The Engineer 1866 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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Academy of Arts and Sciences, American, 470
Accident, Fearful Foundry, 403
Accident to a Goods Train, 480
Accident, Railway, 332
Accident on the Vale of Neath Railway, 312
Accident, The Welwyn, 438
Accidents in Factories, 317
Act, Telegraph Amendment, 314
Admiralty, Captain Coles and the, 71, log
Admiralty, Mr. Seely and the, 439
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, The, 42, 133, 154, 285, 406, 466
Agricultural Impfement Trade in Canada, 470
Agricultural Show, 432
Agricultural Society, The Royal, 408, 424
Ahmedabad Railway Station, 448
Albert Medal, The, 238
Albert Medal of the Society of Arts, 446
Algonquin and Winooski, The, 52
Allen Engine Diagrams, 185
Alloys, Manganese, 199
America, Oui* Commercial Relations with, 30
American Navy, The, 7, 20
American Ordnance, 53, 65
Anchor, Patent, Trotman’s, 236, 310
Anchors for the Navy, New, 66
Ansell’s Indicator, 15, 26, 46, 87, 106, 285
Antiquitj0Sj Engineering, 453
t^wectural Physiology.'Principles of, 318
t^iteoture of Bridges, 315
a akThe Constance, Octavia, and, 199
Arn-i^«r’ 9Q Resistance of Ships’, 463
Armour-plate Fastenings, 310
Armour-plates, 65, 87
Armour Plates, Brown’s, 44
Armour Plates, Testing, 102
Artillery, Fren ch Naval, 106
Armstrong Gun in the Navy, 271
Armstrong’s Water Pressure Machinery, Sir W. G., 233, 249, 379
Ash croft’s Baling Press, 28
Assessors, Scientific, 299
Association of Engineering Managers and Draughtsmen, 403
Association of Engine and Machine Makers, 289
Association of Foremen Engineers, London, 32, 102, 141, 277, 336. 412
Association of Gas Managers, British, 378, 396, 411 Association, Manchester Boiler, 132, 248, 328, 430 Association, Manchester Patent Law Reform, 238 Association, Staffordshire Coal and Ironmasters, 272 Association, United States Iron Manufacturers. 4 Association for Preventing Boiler Explosions, 217
Astronomical Society. The Royal, 67
Atlantic Cable, The, 45, 79, 399, 473, 480
Atlantic Cable, Insurance on the, 130
Atlantic Cable, Receiving Apparatus of the, 447
Atlantic Cable, Transmitting Apparatus for the, 433 Atlantic Telegraph, The, 174, 181, 183
Atlantic Telegraph Route, The Great North , 146 Atlantic Telegraph Scheme, The New, 100 Auckland, First Locomotive in, 482
Bailey’s Fusible Plugs, 123
Ball’s Sheep Shears, 14
Bath and West of Engand Show, 409
Bath, and West of England Society, 419
Beams, Effects of Sudden Loads on, 232
Belgium, 363
Bellerophon, The, 80, 284
Bellerophon and Lord Warden Targets, 227
Bellerophon in Stokes Bay, The, 217
Bellerophon, Trial of the, 206, 219
Bellerophon’s Funnels, 254
Bellows, Bowden’s, 158
Berlin, New Parliament House for, 112
Bessemer Cast Steel, 'the Strength of, 300
Bessemer Process, Notes on the, 474
Bessemer Process, Spectrum Analysis in the, 206
Bessemer Rails, Price of, 49
Bessemer Steel Tires, 91
Bill, the Engineering Operatives, Reform, 244
Bill, Government Waterworks, 307
Bill, Railway Passengers Communication, 309
Bill, The Waterworks. 470
Bills, Extraordinary Clauses in Railway, 143
Bills, Notes on Private, 91, 111, 128, 165, 183, 202, 218, 236
Bills, Railway, 327
Blowing Off, 381
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s Register, v. the, 361
Board of Trade, The New President of the, 466
Boiler Association, Manchester, 132
Boiler, A Collapsed, 141
Boiler, The Collapsed, 179
Boiler Inspection in Calcutta, 128
Boiler Insurance Company, The Midland Steam, 191
Boiler Insurance Company, The National, 72
Boilers, Corrosion of Locomotive, 341
I Boilers at Home, Cornish, 199
- Boilers of the Houses of Parliament, 284
| Boilers, Incrustation in Marine, 354, 372
I Boilers, Marine, 362
Boilers by Unequal Expansion, Destruction of, 65
Bolts, Holding Down, 67
Bombay Builder, The, 147
Book of Reference, Gas Engineer’s, 154
Boulton and Watt’s First Marine Engine, 87
Bovill v. Goodier, 282, 308, 416
Bovill v. the Millers of Great Britain, 64
Bovill’s Patent, 341
Bowden’s Bellows, 158
Bow, The Plough Coulter, 316, 333
Breakwater for Torbay, Proposed, 88
Brean Down Harbour, The, 80
Brecon and Merthyr Railway, Sandboxes on the, 33
Bridge of Boats, 154
Bridge Building Expeditions, 67
Bridge at Prague, 802
Bridge, Purchase of Southwark, 448
Bridge on Fire, Railway, 386
Bridge, The Runcorn, 473
Bridge Susquehanna Railway, 233
Bridge, The Sutton, 340
Bridge at Sutton, Fall of a, 317
Bridges, Architecture of, 315
Bridges and Loads Suddenly Applied, Railway, 340
Bridges of Small Span. On Railway, 339
Brown and Wilson’s Travellers, 435
Brown’s Armour Plates, 44
Brussels, Musee de 1’Industrie at, 276
Building in Paris, 252
Cable, The Atlantic, 45, 399, 473, 480
Cable, Insurance on the Atlantic, 130
Cables, On the Forces Concerned in Laying and
Lifting Deep-sea, 209
Cables, Relative Strength of, 15
Cables, Submersion of Telegraph, 215
Cables, Telegraph, 26, 45, 66
Cadiz, Geography at, 480
Calcutta, Boiler Inspection in, 128
Callao, Guns at, 437
Callao, The Spanish Fleet at, 446
Cammell and Co., C., 470
Canada, Agricultural Implement Trade in, 470
Canal, The Cavour, 318
Canal, The Niagara Ship, 253
Canal, The Suez, 298
Carolina, Engineering Works of South, 448
Carriage, Competition Gun, 154
Carriage, Compressor’s Gun, 196
Carriages, Competitive Gun, 89,233, 260, 361, 397
Carriages, Effects of Shot on Gun, 465
Carriages, Gun, 243, 438
Carriages for the Navy, Gun, 383
Cartridges, Lancaster’s, 65
Cathedral, Restoration of St. David’s, 428
Cattle Plague and Mechanical Inventors, The, 120
Cement, Portland, 239, 267
Cenis Railway, The Mont, 71
Centrifugal Fans, 110
Centrifugal Fans and Pumps, 182, 279
Centrifugal Pumps, 142, 161, 304, 417
Chaff Cutter, Richmond and Chandler’s, 410
Chain Cable Proving, 346
Chain Cable and Anchors, Testing, 435
Chalmers’ Shield, 6
Chattanooga, Machinery of the, 136
Chicago, Artesian Wells of, 206
Chimney Cap, The Trisyphon, 213
Ching’s Fluid Valves, 104
Chronograph, The, 368
Cigar Ship. The, 135, 147,153, 171
Civil Engineers of France, Society of :
President’s Address, 61
Calculating Girders, by M. Contamin, 86, 124, 173
Civil Engineers of Ireland, Institution of :
President’s Address, 148, 166, 184
Clark's Combustion Pupip, 7
Clerkenwell Boiler Explosion, 199
Clocks, Electro-Magnetic, 272
Coal Abroad, 325
Coal in America, 141
Coal Areas, Superficial. 349
Coal for Atlantic Steamers, 322
Coal Beds, Exhaustion of our, 314
Coal Bunkers, Steamship, 91
Coal in China. 359
Coal Company, The Preserved, 136
Coal in Denmark, 208
Coalfield, The Leinster, 297
Coalfield in Yorkshire, 368
Coalfields, Brazilian, 140
Coal in France 79
Coal and Gas, 390
Coal in Greece, 80
Coal Mines. Rating of, 132
Coal Tip, Hydraulic, 125
Coal Supply. Our, 346, 439
Coal Trade, Welsh and Birkenhead, 104
Coal Trade, Metropolitan, 31
Coinage for Jersey, New, ‘406
Coles and the Admiralty, Captain, 71, 109
Coles, Captain, 244
Collieries, Employment of Girls at, 210
Colliery Proprietors, Action against, 224
Collisions on the Tyne and Wear, 371
Combustibles, Gedge’s, 53
Combustion of Gas, Dr. Letheby on, 447
Combustion of Fuel, Necessity for the Direct Utilisation of the Force evolved in the, 147
Commission on the British Coalfields, 466
Commission, The Railway, 71
Commission, The Rivers, 345
Communication in Trains, 309
Companies, More and More, 47
Compass, Deviation of the, 368
Compass Deviation, Attempts to Prevent, 469
Compass Equipment of Merchant Ships, Government
Control over the, 70, 87
Compasses of Iron Ships, The, 127
Compression, Heating Air by, 106
Conciliation between Masters and Men, 309
Concrete Mixer, Ridley’s, 357
Constance, Octavia, and Arethusa, The, 199
Constructive Details, Government Interference with, 201
Copper Mines in Canada, 272
Copper Mining at the Cape, 228
Copper Trade, The, 421
Coroners, Scientific Aid to, 206
Craigellachie Viaduct, The, 99
Creusot Works, The, 446
Crewe Works, The, 84, 107, 122, 176
Crewe Works, The Duke of Edinburgh at, 446
Crossness Pumping Station, The, 465
Cupola Vessels, a Contribution to the History of, 338
Cupolas, Hoists for, 176
Curves, Ranging Railway, 446
Curves by Theodolite and Chain, Ranging, 403, 416
Cycloscope, The, 415
Cylinders, Steam, 206
“Dalston” Hydro-carbon Lamp, The, 104
Dangerous Goods, Carriage of, 439
Dauglish, Death of Dr., 56
Deaths
Burton, H. M., 203
Brande, W. T., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c,, 129
Bright, Hugh Meyler, 52
Daglish, C.E., Esq., 31
Dauglish, Dr., 56
Debenham, C. E., John, 72
Dinnen, John, 31
England, Henry, 72
J Gravatt, W., O.E., F.R.S., &c., 421
Grose, S., 470
Holt, Margaret, 203
Lockett, Alice, 72
Nicholson, John, 421
Peel, Joseph, J. P., D.L., 457
Rennie, Mr. George, 252
Scott, C. A.,C.E„ 166
Tate, George, C.E., 166
Truss, T., C.E., 129
Williams, C. Wye, 252
Denmark, Coal in, 208
Design for a Twin Screw Frigate, 265
Dictator, The, 320
Dock, Hydraulic Lift, Graving, 179
Doe Park and Grimwith Reservoirs, 303
Drainage of London, Main, 9, 33
Drainage of the Metropolis, Main, 219
Drilling Machine, American Rock, 283
Dublin Exhibition, The, 161
Eclipse of the Sun, 32
Education in England, Scientific, 70
Elder, Memoir of the late Mr. David, 256
Eider, Mr. Napier’s Memoir of Mr. D.» 403
Elder’s Steering Gear, 395
Electrical Apparatus, New, 328
Electricity, Great Prize in Voltaic, 368
Electricity, Inventions in, 344
Electricity, Novelties in. 435
Electricity, A Splendid Discovery in, 338
Electio-Magnetic Machine. New. 417
Electro-Telegraphy and Electrical Science 29
Embankment. The Thames, 9, 235, 285 290
Emery. Substitute for, 285 ’
E . ploy^s, The Railway, 67
Engine for Bombay, Steam, 276
Engine, Boulton and Watt’s First Marine, 87
Engine, Chasing a Railway, 2
Engine, Ericsson’s, 283
Engine, The Lenoir Gas, 357
Engine and Machine Makers, 289
Engine, Maudslay and Field’s Throe-Cylinder, 7
Engine, Something Like an, 434
Engine, Steam Fire. 199
Engine, Trial of a Steam Fire, 91
Engineering, American Naval, 402
Engineering, Experimental Researches in, 409
Engineering Facts and Figures, 345
Engineering and Geology, 400
Engineering, Modern Marine, 129, 409
Engineering, The Picturesque in, 432
Engineering Qualifications, 13, 15
Engineering, Recent Novelties in Marine, 79
Engineering Trades in France, Progress of, 15
Engineers’ Book of Reference, Gas, 154
Engineers for India, 326
Engineers, Meeting of, 154
Engineers, Naval, 136, 220
Engineers, Paris Society of Civil, 4
Engineers, The Royal, 321
Engineers, Royal Naval, 24, 161,174, 480
Engines, Aveling and Porter’s Traction, 212
Engines, Best Point of Cut-off in Marine, 2S5
Engines. Bogie, 47, 66
Engine Diagrams, Allen’s, 185
Engines, Desirable Point of Cut off in Steam, 273
Engines, Ericsson’s, 415, 435, 453
Engines, Exports of Steam, 161
Engines, High Speed Marine, 374, 403, 416
Engines, Howard’s Agricultural, 64
Engines, Locomotive. 403
Engines of the Lord Warden, 474
Engines, Marine, 416
Engines on North London Railway, 24
Engines on the North London Railway, Standard, 163
Engines, Portab'e, 305, 437
Engines, Portable Steam. 323
Engines, Ramsbottom’s Water-pressure, 323
Engines, Value of Steam, 289
England, The Future of New, 446
Ericsson’s Engine, 283
Erie, Current in Lake, 417
Eruption, The Santorin, 246
Europe and America, Intercourse between, 233
Examples of Modern Mining Machinery :
Ore Separating Machine, by Harvey and Co., 450
Exhibition, The Anglo-French, 199
Exhibition, The Dublin, 161
Exhibition, The Engineering, 390
Exhibition, The Intercolonial, 482
Exhibition, Melbourne Intercolonial, 285
Exhibition, The Paris Contract, 351
Exhibition of 1867, The Paris, 42, 49, 99, 238, 271, 319
Exhibition, The Paris :
Radial Sectional Elevation, 253
Details of Intermediate Galleries, 359, 451
Details of Trough Girders, 376
Exhibition, A Postponement of the Paris, 383
Exhibition, The Stockholm, 20
Exhibition and Working Men. The Paris, 194
Expanding Steam. Graphic Method of Finding the
Mean Pressure of, 261
Expansion in Engines, Economical Rates of, 248
Explosion, Another Colliery, 78
Explosion at a Blast Furnace, 56
Explosion, Boiler, 243
Explosion in Clerkenwell. Boiler, 199
Explosion, The Gethin Colliery, 19
Explosion, The Wheal Uny, 428
Explosions, Association for Preventing Boiler, 217
Explosive Materials for Mining and Quarrying, 173,
191
Exports of Iron, 388
Exports of Machinery, 341
Exports of Steam Engines, 161
Fall of the Manchester Railway Station, 112 130
Fan, The Rotating, 208
Fan, Schiele s New, 196
Fans, Centrifugal, 110
Fans and Pumps, Centrifugal, 182, 279
Faraday, Dr., 206
Fenby’s Lock, 391
File Company, The Birmingham Patent, 212
Filings, Iron and Steel, 383
Fire Brigade, The Metropolitan, 51, 285
Fire Engines, Relative Cost of Steam and Manual. 311
Fira Engines, Steam, 132,199
Fire Machinery, Ramsbottom’s, 468
Fire at St. Katharine’s Docks, 4
Fires and Fire Engines, 389
Fish Joint, A Russian, 280
Flue Collapse, Another, 283
Foreign and Colonial Jottings, 7, 80, 102, 238
Foreign Science, 4, 22, 82, 198, 284,393, 412 464
Fortifying British Ports, Expenses of, 448 ’
Forts, Iron, 12
Frames in Shipbuilding, A Proposed Method of Bevel
ling Iron, 31
Frames, Twisting Ships’, 46, 65, 87
France, Progress of Engineering Trades in. 15
France, Spirits in, 102
Fraser Gun, The, 203
Friction of Leather Collars, Mr. Hick’s Experiments
Oil, ol/o
Frigate, How to Plate a, 148
Frigate. Twin Screw, 265
Fuel, Estimation of the Evaporative Power of. 316
Fuel. Evaporative Power of, 358
Furnace at Meux’s Brewery, Juckes*, 432
Furnaces, Juckes’and Swiubourne’s ’122
Fuse, The New, 140
Gale’s Protected Gunpowder, 446
Gamble’s Salinometer, 353
Gas Companies, The London, 382
Gas Measuring, 344
Gasholder Explode ? Can a, 4
Gasworks Question, The, 299
Ganges Canal. The, 282, 805, 333
Gear, King, Smith and Howell’s Reversing, 47
Gedge s Combustibles, 53
Geological Tables, 272
Geology and Engineering, 400
Geometrician, The Young, 237
Girders in France, Lattice, 297
Girders, Rolled v. Plate, 285
Girders, Weight of, 315
Glasgow, University of, 316
Glass, The Constructive Strength of. 27
Gorton Foundry, The, 341
Gorton Foundry, The Strike at the, 317
Government Interference with Constructive Details,
Grain, Decorticating, 88
Granite Works, Aberdeen, 246
Grate, Ventilating, 141
Gresham’s Injectors, 45
Griffith’s Oil Gas Retorts, 356
Grose. Death of Mr. S., 470
Gun Carriages, Competitive, 89
Gun Carriage Compressors, 196
Gun, The Eraser, 203
Gun, The Mackay, 299
Gun in the Navy, Armstrong. 271
Gun, The 7-in. Palliser, 304
Gun, The 600-pounder, 248
Ml“otaur, Competitive 230
Gunpowder, Gale’s Protected 471 ’ 9
Guns, Armstrong, 408
Guns, The Construction of 374
Gun’s Endurance. Test of, 358
Guns, Krupp’s Breech-loading, 25
Guns by Machinery, Working, 140
Guns, 7m., 323 b’
Guns, True Story of the, 439
Guns v. Turrets, 455
Guns, The Woolwich, 471
Guns at Woolwich, New System of Manufacturing,
Guns, Working Heavy, 201
Guns, Working Heavy Naval, 227
Hall of Science and Art, The Central, 320
Harbour Works, The Capetown, 446
Harbour Works Natal, 450
Hart’s Affixing Labels, 32
Hatches, Engine Room. 50.Ml, 2/ *
Haulage, Underground, 298 -
Heating Air by Compression 10
Helicon and Salamis Bows, 2.7
Herbert Hospital at Woolwich 89
Hick’s Experiments on uncuou in
Mr., 393 1O1
Highway, Steam on the, Ibi
Hoist, A Rteam, 208
Hol born Valley Viaduct, The, oil
Holiday’s Blocking Tires 88
Hong-Kong Mint, The, 320
Horticultural Exhibition, International, 370
Hospital at Woolwich, The Herbert, 89
Howard’s Agricultural Engines, 64
HumbeOr^%n°Shipbuilding on the, 4
Hydraulic Power to Mountain Railways, Application of, 51 , __
Hydraulic Presses, Whition s,
Hydraulic Propellers, 403
Ice and Glaciers, 21
Imports and Exports, 170
Incrustations, Boiler, 67, 92
India, Communication with, 164
India, Engineers for, 326
India, Irrigation Works in, 379
India, Strength of Timber m Western, 160, 371
India, Telegraph to. 308
Indian Railways in 1865, 3, 42
Indian Tramway Company, 246
Indicator, Ansell’s, 15. 26, 46, 87, 106, 28o
Indicator, Richards’, 132 . ___
Inductive Resistance in Materials for the Insulation of Submarine Telegraph Wire, On the Commercial Importance of the Property of, 39, 66
Injectors, Gresham’s, 45
Instruments, On Mathematical. 315
Insulation of Submarine Telegraph Wires, 111
Institution of Civil Engineers :
CraigeHachie Viaduct, by W. H. Mills. 99
Designing Railway Stations, by W. Humber, 138
Dinner at Willis’s Rooms. 336
Election, 52, 102, ISO, 262, 332, 368
Exhibition, Engineering, 390
Hydraulic Lift Graving Dock, by E. Clark, 179
Mauritius Railway, Grand River Viaduct, by W.
Ridley, 99
Permanent Way, Maintenance of, R. P. Williams, 233
President’s Address, 21, 40
Rolling Stock, Maintenance of, T. A. Rochussen, 316
Water Supply of Paris, by G. R. Burnell, 353
Institution of Engineers in Scotland. 161
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 54 :
Corrosion of Locomotive Boilers, by W. Kirtley, 341 Improved Chronometric Governor, by C. W.
Siemens, 87
New Lock and Key, J. B. Fenby, 341
New Rule. 112
Patent Screw Propeller, by A. J. Rigg, jun., 93
Wrought Iron Turntable, by W. Baines, 87
Institute of Naval Architects :
Bellerophon and Lord Warden Targets, by E. J.
Reed, 227
Expansion in Steam Engines, Economical Rates of, W. J. M. Rankine, 218
Frigate, Twin Screw, by Captain Symonds, 265
Helicon and Salamis, The Bows of the, by Rev. J.
Woolley, 227
Norway, Shipbuilding in, by A. Dekke, 228
Ordnance, Carrying Heavy, by Captain Scott, 230
Propellers, Apparent Negative Slip with Screw, E.
J. Reed, 228
Rudder, A Balanced, W. J. M. Rankine. 245
Ships, The Security of Iron, by W. Fairbairn. 239
Turret Ships, The American System of, J. Bourne, 228
Twin Screw System, Present and Future of the, by Captain Symonds, 227
Ventilating Steamships, by M. Baker, 228
Working Large Naval Guns, J. C. Wilson, 227
Inventions, Origin of some Mechanical, 26
Inventors. The Cattle Plague and Mechanical, 120
Ireland Fishery, Piers and Harbours, 371
Ireland, Postal Communication with, 403
Ireland, Railway Reform in, 403
Iron, British v. Swedish, 456
Iron into Cast Steel, Conversion of Cast, 228
Iron-clad Ships, 209
Iron-clad Ships in Action, 471
Iron-clads, Our, 210
Iron-clads, Cleaning, 455
Iron-clads, The First Cost of our, 322
Iron with Copper Coating, 291
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, <fcc.. 19. 37, 57, 77, 97,117, 133,150, 169, 189, 207, 225, 243, 259, 277, 295, 313, 331, 349, 369, 387, 407, 425, 443, 461, 481
Insurance Company, The National Boiler, 72
Iron, Imports and Exports of, 91
Iron-making Machinery in South Staffordshire, 2
Iron-making in the States, 267
Iron Manufacture, 78
Iron, New Method of Rolling, 27
Ironsand, Titanic, 106
Iron, Scotch Pig, 7
Iron Shipbuilding on the Humber, 4
Iron and Wagon Company (Limited), The North-Eastern, 332
Iron v. Wood, 448
Irrigation Works in India, 379
Japan, Coal and Timber in, 203
Jersey City, The way Steel is Made in, 82
Johnson’s Ordnance, 14
Juckes’ Furnace, 432
Juckes and Swinburne’s Furnaces, 122
Kensington, Intended Central Hall at South, 176
Kew Observatory, The, 137, 159
Kilns, Brick, 212
King, Smith, and Howell’s Reversing Gear 47
Kirkless Coal Experiments, 428
Krupp’s Brceeh-loading Guns, 25
Labels, Hart’s Affixing, 32
Labour Test, 185
Lambton Oil Works, 454
Lamp, The “ Dalston,” 104
Lamp, The Muesler Safety, 356
Lancaster’s Cartridges, 65
Landslips, 475
Launch at Millwall,
Launch of the Steamship Surat, 213 Law Intelligence :—
Penn v. Jack, Penn v. Birby, Penn r. Fernie 3*8
Bovill v. Goodier, 308, 416 ‘ ’
Law Courts, Ventilation of the London, 220
Leading Articles:—
Accident, The Welwyn, 438
Admiralty, Captain Coles and the, 71,109
Admiralty. Mr. Seely, M.P., and the, 439
America. Our Commercial Relations with 30
Anchor, Trotman’s Patent, 236, 310
Architecture of Bridges. 315
Armstrong Gun in the Navy. 271
Association of Engine and Machine Makers 280
Association for Preventing Boiler Explosions, &o.,
Atlantic Cable, The, 181, 399 473
B^‘n?weg[ra,:VO?tei’lhe Great North, 14C
Bath and West of England Society, 420
Bellerophon Funnels, The. 254
Bellerophon in Stokes Bay, The, 217
Bessemer Process, Notes on the, 474
Bessemer Rails, Price of, 49
Leading Articles:
Bill, Railway Passengers’and Guards’ Communication, 309
Bill. The Government Waterworks, 307
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s Register r., 361
Board of Trade Storm Signals, 372
Blowing off, 381 *
Boiler Inspection in Calcutta, 128
Boilers. Marine, 363
Bovill v. Goodier, 308
Bow The Plough Coulter, 333
Bridge, The Runcorn, 473
Bridges, Architecture of. 315
Broadside v. Turret Ships, 11
Cable The Atlantic, 399, 473
Calcutta, Boiler Inspection in, 128
Callao, Rifled Guns at. 437
Canal, The Niagara Ship, 253
Carriages, Competitive Gun, 89, 361, 393
Carriage of Dangerous Goods, 439
Carriages, Gun, 438
Cenis Railway, The Mont, 71
Cigar Ship, The, 135, 153, 171
Coal Trade, Metropolitan, 31
Coal Abroad, 325
Coles and the Admiralty, Captain, 71, 109
Commission, The Railway. 71
Commission, the Rivers’, 345
Compass-equipment of Merchant Ships, Government
Control over, 70
Compass of Iron Ships, 127
Competitive Gun Carriages, 89, 361, 398
Conductors, Ou Lightning, 261
Continental Ratos of Workmen’s Wages, 2S7
Counter-weighting Machinery, 127
Depolarisation of Iron Ships, 219
Disasters, Marine, 71
Doe Park and Grimwith Reservoirs. The, 303
Drainage of the Metropolis, Main, 219
Dwellings, Labourers, Proposed Legislation, 133
Education in England, Scientific, 70
Electricity, Invention in, 344
Embankment, The Thames, 235, 290
Engineering Qualifications. 13
Engineering, Recent Novelties in Marine, <9
Engineers for India, 326
Engines of the Lord Warden, 4,4
Engines on the North-London Railway, 163
Engines, Portable, 437
Engines, Value of Steam, 2S9
Exhibition of 1867, The Paris. 49
Explosive Materials for Mining and Quarrying, 173, 191
Fans, Centrifugal, 110, 182, 279
Fire Brigade. Metropolitan, 51
Forts, Iron, 12
Franco. Lattice Girders in, 297
Fuel. Ou the Economic Necessity for the Direct Utilisation of the Force Evolved iu the Combustion of, 140
Funnels, The Bellerophon, 254
Gas Companies, The London, 382
Gas. Measuring, 344
Geology and Engineering, 400
Government Interference with Constructive Details, 201
Girders in France, Lattice, 297
Girders, Rolled v. Plate, 235
Gun Carriages, 438
Guns, The True Story of the. 439
Guns at Callao, Rifled, 437
Guns v. Turrets, 455
Guns at Woolwich, The New System of Manufacturing, 445
Guns, Working Heavy, 201
Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, 89
Highway, Steam on the, 181
Hydraulic Testing Machines, 400
India, Engineers for, 326
India, Communication with, 164
India, The Telegraph to, 308
Indian Railways in 1865, 3, 42
Inductive Resistance in Materials for the Insulation of Submarine Telegraph Wire, on the Commercial Importance of the Property of Specific, 39
Insulation of Submarine Telegraphs, 111
Iron, British v. Swedish, 456
Ironclads, Cleaning the Bottoms of Cruising, 455
Iron, Imports and Exports of, 91
Land-slips, 475
Legislation, Labourers’ Dwellings Proposed, 183
Legislation in Regard to the Construction, &c., of
Steam Ships. Modern. 145
Lightning Conductors, On, 261
Lloyd’s Register v. the Board of Trade, 361
Locomotive, Colossal, 69
Locomotives, Heavy Goods, 11
London Gas Companies, 382
London, Loss of the, 90
London Traffic, 327
Lord Warden, Engines of the, 474
Manchester Railway Station, Fall of the, 112
Marine Engine Shafts, 382
Masters and Men, Councils of Conciliation between, 309
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 51
Metropolitan Railway, 31
Miantouomoh, The, 457
Mills, Rolling, 29 •
Millstones, Ventilation of, 164
Monitors, 419
Mythoi me Viaduct, The, 69
Navy, Armstrong Gun in the, 271
Niagara Ship Canal, The, 253
Northumberland, The, 253, 287
Notes on the Bessemer Process, 474
Novelties in Marine Engineering, Recent, 79
Oil Coal, 456
Ordnance, 269
Pallas, The, 307
Patent Laws, Last Debate on the, 270
Patent Office Inquiry, Final Report on the, 59
Patents, New Journal of the Commissioners of, 290
Paris Exhibition of 1867, The, 49
Peat, Compressed. 227
Permanent Way, 371
Pile-cutting Machinery, 343
Plough Coulter Bow, The, 333
Pressure Liquid, 12
Private Bills, 91 111, 128, 165,183, 202, 219, 237, 271, 327, 363, 420. 476
Professional Qualifications, 218
Propeller, Ruthven’s, Hydraulic, 270
Qualifications, Engineering, 13
Qualifications, Professional, 218
Rail and Wheel. 145
Rails, Price of Bessemer, 49
Railway Engines on the North, 163
Railway, Metropolitan, 31
Railway, The Mont Cenis, 71
Railway, The Venezuela, 288
Railways, Application of Hydraulic Power to the
Working of Mountain, 51
Railway, Economy of Underground, 245
Railways in 1865, Indian, 3, 42
Reservoirs, The Doe Park andGrimwitb, 303
Rivetting Machine, Portable Steam, 109
Road-making in Turkey, 352
Runcorn Bridge, The, 473
Ruthven’s Hydraulic Propeller. 270
Seely, M.P., and the Admiralty, Mr., 439
Shafts, Marine Engines, 382
Shipwreck by Rule, 236
Ships, Broadside and Turret, 11
Ship, The Cigar, 135, 153, 171
Ships, Depolarisation of Iron, 219
Ships, Iron-clad, 209
Ships. Unarmoured, 325
Signals Board of Trade Storm, 372
Smoke, 381
Specffications, Construction of, 182
Steamers, Registered Tonnage of, 254 , 362
Story of the Guns. The True, 439
Street Railways, 99
Leading Articles:
Telegraph to India, The, 308
Telegraphs, Insulation of Submarine. Ill
Telegraphy and Electrical Science, Electro 29
Telegraphy, Rise and Progiess «»t, 119
Testing Guns at Woolwich, 419
Testing Machines. Hydraulic, 400
Thames Embankment, The, 135, 290
Theory and Practice, 427
Tonnage of Steamers, Registered, 254 362
Trade, Metropolitan Coal, 31
Traffic, Goods, 287
Traffic, London, 327
Trains, Comtnunication iu Railway 237
Tramways. 31 ’ “
Tut key. Road-making in, 352
Variable 8ta-0 In the Distribution of tho Static Chargo of Telegraph Conductors, 463 6
Venezuela Railway, 288
Ventilation of Millstones, 164
Viaduct, The Mytholmc, 62
Wages Continental Rates of Workmen’s 287
Watot works Bill, The Government, 307 >
Weighting Machinery, Counter, 127
Welwyn Accident, The, 438
Wheel and Rail, 145
Woolwich, Herbert Hospital at 89
Woolwich. The Now System of Manufacturing Guns at, 44o °
Woolwich, Testing Guns at, 419
W orking Heavy Guns, 201
Legislation in Regard to the Construction, &c., of steamships. Modern, 155. 177
Legislation in Regard to the Construction and Equipment of Steamships, Modern, 145
Legislation in Technical Matters, 79
Legislative Reform in Technical Affidra. 132
Lenoir Gas Engine, 357
liens, The New Stcinheil, 197
Letters to the Editor:—
Air in Pipes, Velocity of, T.C., 127
Ansell’s Indicator, G. F. Ansell, 15, 46, 166
Angells Indicator, Civil Engineer and Colliery Manager, 26, 87
Ansell’s Indicator, N. J., 15, 48, 106
Armour Plates, J. Chalmers, 65
Armour Plates, T. W. Plum, 65, 87
Association of Gas Managers. F. H. Methven, 419
Beams, Effect of Sudden Loads on, W. J. Al. Rankine, 232
Belleropbon, The, C., 284
Boats, Endless Chain (’anal, Sugar, 49
Boats, Endless Chain Canal. B.O.W., 69
Boiler, The Collapsed, W. Shawcross, 179
Boulton and Watt’s First Marino Engine, S. Dart on, 8i
Bovill’s Patent, A Millwright, 341
Bridge, The Sutton, R. J. Hood, 340
Bridges and Ix^ads Suddenly Applied, R. Gill, 340
Britain, The Great, Wilfred, 217
Cable, The Atlantic, An Observer, 45
Cables, Telegraph. J. Macintosh, 26
Cable, Telegraph, T.,
Cables, Telegraph, T. M., 66, 45
Cables, Telegraph, Progress. 45
Cables, Relative Strength of, Amateur, 15
Caissons Sliding, A. C., 145
Castings, Cleaning, C. K., 253
Casts, Taking, Query, 69
Clocks, Electrical, T. Lewis, 361
Clocks. Electrical, A Regular Subscriber, 399
Coal-cutting Machines, Power for Working, A. B., 361
Commercial Importance of the Property of Specific Inductive Resistance, &c., W. Hooper, 66
Compass Equipment of Merchant Ships, H. J. Mudge, 87
Concrete Mixer, J. J. B., 399
Cotton Unginned, Achilles, 419
Crewe Work, R. Allison, 127
Curves by Theodolite and Chain,Ranging, W. J. M. Rankine, 403
Cut-off in Steam Engines. E. E. Allen, 273, 285
Dalston Lamp, The, H. Wilson, 127
Diplomas, Engineering, A. AL, 1C3
Diplomas, Engineering, W. J. AL Rankine, 181
Elder, Mr. Napier’s, Memoir of Mr. D., Vindex, 403
Engineering Qualifications, Contractors’ Engineers, 15
Engineers in Scotland, Institution of, W. J. AL Rankine, 161
Engines, Bogie, W. B. Adams, 66, 47
Ericsson’s Engines, J. Bourne, 453
Ericsson’s Engines, G. H. Phipps. 307. 434
Engines for Marine Purposes, High Speed, J. B , 403
Engines for Marine Purposes, High Speed, J. G.
Winton, 358
Engines, North-London, T. Hunt, 181
Engines, Portable Steam, A Proprietor of Portable Engines, 323
Engines, Water-pressure, W. P., 109
Exhibition, Alelbourue Intercolonial, J. W. Wright, 285
Fans in Cotton Al ills, Exhaust, Exhaust Fan, 163
Fire-boxes, Steel, J. D. W., 307
Frames, Twisting Ships’, A. Alexander, 46
Frames, Twisting Ships’, Frame, 65
Frames, Twisting Ships’, W. J. Al. Rankine, 87
Franklin Frock, R. H. D.,181
Fuel, Evaporative Power of, W. J. Al. Rankinc. 358
Fuel, Evaporative Value of, C., 343
Gale’s Protected Gunpowder, A. B., 471
Gun’s Endurance, Test of, P. AL Parsons, 358
Guns, 7-inch, Ferrum Ductilis, 323, 374
Guns, 7-inch, W. Palliser, 323
Guns, the Woolwich, J. P., 471
Gutta-percha. Silvering, J. C., 287
Hurd Metal, G. K. G , 1(>9
Hatches, Engine-room, An Old Sailor 273
Hatches, Engine-room, J. H. Ridley, 161
Healing Air by Compression, W. J. AL Rankinc, 106 .
Heating Rods, Heating, 109
Hodgson’s Decks,. E. D. Hodgson, 235
Incrustation in Portable Boilers, Inquirer, 307
India-rubber, Compressing Vulcanised, It. C., 253 Injector, The, Omega. 325
Iron-Making Alachinery in Staffordshire, E. More-wood, 29
Kilns, Hoffman’s, H. Chamberlain, 343
Lifeboats, Vaughan and Deacon, 142
Lifeboats, Steam, G. Watson, 199
Locomotives, Heavy, J. Desbrier, 106
London, Loss of the, A. W., 214
London, Loss of the, G. Watson, 106
Lubricators. T. S., 11
Microscopes, Oxy hydrogen, K. K, K., 109
Alills, Coke-grinding, J. E., 163
Millstones, Ventilating, J. Pinchbeck, 434
Monitors, Al. I. C. IS., 434
Needle Pointing, H. Walker, 87
Netting Machines, C. K. S., 419
Navy, Engineers in the, W. D. A., 69
Old Times, J. R., 250
Ordnance, A Practical Gunner, 284
Ordnance, American, A. Gearing, 65
Pallia r Gun, \V. Palliser, 361
Paraffin, Extracting, AL, 145
Patent Right, H. N. Crellin, jun., 471
Peat, Compressing, Gwynne and Co., 434
Peat, Compressing, C. Hodgson, 358
Peat Fuel, Gwynne and Co., 250
Petroleum from Coal, W. P., 269
Petroleum Lamps, Petro, 307
Pile Cutting Alachinery, E. Elliott, 361
File Cutting Alachinery, T. Quarm, 358
Pile Cutting Machinery, T. D. Ridley, 403
1 ile Driving Machinery, O’. F., 181
Pipes, Bitumenised Paper, W. M. Parker, 69
Presses. Hydraulic Brick, M. F., 109
•Pro er brings Patent, The Bcrew, W.‘Spence, vOo
Propeller, Rigg’s, c., 26, 125, 178
Letters to the Editor •
Propeller, Rigg’s, G. II. 142
Propeller, Rigg’s G. H. Phipps, 106 I rope er, Rigg’s, A. Rigg, jiJ, ’ 1(J.
Propeller, Ruthven’s, GWynne and Co 348 Propeller, Ruthven’s, W. Parfitt
Propellers, Hydranli’c. Gwxnnand Cn Propeller, Hydraulic, W. PaifRL 35^ °” 3°S Propellers, Hydraulic, J. Young, 340, 403 Propellers, Screw, C., 358 453 *
Propulsion, Screw, G. Fowler 431
Power, Production of, J. AV. McGaulev lf>l Puddling Iron, B. 0. W„ f7/lc^auIey>1G1 Puddling Iron, AV. Corbett, 161, 199 214 23° 93^ Pud< hng, Papers ou, A Snb-mauage’,., K>5 ' r E"pers ou’ J* WaPcer, lu6 ^ntldling Practical, B., 178, 250, 323 Puddling, Practical, B. B., 273 oU<J^!-ng’ Praeticah Iron, 199, 250, 310 Puddling, Practical, Metal, 285
umps, Centrifugal, Easton, Amos, and Sons 161 Railways, Street, H. H. West, 142 ’
Rainfall Law of British, W. M. Halbert, 273 Road, Steam on the, Road, 214
Roofs, Paper on Arched, C. Wessely, 201
Rust. Removing, R. 8. K.,307
L°nrS’iPlil’glar*proof» J* Sturgeon, 178
Screw Piles, W. D. R., 343
Screw, The Theory of the. G. Fowler, 358
Sewage, Deodorising, Tano, 181
Ships, Measuring, Mercantile Marine, 361
Ships, Measuring, J. S. Parfit,403 Signalling, Railway, D. D. H., 471 Signals, Railway, A Subscriber, 145 Signals, Railway. F. Wise, 163
Smoke and Dust from Cupolas, Inquirer, 269
Specifications, Construction of, F. AV. Campin, 233 Specifications, Construction of, W. Spence 199 Spreading Machines. W. and Co., 11 Steam with Gas, Raising, H. F., 163
Stirrups. Patent, S. Davies, 269
Tallow, Boiling, J. E., 89
To escope, Magnifying Power of, T. Cargill, 453
Theory and Practice, J. R., 453
Trial Trip, An Engineer, 233
Tubes, Cleming Glass, T. Petitjean, 181
'J ubes, Cold Drawn Steel, Wailes and Robinson, 235 'lubes. Paper Cop, A Subscriber, 269 Tugs on the Mer-ey, Clyde, 106
Turkey, Road Making in, J. H. Hutchinson, 437 Valves, Friction of Slide, C. Sells, *61
Vomitorium, The Smoke, D. O. Edwards, 26, 142, 214, 233
Vomitorium, The Smoke, C. W. Dymond, 125, 178, 274
Warehouses, Iron Fire-proof, W. M. Halbert, 142 Water Pressure Machinery, X , 284
Weston’s Pulleys, F. AV. Campin, 26
Wire Ropes, T. 8., 49
W’ool Washing Machinery, B. and K., 145
Wheel Making Machinery, A Subscriber from Commencement, 307
Letheby, Dr., on Combustion of Gas, 447
Levelling, Principles of, 351
Library, City of Loudon Free Public, 6
Lifeboat Services, 6
Lifeboats, 142
Lifeboats, Steam. 199
Liffey, Tunnel under the, 386
Light, The Electric, 445
Light, New Magnesia, 32
Lighthouse on the Goodwin Sands,’ 40S
Lighthouses, Electric Lights in, 32
Lighting-up of the Capital Dome, 156
Lightning Conductors, On, 26L
Lille. 283
Limited Liability, 84
Lindsay’s Locks for Fire-arms, 32
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Pins v. Rivets, 269
Piston Speeds, 304
Planing Machine, Todd’s, 414
Plans of Drains, &c., 409
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Plugs, Bailey’s Fusible, 123
Plymouth Iron Company, 406
Pocket-book. Engineers’, 129
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Porter’s Permanent Way, 25
Portland Cement, 239, 267
Portsmouth, Defence of, 383
Ports, Naval, 252
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Propeller Bearings Patent, The Screw, 353
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Pump, Clark’s Combustion, 7
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Revolvers, Wood’s, 14
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Rifles, Long Range, 401
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Rivetting Machine, Portable Steam, 109
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Salinometer, Gamble’s, 353
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Stations, Designing Railway, 136
Steam, Finding Mean Pressure of Expanding, 304
Steam, Simple Rules for Practical Calculations of the
Efficiency of, 1
Steamer, Trial of a Cattle, 310
Steamers, The Cunard, 430
Steamers, Registered Tonnage of, 254
Steamers, The Registered Tonnage of, 362
Steamers, West India Mail, 480
Steel is made in Jersey City, The Way, 82
Steel, The Strength of Bessemer Cast, 300
Steeple Jack at Westminster, 104
Steering Gear, Elder’s Steam, 395
Stockholm Exhibition, The, 20
Storms, Periodicity of, 120
Strike at the Gorton Foundry, 317
Sugar in Breweries, 335
Sugar, Use of Hydro-fluoric Acid in the Manufacture of, 215
Suicide of a Japanese Engineer, 310
Sunderland Docks, 330
Sunlight, 453
Sunlight, Tracing by, 130
Sun, Physical Constitution of the, 62
Surat, Launch of the Steamship, 213
Susquehanna Railway Bridge, 233
Sutton Bridge, The, 340
Sutton, Fall of a Bridge at, 317
Sweden, Railways in, 7
Table of Reciprocals, 427
Taptee Viaduct, The, 104
Taxation of Industrial Machinery, 104
Telegraph, The Atlantic, 174, 181,182
Telegraph in the East Indies, 322
Telegraph to India, 308
Telegraph in New South Wales, The, 112
Telegraph, The North Atlantic, 56
Telegraph in Norway, 56
Telegraph Office, 356
Telegraph Route, The Great North Atlantic, 146
Telegraph, Russo-American, 6
Telegraph Scheme, The New Atlantic, 100
Telegraph, The French, 446
Telegraphy, Automatic, 81
Telegraphy a Hundred Years Ago, 416
Telegraphy, The Rise and Progress of, 119
Telescopes, Magnifying Power of, 453
Termini, Grand Railway, 13
Testimonial, The Maury, 412, 428
Testing Guns at Woolwich, 419
Thames Embankment, The, 285, 290
Theory and Practice, 427,453
Timber for Shipbuilding, 32
Timber in Western India, Strength of, 160, 371
Time and the Factories, Greenwich, 276
Time Movement in the North, Short, 203
Time Movement, The Short, 226
Time, Universal Working, 318
Tires, Bessemer Steel, 91
Tires, Holiday’s Blocking, 88
Tires, Webb’s Cast Steel, 212
Todd’s Planing Machine, 414
Torbay, Proposed Breakwater for, 88
Torpedo Boat, History of a, 335
Torpedoes for War, 368
Tracing by Sunlight, 130
Trade, The Belgian Coal, 7s
Trade, The Belgian Iron, 64, 243, 254, 363
Trade in France, 56
Trade in France, Iron, 102
Trade, The French, 466
Trade Marks, Piracy of, 429
Trade or the North-Eastern Counties, The Iron, 58
..Trade of North Staffordshire, Iron, 62
Trade of South Wales Ports, 58
Trades of the United States, Iron and Steel, 370
Trades’ Union Delegate, Unsuccessful, 338
Trades’ Union, Operative Engineers’, 341
Traffic, Goods, 287
Traffic, London, 327
Train Stopped by the Wind, 138
Trains, Intercommunication in Railway, 237
Tramways, 31
Transmitting Apparatus of the Atlantic Cable, 433
Traveller, Steam, 154
Travellers at Blackfriars, Steam, 435
Trial Trips, 232
Trick, New Yankee, 305
Trotman’s Anchor, Patent, 236, 310
Tube Company, Green’s, 267
Tubes, Cold Drawn Steel, 197, 215
Tugs on the Mersey, 106
Times, Old, 250
Tunnel, Long, 424
Tunnel under the Channel, 383
Tunnelling, New Process of, 220
Turkey, Mineral Resources of, 104
Turkey, Road-making in, 352
Turpentine as a Fuel, 272
Turret Ships, 312
! Turret Ships, American System of, 228
' Twin Screw System. 227
Tyndall on Radiation and Absorption, Professor, 2ol
Riverstone Hematite Mines, The, 476
Valve, Ching’s Fluid, 104
Valves, Friction of Slide, 113
I Valves, The Friction of Slide, 161
Vapours, On Saturated, 198
Variable State in the Distribution of the Static Charge, 463
Venezuela Railway, The, 288
Ventilating Millstones, 434
Ventilating Millstones at Berlin, 213
Ventilating Steamships, 228
Ventilation of the Houses of Parliament, 282
Ventilation of the London Law Court, 220
Ventilation of Millstones, 164
Viaduct The Craigellachie, 99
Viaduct, East Lancashire Railway, 421
Viaduct, Holborn Valley, 341
Viaduct, Mauritius Railway Grand River, 99
Viaduct, The Mytholme, 69
Viaduct, The Taptee, 104
Vomitorium, On a Smoke, 26, 125, 142, 178, 214, 233, 274, 304
Wages, Continental Rates of Workmen’s, 287
Wages in Pittsburg, Workmen’s, 414
Wagon to Tip Both Sides, 196
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 19, 37, 57, 77, 97, 117, 133, 151, 169, 189, 207, 225, 259, 277, 295, 313, 331, 349, 369, 387, 407, 425,443. 461, 481
Walker’s Ships, 65
Warehouses, Fire-proof, 142
Water-pressure Engines, 323
Water-pressure Machinery, 284
Water-pressure Machinery, Sir W. G. Armstrong’s, 233
249, 379
Water and Sewerage, 143
Water Supply of Paris, 353
Water Supply, Philadelphia, 291
Waterworks Bill, Government, 307
Watt, Statue to, 310
Webb’s Cast Steel Tires, 212
Weighting Machinery, Counter, 128
Well, A New Artesian, 47
Wellington Memorial, The, SO
Wells of Chicago, Artesian, 206
Westminster, steeple Jack at, 104
Weston’s Pulleys, 26
What does it Mean? 174
Whitton’s Hydraulic Presses, 53
Williams, Death of Mr. C. Wye, 252
Winans, The Walter S.» 255
Windlass, Tasker’s, 410
Wood, The Late Mr. Nicholas, 37
Woodbury’s Photo-relief Printing, 88
Wood’s Revolvers, 14
Woolwich Guns, The, 471
Woolwich, How Guns are Tested at, 419
Woolwich, New System of Manufacturing Guns at, 445
Workshop, Discipline of the, 6
Worssam’s Sawing Wood, 84
Young, Carrington, and Co., 480
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