropolitan Sewage (Note Book), 542, 553, 557, 577, 578
Metropolitan Sewers (Note Book), 409

Metropolitan Board of Works :

Rejection of Southern Metropolitan Drainage Scheme, 358
Thames Embankment, 35S, 401
Outfall of the Main Southern Drainage at Erith, 370
An Important Principle, 370
The Effra Sewer, 370
correspondence between Mr. Gray and Mr. Cully, 370
youth Drainage Scheme, 387
Great London Drainage Scheme, 39.1, 407, 53% 550, b63, 575, 587, 622, 6b5, 647, 658, 682
Austen's Plan of Tunnelling the River, -118
Height and Projection of Houses, 419
Improvements in Southwark. 419
Extension of Sewage, 446
New Streets, 446
Another Outfall Scheme, 539
Assessment of the Districts for the Board and Liability, 650
New Street in Southwark, 550, 561, 622, 635, 617, 695
Claims for Compensation, 550
Site of Offices. 562, 675, 622, 647
Notices of Motion, 562
Privilege of Members, 562
New Street from Cranbourne-street to King-street, Covent-garden, 563. 622, 647
District Deputation. 675
Proposed Park for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe. 557
Improvements in Southwark, 587
Application for Leave to Alter Premises, 610
Places of Public Recreation, 610, 658
Interview with Sir 13. Hall, 622
Freedom of the Bridges, 622
Rejection of the Drainage Plan by Sir B. Hall, 622
Engineer's Report. 625, 658
Mr. McClean's Plan, 635, G69
lark for the Northern Suburbs, 647
Public Parks, 658
Intercepting Sewers, 682
Street Nomenclature, 1322, (95
Ventilation of Sewers, Ott&

Metropolitan Board of Works, Sir Benjamin Hall and the, 610
Metropolis Water Supply, 639, 616
Mexican Government, the, 491
M'Glashan and Field's Printing Presses, 381
Microscope, Extempore, 359
Mill, New Flour, 558
Mines, the Iron, of Exmoor, 357
Mini6 Rifle, the Invention of the, 691
Model Lodging Movement, the, 1;92
Money and Interest, or Money and Profits (Note Book), 3s5
Moon's Rotation, the, 5$6
Monster Blast at Penderyn Limestone Quarries, 499
Monster Organ, 527
Morecambe Bay (Tour in the Provinces). 526 and Plate T.
Morecambe Bay, Railway across (Letter.), 53')
More Wonders, 570
Moretown Bay, the Boiling Down Establishment at, 395
Morrison’s Pile Driving Machinery, GI 1, 612
(dove, a Strange, if true, 463
Much Ado about Nothing (Note Book), 361
3livr's Improvements in Slide Lathes, 5.10
Muir's Machinery for Mime Rifle Sights (Tour in the Provinces, Chapter VIII.), 46)
Munslow and Wallwork's Railways, 39:3
Murray's AV heels for Locomotive!, 585

Napier and Miller's dodo of Driving Screw Propellers, 549
Nasmyth and Newton's Mode of Making (tricks, National Coinage— From the "Morning Post," 57.1
National Gallery, the (Note Book), 361
Nature of Patent Right (Note Book), 518, 529
Natural Forces, on the Interaction of, 427
Navigation, Improvements in River Lea, N. Beardmore, C.E., Engineer, 669
Necessity for Progress in India (Note Book), 38G
Neilson's Improvements in Locomotive Engines, 660
New American Steam Ships of War—From the "Mechanic's Magazine," 663
New Belgian Tariff, 411
New Calculating Machine, a, 663
New Chimney Shaft at Woolwich, 514
New Companies, 360 (Note Book), 397
New Diamond, 696
New Electric Telegraph, 359
New Free Trade Hall. Manchester, Now Indian Railway (Note Book), 362
New Iron Shipbuilding Company, 563
New Lighthouse, a, on the Needle Hocks, 366
New Line of Steamers to the Cape, 403
New Map of Central America, 365
New Marble Facing, 676
New Metallic Alloy, 393
New Metallic Aluminium, 563
New Phase in Iron Making, a, (Note Book), 450
New Route to Ireland, 419
New Street through Southwark, 676
New Streets, 402
New Theory of Heat, the— From the "Scientific American," 495
New Vessels, 359
New Westminster Bridge, 395, 423
Newell's Telegraph Insulators, 656
News, Astronomical, 429
News, Good, for Working Men, 470
Newton's Improvements in Cranes, GM
Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences (Serials', 627
Nicol's Fire-plates and Heating Apparatus, 408
Nile, Exploration of the, 48C
Nitrate of Silver for Burns, 478
Non-punctuality of Railway Trains, 393
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, 418
Nothing Old under the Sun, 415
Nothing, Much Ado about (Note Rook), 361

NOTE Book.—

Agricultural Engineering, 637
Adjustment of Ship's Compasses, 373
Aluminium for Coinage, 6,45
Another Indian Railway with Docks and Steam Tugs, 466
Australian Screw Clippers, 589
Australian, the, Mail Contract, 421
Bessemer's Invention, 529
Bessemer's Iron, 551
Bessemer's Process, 477, 490, 517
Board, an Inquiring, 673
Board, Metropolitan, the, 397
Boiler Explosion at Southampton, 662
Boiler Explosion, the, near Bury, 478, 490
Brussels Conferences, the, 511
Christmas Implement Show, 662, 674
Claims of the Cort Family, 477
County Courts, 398
Death of Mr. Samuel Clegg, jilts , the, 410
Deodorisation of Town Sewage, 697
Disregard of the Rights of Patentees, 397
Doctor Scoresby's, the Rev., Experiments on Board the Royal Charter, 466
Drainage of the Thames Marshes, 685
Electric Telegraph, the, in India, 450
Engineers' Strike on the New York and Erie Railroad, 589
English Patents, 477, •189
Facts fur the Future, 698
Failure, the, of Fox, Henderson, and Co., 614
Farm Buildings, 626
Fires in London, 501
Hampstead Heath—To be or not to be? 386
Hostility of Certain Engineers to the Press, 590
Houseless Board of Works, the, :)66
Indian Railways, 361
Inquiring, an, Board, 673
Institution of Civil Engineers, 422
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 518
Iron in India, f.19
Joint Stock Liability, 409
Late Mr. Rastrick, the. 627
Late Mr. Rendel, the, 650
Locomotive Boiler Explosion at Middlesborough, 627
London Drainage, 685
London Omnibuses, 541, 553
London Water, 638
Masters and Operatives, 421, 419, 465
Metropolitan Board, the, 4:a)
Metropolitan Sewage, the, 542, 553, 577
Metropolitan Sewers, 4u9
Money and Interest, or Money and Profits, 385
Much Ado about Nothing, 301
National Gallery, the, 361
Nature of Patent Bight, the, 518, 529
Necessity for Progress in India, 486
New Companies 397
New Indian Railway 361
New, a, Phase in Iron Making. 450
Patent, the, Office Library, 626
Patent Perplexities and Anomalies, 465
Payment of Wages, 613
Philosophy of Patent Right, the, 577
Proceedings at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 686
Proposed New Thoroughfare, the, 565
Public Works of Greece, 625
Question, the, of Sewage Manure, 619
Railway Accidents, 625. 00
Railway Accidents casts, Railway Signals, 422
Railway and Telegraph Operations in India, 422
Railway Signals, 449, 489, 541
Recent Railway Accidents, 637
Reports on Coal Mines, 578
Reprieve, a, Execution Postponed, 398
Sanitary Proceedings in Liverpool, 614
Scoresby's (Dr) Experiments on board the "Royal Charter," 465
Sewage Question, the, 565, 625
Sham, a, 373
Society of Art., 631
South Sewerage, the, 373
Steam Boilers, 501, 553
Steam Colliers Association, the, 674
Steam Culture, 661
Steam Culture versus American Slavery, 613
Suggestion, a, for Liverpool, 373
Thames Towage and Lighterage Company, 409
Tin, 386
To Our Readers, 697
Tongue, a, for "Big Ben," 614
Towing: on the Thames, 386
Town Sewage and Drainage, 673
Trade Morality, 385
Uchatius' Process for Cast Steel, 365
Unequal Railway Tariffs, 409
Westminster Bridge, 502
Westminster Bridge A fair, 517
What is a Proper Water Gauge ? 673
Workmen's Home', 619, 661

Notices to Correspondents, 361, 373, 385, 397, 409, 421. 449, 465, 477, -019, 501, 317, 529, 541, 553, 565, 577, 589, 613, 625, 637, 649, 661, 673, 685, 697

Novel Trawling Apparatus for Mariners, 448
Numbers in Nature, 471
Nuisance, the Smoke, 410, 498
Nunn's Combined Table, Wash-stand, Mirror, Ste, 4C4
Nut Forging Machine, American, 484

Observer at the Kew Observatory, Assistant, 443
Offices, the New Public, 345
Offices, Proposed Concentration of Government, 551
Offices, The Public, 421)
Ogdensburg Submarine Cable, 418
Omnibuses, London, 472 (Note Book), 341, 353
Oriental Inland Steam Company. 539
Oxley's Wheel Machinery, 463

Pacific Railroad, the, 702
Packing. Steam, 369
Paddle-wheels, Taylor's, 392
Panopticon, the, 411
Panopticon, Sale of the, 44i
Paper Inventors. a Hint to, 491
Paper and Pulp Steam Mill, Woolwich, New, 495
Paper from Sunflowers, Park Agricultural Exhibition, 374
Park. James's, 417
Parks, Improvements in the, 428
Parliamentary Intelligence, 358, 371, 391, 406

Parliamentary Intelligence:

Arctic Expedition, the (House of Commons), 371
Australian Mail Service, the (House of Lords), 406
Australian Mails (House of Commons), 406
Australian Postal Service (House of Commons), 359, 371
Drainage Private Advances Act Amendment Bill, 371
Dwellings for the Labouring Classes (Ireland) Bill (House of Commons), 359, 371
Hampstead-heath ((louse o1 Lords), 406
House of Commons Weather Cock, the (House of Commons. 371
Indian Currency and Railways (house of Commons), 371
Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Bill (House of Lords), On;
Leases of sales of Settled Estates Bill, Hampstead Heath (House of Commons), 394
Local Charges on Shipping (House of Commons), 371
Mail Service between England and Ireland (House of Lords), 358
Mersey Steel and Iron Co. (House of Commons), 391
Metropolis Management Act Amendment ( No. 2) Bill House of Commons), 394, 371
National Gallery Site Bill (House of Commons), 35", 371
New National Gallery, the (House of Commons), 371
Partnership Amendment Bill (House of Commons), 371
Patent Law (House of Lords), 40G
Postal Service to the Cape and India ((louse of Commons), 406
Railway Traffic (House of Commons), 35)
Removal of the National Gallery (House of Commons), 358
Smithfield Market (House of Commons), .107
Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Act, lf..53 (House of Commons) 394
Westminster Bridge (House of Commons, 371

Parry's Improvements in Puddling and Relining Iron, 573
Parson's Brake, 3b8
Patentees, Good News for, 430
Patentees, Caution to, 401
Patents, Bill to Amend the several Acts now in force in relation to American, 456
Patents. Extract from the Report, to Parliament of the Commissioners of, 478
Patent Law Reform, 468, 476, 659
Patent Laws (Letters), 683, 695
Patent Laws, 42'2
Patent Laws. Reform of the (Letters), 674, C62
Patent Office Library (Note Book), 626, 639
Patent Office Library (Letters), Ste., 67s. 678
Patent Perplexities and Anomalies (Note Book). 465
Patent Rights. the Nature of, 518, 529
Patent Right, Philosophy of (Note Book), 577
Patents, Recent American, 485
Patents, English, 489
Pay Day Question, the, 611
Payment of W ages (Note Book), G13
Payment of Wages (Letters), 639, 651
Peculiar Arrangement of a Voltaic Battery, 416
Pegg's Steering Apparatus, 633
Pembroke Dockyard, the Strike at, 389
Pen, Todd and Pinkney's Balance, 405
Perkins' Apparatus for Generating Steam. 572
Perkin's Mode of Warming Buildings, &c., 384
Persia's Rival, the. 574
Persia's Voyage, the, 463
Phenomenon, Singular, 415
Philosophy of Patent Right, the (Note Book), 577
Photographic Lens, 635
Photography by Lamp Light, 516
Photography in England, 575
Photography in Forcing. 419
Pickpocket Detector, 499
Pile Driving Machinery, Morrison's, 611, 612
Pistol, new Repeating, 499
Pistons, White's Cylinder, 481
Pistol, a New, 606
Planing Machine for Metal, Double-acting, 499
Planing Iron, Machine for, 499
Plants in Sleeping Room, 410
Platt and Whitaker's Machinery for Doubling Yams, 513
Plough, a Prairie Steam, 334
Ploughing Land, Fowler's Machine for, 500
Ploughing, Fowler and Greig's Improvements, 552
Pocket Instrument (Letters), 624
Polo and Kitson's Railway Wheels, 464
Polishing Powder, New, 372
Portable Gas, 527
Powders. Tooth, 430
Powder Mill, Galloway's Friction Box for, 356
Power of Sea Breaker t, 663
Practical Telegraphy.' oh trio Construction and Ube (of all 'Imminent for Determining the Value of Intermittent or Alternating Electric Currents for Purposes of, 523
Practical Treatise on Cast and Wrought-iron Bridges, tic., By W. Humber, C.E. (Serials), 627
Preparations for the General Exhibition of Swiss Industry, 429
Prestage's Improvements in Locomotive Engines, 564
Prevention of Collisions at Sea (Letters). 529
Prices Current of Metals, 365, 377, 389, 401, 413, 425, 153, 409, •181, 493, 505, 521, 533, 515, 557, 569, 581, 593, 616, OW, 041, 652, (104„ 677, 089, 701
Printing Presses, Improved, 4-'6
Printing Presses, M’Glashan and Field's, 381
Printing Presses, Maclure's Lithographic, 488
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Note Book), 660
Process, the Bessemer (Note Book). 477, 450, 517, 554
Production of very High Temperatures, 415
Profit or Interest, 406
Progress of Speculation, 420
Progress, Telegraphic, 429
Progress Reports of the East India Railway, 500
Propeller, a Brass, 417
Propeller, De Bergue's, 393
Propeller for Steamers, Atmospheric, 494
Propellers. Lynn's Mode of Constructing Screw, 501
Propellers. Screw, at High Velocities, 4s0
Proposed Concentration of Government Offices, 551
Proposed new Thoroughfare, the (Note Book). 565
Providential Arrangement of the Alpine Regions, the, 447
Provinces, a Tour in the, 356, 30, 460, 483, 520
Proving Boilers (Letters), 662
Public Offices, new, 515
Public Offices, the, 429
Public Offices, Report on the, 395
Public Works in India, 499
Public Works at Sydney, 332
Puddling Iron, &c., Parry's Improvements, 573
Pump, self-acting Ship's, 485
Pumps, Jenning's Improvements in the Rising Pipe and Section Valve of, 388
Pumping Engine, Galloway's, 357
Punching and Shearing Machine, by Messrs. Galloway, 36$

Quarterly Return of Marriages, 611
Quarterly Report of the Scotch Iron Trade, 365
Question, the Sewage-Letter to the Chairman of the Board of Works, 562
Question, the Sewage (Note Book), 615
Question, the, of Sewage Manure (Note Book), 505, 649

Railroads in America. Expenses of, 576
Rails in Russia, Manufacture of, 3-`,9
Railway Accidents. 359
Railway Accidents (Letters). 650, 674. 675. 6S3
Railway Accidents (Note Book), 62`,, 637, 650
Railway Accidents v. Railway Signals (Note Book), 422
Railway Aer053 Morecambe Bay (Letters),531
Railway, Adelaide City and Poll, 419
Railway Affairs in Canada, American View of, $69
Railway, Another Indian, with Docks and Steam Tugs (Note Book), 466
Railway, the Grand Asiatic, 44T
Railway. Australian, 576
Railway Axles 694
Railway Break, 506
Railway, Caterham, 415
Railway Chairs, Patent Machinery for Mouldier, 527
Railway Company. Eastern Bengal, 359
Railway Decision, Important. 402
Railway, Eastern Counties, 383, 407, 415
Hallway, the Euphrates Valley, 494
Railway, the Central Indian Company. 442
Railway. Opening of the Adelaide, 451
Railway Operations in Turkey, 53-1
Railway Progress, 383
Railway, Proposed Bristol, South Wales, and Southampton, 39 4
Railway, Riga. 369
Railway Rolling Stock and Plant Company, New, 516
Railway. Scinde, 506, 575
Railway Signals, 449, 489, 535. 541, 555 (Letters), 6.5R, 6S3
Railway Switches, American. 615
Railway Tariff), the. 582
Railway Tariffs, Unequal. 409
Railway and Telegraph Operations in India (Note Book), .122
Railway through the Alps, 666
Railway Traffic, Increase of, 378
Railway Traffic. Progress of, 3s3
Railway Train. a Family, 486
Railway Trains, Non-punctuality of, 393
Railways e. Passengers. 428
Railway Wheels, Krupps' Improvements in, 395
Railway Wheels, Pole and Kitsons's,
Railways, Austrian. 359
Railways for Russia, 471
Railways, Hurts's of Connecting the Rails of, .172
Railways, New Indian, 361, 362
Railways in Sweden, 4s4
Railways, Munslow and Wallwork's Improvements in, 393
Railways in the United Kingdom, 3i2
Railways in the United Kingdom, synopsis of, 495
Railways, What is Wanted in, 622
Rammell, Death of Mr. Charles 476
Randolph and Elder's Marine Engines. 623
Ransome's Siliceous Stone, 655, Gar (Letters), 083
Rapping of the Mummies, 473
Rastrick, the late Mr. (Note Book), 627
Readers, to Our (Note Book), 697
Reading's Fastenings for Watch keys, 611
Reaping, a Day's, 550
Reaping Machinery, Trials of, 446, 462
Re-building of Covent Garden Theatre, 405
Recent American Patents, 6ts0
Recent Railway Accidents ( Note Book), 637
Rechten's Harpoon, 476
Records of Longevity (Review). 590
Recovery of £60.000 worth of property from a Sunken Vessel, 640
Reform, Patent. 475
Reform of the Patent Laws (Letter), 662, 671
Regenerative Steam Engine. Siemen's, 119
Regenerative Steam Engine, On a, 379
Regulator for Gas, Thad, 405
Relics, Submarine. 407
Removal, the, and Utilisation of the Sewage of the Metropolis, &c. (Letters), 650
Rendel, the late Mr. (Note Book). 650
Repeal of the Paper Ditty. 622
Reports on Coal Mines. 578
Report on Public Offices, the, 395
Report of the Scotch Iron Trade. 365
Reprieve, a. Execution Postponed (Note Book), 398
Researches on the Method of Preserving the Sensitiveness of Collodion Plates, by John Spiller and W, Crook), 559
Reserve Fleet at Pembroke, 585
Reservoir Bottle. 466. 475
Resuscitation of Drowned Persons, 430
Returns. Board of Trade. 404
Richardson's Buffer-springs. 388
Richardson and Jaffrey's Marine Engines. 5S5
Rights of Patentees, Disregard of, ".e97
Rivals, the Bessemer, 511, 515
Rival, the Persia's. 574
River Lea Navigation, Imports in the, 6t0
River Weaver. 564
Rockets. Mr. Hale's. 362
Ross and Wilkes' Bolts, 417
Rotation, the Moon's. 518, 586
Rowan's 51arine Engines, 408

Royal Institution of Great Britain

On M. Petitjean's Process for Silvering Glass; Some Observations on Divided Gold. by Professor Faraday, D.0 L., F.R.S.„ 370
On a Regenerative Steam Engine (Paper read before the Institution). 379

Royal George, the, 454
Royal Society, 65/3
Russian Crown Diamonds, 430
Russian Queries, 359
Russian Railways, 360, 378, 971, 613

Safety Apparatus for Steam Boilers (Letters), 530
Safety Apparatus for Steam Boilers, Routledge's, 55)
Safety Gauge, arc.. Coffey's, 444
Safety edge for Mines, 423
Safety Poop, Patent, 335
Safety Valve, York's, 549
Safety Valve., Walker's Improvements in, :4e , 519
Sale of an Iron Clipper Ship, 37'2
Sale of the Panopticon, 445
Salomon, Montgago, and De Flers’ Improvements in Gas, 424
Salt. Mr. Titus, and his Workpeople, 531
Sanitary Improvements in Liverpool (Note Book), 614
Sappers and Miners, 587
Sapping and Mining, 664
Sawing Machine, 49/
Sawing Machinery, Fawn's, 561
Saws, Improvements in, .199
Sawley's Signal Apparatus, 6S3
Schafer's Apparatus for Damping Gummed Stamps, 611
Scolefield's Machinery for Cutting Paper, 360
Scoresby's, the Rev. Dr., Compass Experiments and Oh. serrations on Magnetic Change* in the Royal Charter, 462
Scoresby, the Rev. Dr., on Board the Royal Charter, 464;
Scrap, Tyre, and Railway Bar Cutting Machine, by Collier and Co., 369
Screw, Experiments to Determine the Resistance of a, by G. Rennie, 476
Screw Propellers at High Velocities, 986
Screw Steam Company, General, 609
Screw Steamer, the Great Britain, 660
Screw Steamer Helios. the, 539
Screw Steamer for the Dumfries, Liverpool, and Glasgow Trade, J22
Scuttle, improved Coal, .1:15
Scinde Railway, 574
Search for Treasure on the "Hussar." 407
Secrets of the Peat Boy, 399
Self-swimmer, the, 476

Serials :—

Humber's Bridges, 627
Newton's London Journal, 62T

Sewage Gales, on the Diffusion of, 5146
Sewage Manure, the Question of (Note Book), 6-19
Sewage, Metropolitan, 512 (Letters), 553, 577, .576
Sewage Salvage, The
Sewage of Towns, the, 486
Sewage and Drainage, Town (Note Book), 673
Sewage of the Metropolis, &c., the Removal and Utilisation of the (Letters), 6:41
Sewage Question, the letter to the Chairman of the Board of Works, by W. Burgess, 562
Sewage Question, 9u3 (Letters), 562. 565, 625 (Note Book), 625
Sewerage and Drainage (Letters), 579
Sewerage of Sunderland, 403
Sewer., the Metropolitan, 409
Sewers, City Commission of, 358
Shade Tito for our City, :82
Shaft at Woolwich, New Chimney, 514
Shafts, Collier's Apparatus for Centering, 369
Sham, a (Note Book), 373
Shaping Machine by W. Collier and Co., 4-18
Shaping Metals, Healey, Foster, and Lowe's Improvements in, 383
Sharp and Furnival's Machinery for Drilling and Slotting, 488
Sheppard's Tap or Stop-cock, 473
Sheathing Copper, it’s Cost, 383
Sheer Legs at the Victoria (London) Docks, 591, 592
Sheffield and its Manufactures, 454
Shingling Roof, Platform for, 499
Ship, the Great Eastern Steam, 399
Ship, the Great Eastern Steam Navigation Company, 563
Shipbuilding Company, New Iron, 562
Shipbuilding in Liverpool, 554
Shipbuilding on the Tyne, 462
Ship Canal Projects, Interoceanic, 473
Ships' Compasses, Adjustment of (Note Book), 373
Ship, McSweny's Jointed, 419
Ships' Knees, Trial of, 463
Shipwrights' Strike, the, 406, 482
Siemens' and Adamson's Water Meter, 537
Siemens' Regenerative Steam Engine, 419
Signals, Railway (J. A. M.), 535
Signals, Railway, 489, 541 (Note Book), 555, 6;,9
Signals, Railway (Letters), 683
Sidney Labour Report, 382
Sidney, Public Works at, 382
Siliceous Stone, Ransome's, 655, 667
Siliceous Stone, Ransome’s (Letters), 683
Sinclair's Iron Pins, 633
Singeing and Dressing Textile Fabrics, Huillard's Apparatus, 525
Slate Cutting Machinery, 690
Slate, Whitewash on, 399
Slaughter's Improvements in Fire Boxes, 34S
Sleeper, Greaves' Patent Cast Iron, 513
Sleeping Rooms, Plants in, 410
Slide Lathes, Muir's, 540
Sloops and Schooner., Improved Rig for, 499
Smithfield Club Show of Implements, 67U Smoke Burning, Bolton, 594
Smoke Consuming Apparatus, Cliff's, 404
Smoke Consumption, 475
Smoke Conviction, 463
Smoke, Mr. Williams on, 451, 466
Smoke Nuisance, the, 410, 498
Society of Arts, 355, 538, 634, 646, 659, 671

Society of Arts' Premium List, 538

The Address by Col. Sykes, F.R.S., 634
Indian Fibres, by F. Royle, 646
Ivory and Teeth of Commerce, 682
On a Method of Treating Linseed Oil. By Christopher 'links, 6,-;0
On the Utilisation of the Sewage of Towns. By Mr. F. Cooke, 671

Society of Arts (Note Book), 637
Society of Arts' Medal, 355
Society, the Royal Agricultural, 402
Society, the Geological!, 695
South Sewerage, the (Note Book', 373
Spanish Steamer, Launch of a, 445
Spinning, Lee and Newton's Machinery for, 4-14
Springs, Hooper's Carriage, 560
Speculation, Progress of, 426
Speculation in Ice, 548
Speculation in Leather from Porpoise 33u
Squares, On the Law of, 498
Stave Machine, 499
Steam to Australia, 6S1
Steam for Marine Purposes, High Pressure, 506
Steam Boilers, 501 (Note Book), 553
Steam Boiler Explosions (Letters), 695
Steam Boiler Explosions—Accidents to Machinery, and Scientific Evidence (Letters), 674
Steam Boilers, important Improvement for, 463
Steam Boilers, Incrustation of (Letters), 638
Steam Collier Company, the, 611
Steam Colliers' Association, the (Note Book), 674
Steam Communication with France, 391
Steam Company, General Screw, 447, 585
Steam Company, the Genoa Transatlantic, 618
Steam Company, Oriental Inland, 536
Steam Culture (Note Book), 661
Steam Culture with Boydell's Traction Engine, 538
Steam Culture versus American Slavery (Note Book), 613
Steam Engine and Economy of Fuel, 353, 391, 403, 422, 423, 450, 451, 474
Steam Engine, Barran's, 669
Steam Engines, Loss of Power in (Letters), 675
Steam Engine, Lawrie's Improved, 696
Steam Engine, on a Regenerative, 379
Steam Engine, Siemens' Regenerative, 419
Steam Engines, Young's Improvements in, 561
Steam Frigate, Arrival at Southampton of an American, 348
Steam Gauge, Smith's, 615
Steam Games (Letters), 554, 586
Steam Navigation Company, the Dutch Royal, 338
Steam Navigation Company, the Express, 383
Steam Packing, 369
Steam Power to Agricultural Purposes, on the Application of, 607
Steamship Company, the New Australian, 3s9
Steamship, the Great Eastern, 570
Steamships of War, The New American, 563
Steam Towage on Canals, Progress of, 611
Steamer, the Isaac Newton, 419
Steamer, the Largest in the World, 419
Steamers to the Cape, a New Line of, 403
Steaming Extraordinary, 609
Steaming on the Murray, 680
Steel, the Austrian Atomic, 530
Steel, Uchatius' Improvements in, 562, 5"5, 587
Stereoscopic Experiment, 417
Stereoscopic Portraits, Motion in, 539
Stereotype, Important Invention In, 528
Stereotyping, New Process of, 426
Stevens' Improvements in Stoves, 620
Stone, Artificial, 472
Stoves, Stevens' Improved, 620
Strange Move, if True, a, 463
Strike, the, at Pembroke Dockyard, 389
Strike, the Shipwrights', 406, 482
Strike at Barnsley, the Colliers', 486
Streets, New, 402
Street Scavenging in Marylebone, 419
Streets formed of the Refuse of Gas and Chemical Works, 611
Stumps of Trees, Blasting the, 539
Sturge's Improvements in Rotary Fluid Meters. 621
Submarine Relief', •107
Submarine Telegraph, Atlantic, 516
Submerged Forest. A, 486
Suez Canal, 358 443
Sugar, Aspinall’s Machinery for Curing, Ste., 417
Sugar Inventions, Henry Bessemer's, 579
Suggestion. A, fur Liverpool (Note Book), 373
Summer, the, 419
Sun, Nothing Old under the, 415
Supply, Dumbarton Water, 369
Suspension of Fox, Henderson, and Co., 590
Sydney, 445
Switches, American Railway, 615
Symon's Improvements in the Suspension of Roasting Jacks, 4 t4
Synopsis of Railways in the United Kingdom, 495

Tariff, Unequal Railway, •109
Taylor's Improvement. iii Paddle wheels, 392
Telegraph, the Bombay, 424
Telegraph, Do we use the? 572
Telegraphic: Progress, 429
Teneriffe, Astronomical Expedition to, 571
Testimonial to Mr. Shirreff, 482
Thames Marshes, Drainage of the (Note Book), 685
Thames, the New Suspension Bridge over the, 392
Thames Towing and Lighterage Company (Note Book), 109
Theory of the Crank (Letter), by Tyro, 6 3
Theory of Heat, the New, 495
Things in General, a "Graduate's" Views on (Letter), 682
Thoroughfare, the Proposed New, 565
Tiles and Bricks, Nasmyth and Minton's, 651
Timber Bending Patent Company, 500
Timber Market, 365, 377, 389, 401, 413, 425, 453, 469, 481, 493, 505, 521, 533, 545, 557, 569, 581, 593, 616, 629, 641. 652, 664, 677, 689, 701
Tin, 494
Tin (Note Book), 386
Tin Trade, the, 691
" To our Readers," (Note Book), 697
Todd and Pinkney's Balance Pen, 405
Tolhausen's Improved Harvesting Machine, 540
Tolhausen's Watches and Timekeeper, 693
Tongue for Big Ben, A (Note Book), 614
Tooth Powders, 430
Tour in the Provinces, 356, 368, 460, 483, 526
Tour in Town, the Zinc Trade, 585
Towing on the Thames (Note Book), 386
Town Sewage, Deodorisation of (Note Rook), 697
Town Sewage and Drainage (Not.. Book), 673
Towns, Drainage of (Letters), 564$
Town 'fret's, 6u6
Towns, Sewage of, 466
Trade of Liege, 550
Trade, Morality of (Note Book), 385
Trade, the Tin, 691
Travelling Thrashing Machine, 618
Tree, the Mammoth, from California, 389
Trial of Mr. Bessemer's Invention, 4711
Trial of Clayton's Brick Machine, 660
Trial of Reaping Machines at Boxted Lodge, the, 446, 462
Trial of Ships' Knees, 461
Tunnelling the Thames, 398
Turkish Railways, 521
Tyne Shipbuilding, 622

Uchatius' Process for Cast Steel, 562, 365.557
Unequal Railway Tariffs (Note Book), 409
United States (the) Steam Frigate "Wabash." 696
Union Steam Collier Company, 611
Useful Inventions, 515

Valentine, Poster, and Haworth's Power Looms, 380
Valuable Machine, a, 539
Valve Motion, Improved, 499
Vanderbilt Line of Steam-ships, 380
Ventilation of all Buildings, 428
Vessels, New, 351
Victorian Railway Appointments, 494
Vulcanisation of India Rubber-From the "Mechanics Magazine," 574

Wages, Payment of, 613
Wages, Payment of (Lottery), 630, 6,31
Wagons, Francis' Metal, 506
Wall Papers, Choice of, 428
Wallace's Improvements in Bleaching and Washing Fabrics, 416, 576
Walker's Improvements in Safety Valve', 549
Walton and he Francois' Machinery for Cleaning Culinary Utensils, 496
Want of Labour in New South Vales, 666
War, the Late, 389
Ward's Improvements in Looms, 497
Warren's Improvements in Moulding and Shaping Glass, 416
Warsaw Waterworks, 619
Watches, &c., Tolhausen's, 693
Watchmaking Business, the, 690
Water Filter, improved, 485
Water Frame or Throstle the Inventor or, 324
Water, London (Note Book), 638
Water Meter, Siemens' and Adamson's, 537
Water Meter, Joplin's Improvement, 561
Waterspouts, Electricity the Cause of, 399
Water Supply, Dumbarton, 369
Water Supply, Metropolis, 639, 646
Water-wheel Improvement, 499
Waterworks, Bombay, Henry Conybeare, Engineer, 635
Weighing Machine at the General Post (Mice, 523
Weight of a Cubic Foot of Air, 413
well., French Process of Boring Artesian, 415
Western Australia, Copper In, 332

Westminster Bridge (Note Book),

502, 506, 511, 512,
Affair (Note Book), 517
New, 395, 423, 447, 506

Westminster Clock, 587
Westminster Improvements in Connexion with the Government Office Competition, 537
What is a Proper Water Gauge ? (Note Book), 673
What is wanted in Railways? 622
Wheels, Murray's Railway, 585
Wheels, Oxley's Machinery for, 463
Whishaw, C. E., Mr. Francis, 552
When the Electric Cable, 'cc.. 486
White Star Clipper " Merrie England," the New Australian, 538
White's (D. B.) Cylinder Pistons, 681
Whitewash on Skate, 399
Whitgreave's Locomotive Engine, 648
Whitgreave's Locomotive Engine (Letters to Editor), 662, 663, 675, 682, 69.1
Whitworth's Improvements in Artillery, 360
Whytock's Apparatus for Printing Yarns, 693
Williams, Mr , on Smoke, 451. 466
Wilson's, Tank Locomotive, 611
Wilton's. Furnace., 492
Wimshurst's Machinery' for Cutting Dovetails, , 19G
Windmills, Zahn and Wells' Improvements in, 372
Wire Cutter, Improved, 369
Woolwich, Experiment. at, 683
Workmen's Homes (Note Book), 639, 619
Works, Metropolitan Board of, 35$, 370, 391, 407, 41R, 410, 450, (Note Book): 538. 550, 562, 373, 587, 610, 622, 635, 617, 658, 682, 695
Works, Metropolitan Board of, Sir B. Hall and the, 610
Works, Accident at Her Majesty's Board of, 398
Wormwald's Machinery for Folding Fabrics, 536
Wrapping, the, of the Mummies, 473
Wright's Apparatus tor Lowering Ships' Boat., 6s1
Wright's Continuous Bedplate Iron Sleeper Roadway, 621

York's Safety Valve, 5-I9
Young's Improvements in Steam Engine, 54:,1

Zahn and Wells' Improvements in Windmills, 572

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