The Engineer 1859 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1859 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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Aberdeen Meeting, the British Ass0ciation, 202
Abridgments of Specifications, 279
Academy of Sciences. Paris, 294

Accident,

American Railway, 44, 130
to the Despatch Steamer, 270
Fatal Railway, 1(7
on the Great Western Railway, Fatal, ::13
on the Greenock Line, 165
on the Lancashire Railway, 306

Accidents,

American Railway, 61.
in America, Great Railway, 72
in France, Railway. 188
"New York State Engineers," Chapter of, 169
on Railways, 141
Reports on Railways, 204
Railway, in the United States, 80

Adamas, the New Material, 399
Adding Machines, 137
Adela, Steam Packet, 179
Adhesive Force to the Driving Wheels of Locomotives, Magnetic Apparatus for Adding, 441
Adhesion Steep Gradients, Locomotive, 209
Advertising, Advantages of, 190
Aerated. Fresh Water Apparatus, 360
Aerial Ship, 397
a New, ::17
Aeronauts, Adventure of, 308
Agglomerated Beton, 66
Agricultural Exhibition,
French, 421
Implements, 387
Implements, Brennand's, 3
Imp events, Coleman's 386
Implements, Seamen's, 402
Machinery, 331
Money-Making, 471
Prizes, 40..!

Aid to Science Instruction, 2)
Aimout's Railway and other Carriages, 280
Air as a Means of Communicating Power, Compressed, 311.
Air Valves for Blast Furnaces, 365
Alexandria to Constantinople, Telegraph from, 274
Algebra, Supplementary Researches in the Higher, 424
Algeria, Telegraph between France and, 188
Alleghany, the War Steam-vessel, 2•',4
Allan's, Mr., Cable, 261
Almanac, the Inventor's, 454
Alps, Railway across the, 245
Alps by a Railway, Passage of the, 211, 230, 247, 265
Amalgamation in Scotland, Railway, 876

America,

Broad Gauge in, 113
Book Painting in, 56
Gas Lighting in. 74
by the North of Scotland, a Telegraph to, 79
Railway Accidents in. 72
by Scotland, Iceland, &c., Telegraph to, 384

American City Tramways, 400, 440

Coal Burning Locomotives, 298
Commercial Honesty, 398
Electric Telegraph Fire Alarm, 833
Engineering, 75, 302, 402
Hotel, 82
Inventions, 400

American Journalism, 75

Locomotives, 352
Pumping Engine, Its Railway, 262
Railway Accident, 94, 130
Railway Accidents, 61
Railway Carriages for Egypt, 158
Railway Manslaughter., 166
Railway Tunnel. 260
Rifled Cannon, 76
Statistics, 441
Shipping, 20
Steam-boat Travelling tr. 113
Steam Fire Engine, 76. Steam Navy, 396, 964
Street Railways, Steam Carriages on. 461
Tramway Carriages, Propulsion of, 454
View of English Engineering, 443
Wagon Road to the Pacific, 380

Amos and Francis' Water Pressure Engines, 186
Amphion, Steamship, 184
Amsterdam Crystal Palace, 349
Anchors, Hunter's, 154
Anderson, Mr. John, 462
Angle Iron, Chapman's Manufacture of, 399
Anglo-Limo Brazilian Steamship Company, 270
Animal Life, Persistent Types of, 260
Anniversary Dinner, Association Foremen Engineers, 222
Annual General Meeting (I. C. Engineers), 455
Anti-Friction Curve, Schiele's, 431
Antiquities, Railway, 222
Anvils and Forgo Hammers, Dawes', .;
Application, a Model, 358
Application of Science to the Fine Arts, 3s Appointment, 44
of Mr. W. Pole to the Professorship of Civil Engineering, 26
Appointments of Naval Engineers, 401, 418, 429, 449
Apprentices, Engineers', 351
Argo, Wreck of the, 54, SO Ariadne, the, 402
Arms and Warfare, 27
Armstrong Gun, the. 58, 101, 187, 425
Gun Factory. 411
Gun at Sea, 407
Armstrong Shot, Resistance of Iron Plates to, 274
Sir W. G. and the Athenaeum, 121
Armstrong's Steam Boiler, 205
Arrogant, the. 270
Arrows or Bolts, Vertical Fire with, 227
Arrowsmith's Carding Engines, 427
Arsenal, the New, 402
Arsenic in Crops, 240
Art-instruction, Spread of, 44S Art, Schools of, 136
Artesian Well in the New Red Standstone at Wolverhampton Waterworks, 285
Artificial Light on Vegetation, SO
Artillery, English Railway, 159
Ashe's Locks, 331
Asbestos, itc., 119
Asbestos and Cortica Wood, 137
Association of Foremen Engineers, Anniversary Dinner, 222
Economical Formation of Steam, by Mr. Stabler, 21
Election and Nomination of Members, 113
Manufacture of Rifle Muskets at the Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock, by Mr. Hayes, 183, 410
Monthly Meeting, 341
Association, Huddersfield Steam Boiler, S. 461
for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions, 21, 92, 166, 237, 319, 410, 461
Associations, Engineering, 281
Astronomer, Launch of an Iron Vessel, 396
Atlantic Cable Effected, What the First, 40
The Defunct., 159
Telegraph, the, 30, 147
Company, 9, 4S Telegraph by the North of Scotland, Iceland, and Greenland, 24
Telegraph by Way of Iceland, North, 212
Atmospheric Condensers, 189
Electricity, Distribution of, 371
Hammer, 412
Phenomenon, 183
Tide? Is there a, 310
Atmosphere, the Pressure of the, 24
Auger Handles, Tucker's, 25S Australia, Geology of Southern, 33
Gold Districts of, 379
South, 363
Telegraph to, 212
Telegraph from Singapore to, D3
via Panama, 19
Australian Mail, 77
Postal Service, 101
River Navigation, 23
steamship should be, What au, 171
Telegraph, 412
Austrian Statistics, 311
Axle-boxes, 457
Axles, Bessemer's Crank, 313
and the Forces they have to Resist, Railroad, 167
and Shafts, Brooman's Cranked, 59

Bacchante, Launch of the, 93
Bagnall's Manufacture of Iron, 8
Bailey's Mode of Loading Fire-arms, 40
Baillie's Railway Wheels, 44
Balancing Weights, 155, 173
Balloon Voyage, the Great, 51. 72, 401. 440
Ballooning across the Atlantic, 270, 331
Balloons, 99, 170
Banbury, the Britannia Works. 260, 270, 275
Barclay's Electrical and Magnetic Apparatus, 95
Barlow's Beams and Girders, 382
Wrought Iron Girders, 428
Barracks at Chatham, New. 443
Barran's Traction Engine, 150, 207
Bars for Street Railways, 150
Barton and Son's Universal Portable Drill, 132
Batteries, French Floating, 77, 157
Jones' Iron, 133
Lightning, 76
Marcais' Galvanic. 95
Meidinger's Electric, 94
New Steam, 471
Batty's Railway Signals, 399
Beams, Clay's Deck and other. 259
and Girders, Barlow's, 382
Beardmore's Superheating Apparatus, 458
Bearings, Elastic, for Railway Tyres, 471
Beattie's Guide Rails, 398
Bees, Effect of Chloroform en, 183
Habits of, 56
Belfast, the North of Ireland, 76
Belgium, Trial of Heaping Machines, 126
Bell at the Leeds Town-hall, New Victoria, 200
The Westminster, 44, 256, 421
Belly Interoceanic Canal Expedition, Return of the, 54
Bennett's, J. J., Refrigerators for Cooling Boer, etc., 240
Berlin, Drinking Fountains in, 132
Steam Fire Engine, 173, 191
Bessemer's Crank Axles, 313
Bessemer Process, the, 13
Big Ben, 234, 369
Bissell's Trucks for Locomotive Engines, 80
Bit Stocks or Auger Handles, Tucker's, 258
Blackfriars Bridge, 427
Blair, Mr. George, 45
Blocking and Securing Ships, Miller's Improvements, 316
Blocks, Hussey's Ships', 208
Board of Works and Drainage Pumping Engines, 63
of Works and their Surveyors, 404
Boat, Plates, 367
Lowering Apparatus, 255
Submarine, 185
Boats, Lowering and Hoisting, 58
Speed and Accommodation of River, 385
Boiler, Armstrong's Steam, 205
Association, Huddersfield Steam, 240
Balmforth's Vertical, 351
Cornish, 463
Department, Stamp-end, 57
Ends, Setting out, 403
Explosion, 376
Explosions, 42, 158. 245, 264, 300, 335, 367
Explosions and Electricity, 851
Explosions, Association for the Prevention of, 819, 410
Explosions, Report of the Association for the Prevention of Steam Bolter, 23?
New Construction of High-pressure, 344,
New Steam, 443
Stays, Brooman's, 295
Steam, 886
Upright, 869

Boilers 27

Comparative Value of Horizontal and Vertical Tubes, 224
Construction of Steam, 206, 365
Boilers. Cornish, 423, 444
Economy and Durability of Steam, 206
Egg Ends of, 447
Feed Apparatus for Giffard's, 380
of the Great Eastern, 242
Hunt's Steam, 241
Inspection of, Now York. 457
Kitchen, How to Avoid Explosion, 462
M'Connell's Steam, 204
Multitubular, 227
Newcastle and Cardiff, 96
Newcastle and Cardiff Coal and, 117, 134
for Newcastle Coal, Construction of, 223
Steam. 387
Upright, 402
Vertical, 317
Water Circulation in, 97

Bone Cave at Brixham, 55
Boots and Shoes, Henry's Machinery for the Manufacture of, 59
Boring Rocks, Johnson's Machinery for, 136
Bow's Railway Chairs and Fastenings, 58
Boydell's Traction Engine, 99, 140, 224
Traction Engine for Egypt, 207
Bradford's Washing and Churning Machines, 459
Brake and Coupling Apparatus, Palmer's Railway, 312
Brake, Improved Railway, 207
Brakes, Efficiency of Self-acting, 256
Railway, 234, 445
Self-acting, M. L. and P. Soc., 457
Bray's Traction Engine, 407
Traction Engine in Devonshire, 151
Traction Engine, Novel Use of, 133
Brazilian Steamers, via Milford Haven, 458
Steamship Company, Anglo-Luzo, 270
Brazil, Patent Law of, 219
Railway Labour in, 329
Statistics of, 376
Steam Communication with, 400
Brazils, New Line of Steamships to the, 208
Bread Making, a New Mode of, 343
Question, the, 97
Break. the Candia and Alexandria, 400
Breakwaters, 97
Construction of, 63
and Harbours of Refuge, 183
Breech-loaders, Conversion of Common Ordnance into. 202
Breech-loading Gun, Mr. Warry's. 76
Repeating Fire-arms, Sharp's, 151
Brenuand's Agricultural Implements, 8
Brewing, Larochette's Machinery for, 313
Brick Machines, 317
Making, 447
Making Machine, Oates', 344
Bricks and Tiles. Machinery for Eccles', 347

Bridge

Blackfriars, 427
at Kehl, Railway. 443
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Cost of the High Level, 864
Niagara Suspension, 179, 225
at Pimlico, New Railway, 400
over the Rhine, Railway. 216, 257
between Strasbourg and Kehl, 22
across the Trent, Now Railway, 77
the Victoria, 183, 316, 386, 431
Opening of the Victoria, 167, 409
New Westminster, 77, 311, 881
Wonderful, 421

Bridges,
Deflection of, 281
Great Spans in Railway, 400
Prussian Railway, 205
Railway, 138, 447
Static and Dynamic Deflection of, 172, 189, 207, 263

Brighton Line, Locomotives on, 79
Bristol School of Mines, 188
Britannia Works, Banbury, the, 260. 270, 275
British, American, and French Mercantile Marines, 106
Association, the, 130, 202
Boilers. Cornish, 423, 444
Economy and Durability of Steam, 206
Egg Ends of, 447
Feed Apparatus for Giffard's, 380
of the Great Eastern, 242
Hunt's Steam, 241
Inspection of, Now York. 457
Kitchen, How to Avoid Explosion, 462
M'Connell's Steam, 204
Multitubular, 227
Newcastle and Cardiff, 96
Newcastle and Cardiff Coal and, 117, 134
for Newcastle Coal, Construction of, 223
Steam. 387
Upright, 402
Vertical, 317
Water Circulation in, 97
Bone Cave at Brixham, 55
Boots and Shoes, Henry's Machinery for the Manufacture of, 59
Boring Rocks, Johnson's Machinery for, 136
Bow's Railway Chairs and Fastenings, 58
Boydell's Traction Engine, 99, 140, 224
Traction Engine for Egypt, 207
Bradford's Washing and Churning Machines, 459
Brake and Coupling Apparatus, Palmer's Railway, 312
Brake, Improved Railway, 207
Brakes, Efficiency of Self-acting, 256
Railway, 234, 445
Self-acting, M. L. and P. Soc., 457
Bray's Traction Engine, 407
Traction Engine in Devonshire, 151
Traction Engine, Novel Use of, 133
Brazilian Steamers, via Milford Haven, 458
Steamship Company, Anglo-Luzo, 270
Brazil, Patent Law of, 219
Railway Labour in, 329
Statistics of, 376
Steam Communication with, 400
Brazils, New Line of Steamships to the, 208
Bread Making, a New Mode of, 343
Question, the, 97
Break. the Candia and Alexandria, 400
Breakwaters, 97
Construction of, 63
and Harbours of Refuge, 183
Breech-loaders, Conversion of Common Ordnance in. to. 202
Breech-loading Gun, Mr. Warry's. 76
Repeating Fire-arms, Sharp's, 151
Brennand’s Agricultural Implements, 8
Brewing, Larochette's Machinery for, 313
Buick Machines, 317
Making, 447
Making Machine, Oates', 344
Bricks and Tiles. Machinery for, Eccles', 347
Bridge, Blackfriars, 427
at Kehl, Railway. 443
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Cost of the High Level, 864
Niagara Suspension, 179, 225
at Pimlico, New Railway, 400
over the Rhine, Railway. 216, 257
between Strasbourg and Kehl, 22
across the Trent, Now Railway, 77
the Victoria, 183, 316, 386, 431
Opening of the Victoria, 167, 409
New Westminster, 77, 311, 881
Wonderful, 421
Bridges, Deflection of, 281
Great Spans in Railway, 400
Prussian Railway, 205
Railway, 138, 447
Static and Dynamic Deflection of, 172, 189, 207, 263
Brighton Line, Locomotives on, 79
Bristol School of Mines, 188
Britannia Works, Banbury, the, 260. 270, 275
British, American, and French Mercantile Marines, 106
Association, the, 130, 202

Cables, Sinnock's Machine for Making. 413
Submarine, 401
Calcutta, Drainage of, 270
California, Further Gold Discoveries in, 107
Wines, 1
Caloric Engine, the Ericsson, 147
Engines, 22
Canada Land Sales. 8
New Ship Canal Project in, 441
Victoria Bridge, 183
Canadian Capital, the New, 203
Steamers, 394, 471
Canal across the Isthmus of Darien, Ship, 176
du Midi into a Ship Canal, Conversion of the, 454
Into a Railway, Conversion of the Regent's, 462
Canals, Irish, 288
Steam on, 292
Candia and Alexandria Break, 400
Cannon, French Rifled, 158
Canton, Loss of the P. and O. Steamship, 402
Carbonic Acid, Solid, 31
Cardiff, Opening of Bute East Dock Extension, 247
Carding Engines, Arrowsmith's, 427
Carriage for Egypt, American Railway, 168
Carriages, Aimont's Railway and other, 280
Comfort in Railway, 443
Carris' Safety Switch Box and Gear, 4
Cast-iron Buildings, 429
Expansion of, 369, 387
Girders, Strength of, 343
Government Experiments on, 204
Mixing, 137, 155, 227
Cast-steel, Manufacture of, 213, 248
Castings, Mending Iron, 449
Cattle Show, Smithfield Club. 409
Caution Warning to Engine-drivers, &c., Dixon's, 449
Cement, Marine, 421
Centrifugal Machines. Graham's, 205
Chaff-cutters at the Smithfield Show, 431
Chain Cables, Quality of, 431
Propeller, 156
Propeller, Robertson's, 285
Channel Fleet, Man Overboard, 345
Channel Islands Telegraph, 401
Chapman's Manufacture of Angle-iron, 399
Chatham, New Barracks at, 443
Chairs and Fastenings, Bow's Railway, 58
Chemical Theory, and the Government Supplies of Iron, 20
Cherbourg, 147
Chevy Chase, the Steamer, 222
Chili, Locomotive Trials in, 446
Chimes of Westminster Clock, 184
Chimneys, 99, 1b3
China, Cultivation of Cotton in, 280
Chloroform on Bees, Effect of, 183
Inhalation of, 425
Cholera, Another Cure for, 331
Churning and Washing Machines, Bradford s, 459
Cigar Steamer, 37, 139
Circular Motion for Slotting Machines, Variable, 413
Circumlocution of Woolwich Hospital, 139

City Railway, 369, 387

Railways, and Markets for the, 376
Sanitary Condition of the, 20
Tramways in the, 445

Civil Engineering. 817
Future of, 299
Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society, 411, 41.5
Civil Service Superannuation, 225
Civil Services, Miscellaneous, 51, 74
Clark's Feed-water Heating Apparatus, 412
Machine for Separating Oats from Chaff, 383
System of Coal-burning without Smoke, 256
Clay's Beams, Deck and other, 259
Cleansing the Serpentine, 111, 119, 130
the Thames, 24
Clifford's Boat-lowering Gear, a Sailor saved by, 240
Clio, Trial of the, 211
Cloch, and Cumbrae Lighthouses, 191
Clock, Chimes of Westminster, 184
Lock, 108
Westminster, 216
Westminster, to Wind Up by the Motion of the Tide, 358
Coal in Belgium and France, 326
and Boilers, Newcastle and Cardiff, 117, 134
Coal-burning Furnaces, R. and W. Hawthorn's, 169
Locomotive, American, 100, 298

Coal,

Construction of Boilers for Newcastle, 223
Exports of British, 400
Heating Power of, 42
Mines, 94
Mines, Inspection of, 262
Mines, Ventilation of, 241
North Country and Welsh, 21
Pits, Unfenced, 388
Shipments, 1858, 56
Sinking for (Shireoak's Colliery), 38
Spontaneous Combustion of, 328
Trade, 213, 276, 376, 430
Trades, South Wales Iron and, 342

Coast Defence, the Cheapest. System of, 270
Coat, a Life-preserving, 167
Coating Metals, Morewood's Improvements in, 364
Ships' Bottoms, Composition for, 376
Cocks or Taps, Warner, Derbyshire, and Mann's, 40
Coiled Submarine Cables, 261
Coinage, the, 8, 140, 351
Bronze, 120, 369
Decimal, 18
Mixed Metal, 335
Copper, 200
New Copper and Bronze, 312
Coke-ovens, Jones', 4U Joseph's, 277
Coleman's Agricultural Implements, 386
Collapse of Tubes, 351
Colliers, Sale of Iron, 399
Colliery Ventilation, 63
Collins Steamers, the, 94
Steamers, Fate of the, 72
Collision with an Iceberg, 90
Colour, Cause of, 292
Colouring Matters, Organic, 292
Colours of Shooting Stars and Meteors, 19
Comfort in Railway Carriages, 443
Commerce of British Ports, 181
Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, Report of, 188
Communication between Railway; Passengers and Drivers. 23, 471
with the South of Ireland. 111
Companies, Limited Liability!, 372
Company, Atlantic Telegraph, 48
Compass, Dial for Determining the Variation of the, 20
Henry's Mariners', 442
Compasses without Needles or Magnets, 165
Compressed Air as a Means of Communicating Power, 311
Compression of Air, 403
Concrete Structures, Blue Lies Lime, 275
Condensation Surface, 189. 443
Condensers, Atmospheric, 189
Surface, 209
Surface. Scott's, 458
Condensing Apparatus, Newton's, 114
Engines, 173
Condie's Steam Hammer, 462
Conduction, Electrical, 315, 333
Congress, the French Scientific. 361
Conservatoire des Arts, the French, 418
Consumption, Smoke, 270
of Smoke on Railways, 243
Construction of Boilers for Newcastle Coal, 223
of Steam Boilers. 206
and Working, Railway, 157
Contracts for Railway Iron, 240
Conversazione at Leeds, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2i,6
Conversion of Bailing Vessels into Steamships, 410
Copcutt's Gas Light, 240
Copper Coinage. 200
Corbett and Carmont's Furnaces, 413
Corn Measures, 31
Cornish Boilers. 423. 444
Engine " Steam;;aces," 349, 363, 414
Engine and Steam Jackets, 2.7
Cort Family, Pension to the, 432
floury, the Family of, 62
Corvette, New Turkish steam, 400
Cost of French Railways, 402
of the late War, 232
Coston's Night Signals, 347
Cotton, 94
in China, Cultivation of, 280
Garnett's Machinery for Ginning and Cleaning, 313
Counterfeit Trade Marks, 325
Coupling Apparatus and Railway Brake, Palmer's, 312
Finch's Iron Mast, 346
Crane, Direct-acting Steam, 206
Cranes, Derricks v., 170
Crank Shafts, 45, 81
Cranked Axles and Shafts, Brooman's, 59
Cranks. 27
Eccentrics v., 173
Lee's, 222
Crimean War to Russia, Cost of, 200
Crinoline Patents, 260
Critchley and Elston's Pistons, 169
Crompton’s Invention of the Mu1e,1211
Crossings. Deny's Railway, 346
Crumlin Viaduct, the, 402
Crystal Palace, 40
Palace, the Amsterdam, 319
Palace, an Ancient Poetic Prediction, 389
Cuba, Sugar Making in, 83
Cultivating Implements, Smith's, 412
Cultivation of the Soil, Application of Steam Power to the, 3
Steam, 358
Cumming, Mr. E. D., Suicide of, 47
Cunard Liner, a New, 342
Cutting and Shaping Metals, Howden's Machinery, 2S4
Curiosities in Science, 53

Damaged Letters, Restoration of, 256
Dangers of the Channel, 453
Danish Cable, 108
Danubian Navigation Company, 385
Dawes' Forge Hammers and Anvils, 5

Death

Deaths, 465
Decay of the Houses of Parliament, 57
Decay of Wooden Steamships, 399
Decimal Coinage, 18
System, the, 445
System of Measurement to Engineering Works, Application of, 92, 248, 293
Deflection of Bridges, 281
of Bridges, Static and Dynamic, 172, 189, 207, 263
Defunct Atlantic Cable, the, 159
Delta, Launch of the, 30
the New Steamship, 283
Denmark, Telegraph to, 72, 75
Density of Steam at all Temperatures, to Determine the, 310, 33.5
Deny's Railway Crossings, 346
Deodorisation of Sewage, 184
Deodorising and Embanking the Thames, 360
Derrick Company, Patent, 453
Derricks v. Cranes, 170
Devonshire, Ossiferous Caverns of, 37
Dial for determinin7 the Variation of the Compass, 20
Dictionary, Dr. Ure’s, 400
Dies, Williams and Fuller's Screw Stocks and, 346
Diggle's, Looms, 4
Direct-acting Steam Crane, 206
Disputes between Masters and Workmen, 135
Distributing Seed and Manure, Newington's, 346
Dividend, Steamship, 177
Dixon's Caution and General Directions, etc., to Engine-drivers, tee., 449
Dixon and Whittaker's Shuttles. 205
Dock, Enlargement of the Southampton Graving, 363
Nystrom's Hydraulic Pontoon, 132
Docks, Floating, Pile's, 262
National Importance of the Northfleet, 8
Northfleet, 51
Opening of Swansea, 239
Dockyard Economy, 464
Pembroke, k36
Dolomites, Formation of Gypsums and, 3S Donegal, H.M.S., 454
Douglas, Sir Howard, and the Griffiths Screw Propeller. 173
Dover, Fortification of, 76
Drainage of Calcutta, 270
and Outfalls, Arterial, 423
Pumping Engines, Bo 'rd. of Works and the, 63
the Southern M in, 272
Works the Southern Main, 319
Draught of Carriages, Leahy's Apparatus for Facilitating the, 442
Draughtsmen, the Mechanical, 423, 471
Drill, Barton and Son's Portable, 132
Drinking Fountains at the British Museum, 262
Fountains, Berlin, 132
Dublin Tramways, 441
Dudgeon's Gas Regulator, 59
Dujardin's Printing Apparatus of Railway Telegraphs, 276
Duncan, Launch of the, 101 guns, 429
Durability of Submarine Cables, 166
Duration of Life in Europe. 76
Dutton, Martin, and Phillip's Machinery for Preventing Accidents in Minus, 413
Drying by Steam, 209

Earth's Internal Temperature, and Thickness of its Solid Crust, the. 259
East Indies, Tertiary Deposits associated with Trap Rocks in the, 38
Eastern Monarch, Wreck of the. 20S
Eccentrics v. Cranks, 173
Eccle's Machinery for the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles, 347
Economy. Steamship, 191
Economy in Working Marine Engines, 41S
Education of Workmen's Children, 229
Edge's Bullets, or other Projectiles, 76
Egypt, American Railway Carriages for, 153
Boydell's Traction Engine for, 207
New Steam Yacht for, 216
Egyptian Progress, 75
Elder's Paddle-wheels, 77
Electric Batteries. Meidinger's, 9
Induction, 134
Ordnance, 107
Quantity and Intensity, 42
Electrical Conduction, 315, 333
Induction in a Coiled Cable, 152, 170
and Magnetic Apparatus, Barclay's, 95

Electricity, 224, 243, 261, 278, 296, 315, 349

Atmospheric, 328
Boiler Explosions and 351
the Distribution of Atmospheric, 371
Purifying the Thames by. 101

Electro-dynamic Induction, 5, 6. 7, 25, 42
Electro-magnet, 317
Elwell's Governors for Steam Engines, 187
Emery's Carriage Springs, 383
Emigration from Europe, Diminution of, 110
to the United State., 56
Emperor's. Yacht Aigle, 133
Emperor Napoleon Ill. and England, 41
Employment of Discharged Prisoners, 121
for Women, Railway, 400
Enamelled Leather Manufacture, 148
Engine, American Pumping, 148
Engine,
Barran's Traction, 150, 207
Berlin Steam Fire, 191
Boydell's Traction, 140, 224
Bray's Traction, Novel Use of, 133
Drivers, Communication. between Passengers and, 471
Drivers, Dixon's Caution and Warning to, 449
Drivers, Protection for, 45, 458
for Egypt, Boydell's Traction, 207
Newcastle Pumping, 129
Ericsson Caloric. 147
and Steam Jacket, the Cornish, 207

Engines,

Rowan's Steam, 77, 99, 119
Turner's Steam, 118
Amos and Francis' Water Pressure, 186
Arrowsmith's Carding, 427
Burgh's Steam, 154
for the Callao, Lima, and Bogota Steamship, 291
Caloric, 22
Condensing, 173
in Devonshire, Bray's Traction, 151
Economical, for the Great Eastern, 471
Hydraulic, 140
Johnson's Locomotive, 44
Knowelden and Edwards' Hydraulic, 115 Locomotive, 29
Marshall's Steam, 62
of the Orinoco, 417
Portable, 99. 384, 417, 431
Randolph. Elder, and Co.'s, 329. 415
Remarkable Economy in Working Marine, 418
Russell's Working of Marine, 882
Steam Fire, 459
Tod's Marino, 349
Traction, 314
Water Pressure, 351
W. and W. McNaught's Steam, 172

Engineering
American, 75, 892. 402
American View of English, 4 i';
Bravery, 270
Civil, 317
Development, 81
Fame, 388
Popular Errors in, 228
Progress of, 20

Engineers' Pocket Books, 27

Appointments of Naval, 41S, 429, 449
for British Columbia, Royal, 244
and Engineering Associations, 281
for India, 372
Marino, 150
Naval, 459
The Royal Naval. 46, 94, 191
in the Royal Navy, 896

England and the Emperor Napoleon III., 41
English and American Locomotives, 417
Ericsson Calorie Engine, 147
Errors in Engineering, Popular, 228
Europe, Diminution of Emigration from, 11()
Duration of Life in, 76
Evans' Hansom Cabs. 240
and Jones' Pumps, 58
and Soames' Superheating Apparatus, 383, 403
Tubular Steam Boilers, 23
Examinations, Local, 159
Exhibition in 1862, Proposed Great, 186
of the Royal Agricultural Society, 56, 74, 93
Expansion of Cast Iron, 869, 387
Gear. Newton's, 26
Expansion of the Iron Trade, 151
of Railway Bars, 887
Experiences of a Napkin, 19
Exploration of the Nile, 41
Explosion on board a Collier, 132
on Board the (heat Eastern, 263
Boiler, 876
and Fire in Hibernian Gas Company, 445
Gas, 378
of Inflammable Matter, 876
on the Lewes Railway, 236. 274
of a Locomotive Engine on the South Yorkshire Railway, 308
of a Steam Tug, 226
Explosions, Boiler, 42, 113, 140, 158, 264, 300, 335, 367
and Electricity, Boiler, 351
Steam, 158
Explosive Compounds, New, 343
Exports of British Coal, 400
Falmouth and Gibraltar Cable, 226, 314
Farming, Lombard. 23
Feed-water Apparatus for Boilers, Giffard's, 330, 366, 384, 424
Heating Apparatus, Clark's, 412
Feed Movement, Shaw's Indefinite, 132
Ferry Boat, Novel Railway, 443
Field-Book, Surveying, 114
File-Cutting Machine, '210
Machinery, 206
Fincham, Mr. John. Death of, 414
Finch's Iron Mast Coupling, 346
Finzil, Mr: Conrad W., Death of, 312
Fire-Alarm, American Electric Telegraph, 333
Fire-Arms. Bailey's mode of Loading, 40
Brooman's Revolving.168
Johnson's, 330
and Ordnance. Lindner's Breech-loading, 5
Sharp's Breech-loading Repeating, 151
Fire-bars, Harden's, 150
Leo Stevens', 299
Martin and Purdie's, 458
Pendulous. 817. 335
Stevens' Pendulous, 2S0
Fire-engine, Berlin Steam, 173, 191
at Leeds, 93
Fire-engines, Steam, 28 168. 459
Fire and Explosion, Hibernian Gas Company, 445
Fire, Safeguards against, 345
Fish-hooks, Newton's, 426
Fish-plates. Price and Hawkins'. 330
Fittings for the Great Eastern, 111
Flint Implement Discovered in a Bed of Gravel, 55
Floating Batteries, French, 157
Buoy, 9
Dock, Pile's, 262
Needles, 27
Fluid Resistance. 153, 281, 332, 348, 351, 366
Foreign and Colonial Jottings, 75, 118. 159. 165. 186, 204, 226. 254, 266. 281, 308, 316, 34, 360, 376, 386, 398, 421, 425. 453, 472
Foreign Office. New, 140
Railway Works, 231
Forge. the, 425
Hat111110111 and Anvils, Dawes', 5
Forged Iron Plates, 212
Forging and Stamping Metals, Shank's, 386
Food for [torsos. 147
Fortification of Dover, 76
Fortifications, French. 260
at Milford Haven. 172
in the South West, 5
Fossil Found in a Quarry near Runcorn, 379
Foundations, Under Sunk, 110, 283
Fountains at the British Museum, Drinking, 282
Fowler's Steam Plough. 471.
France and Algeria. Telegraph between, 188
Extension of the Iron Trade in, 240
Horse-power in. 442
importation of Steel into, 327
Railway Accident in. 189
Railway Service in, 472
Reaping Machines in, 21
The Way they do it in. 400
Trial of Reaping Machines in, 101
Franklin. Sir John, Relics of. 223
French Agricultural Exhibition, 421
Conservatoire dos Arts, 418
French Finances, 376
Floating Batteries and Gunboats, 77, 157
Fortifications, '260
Gunboats, 43, 379
Iron Manufacture, 397
Iron-Plated Frigates, ::65
French, Iron Trade. 8, 412, 417
Locomotives, 336
Mail Service, 330
Navy, the, 241
Ordinance. 166
Patent Law, 93
Policy, 399
Railway Statistics. 194
Railway Traffic, 421
Railways, 167
Railways. Cost of, 402
Railways and French Finances, 376
Rifled Cannon, 158
Scientific Congress, 361
Ship Canal, 402
and Spanish Influence on Portuguese Railways, 184
Steel-Plated Frigates, 399
Telegraphs, 185, 243
Works at Toulon, 157
Frictional Gearing, Robertson's, 208
Friendly Societies, 26
Frigate, Orlando, the Now Steam,- 147
Frigates, French Iron-Plated, 365
French Steel-Plated, 399
Frodsham's Smoke Burning Apparatus, 76
Fuel from Peat, Hodgson's Manufacture, 115
Funeral of Robert Stephenson, 30D
Furnaces, Corbett and Carmont's, 418
Hot-Blast Ovens for Iron, 78, 91, 109
Newton's Steam Boiler and other, 365
R. and W. Hawthorn's Coal-Burning, 169
Future of Civil Engineering, 299
Galatea, the Screw Frigate, 216
Galvanic Batteries, Marcais', 95
Galvanised Brass-wire, 106
Galvanising Iron-wire, a Now Method, 426
Galway Steamers, 399
Gardens at Brompton, Horticultural, 47
Garnett's Machinery for Ginning and Cleaning Cotton, 318
Gas Bill,
Sale of, 162, 174
Explosion, 878
Great Central, 362
Light, Copcutt's, 240
Lighting in America. 74
Lighting in England in 1812, 347
Meters, Mead's, 277
Regulator, Dudgeon's, 59
Regulator, Wright's, 427

Gatwood’s Springs for Railway Carriages, 259
Gauge, Mercurial Steam, 885
Gauges, Steam-pressure, 447
Gauges, Steam-vessels for the, 389
Gearing, Robertson's Frictional, 208
Rolling-mill, 447

GEOLOGICAL. SOCIETY Of LONDON

Bone Cave at Brixham, Devonshire, by Mr. Prestwich. 55
Flint Implement, recently Discovered in a Bed of Gravel, at St. Acheul, near Amiens, by John Wickham Flower, Esq., 55
Formation of Gypsums and Dolomites, by T. S. Hunt, Esq., 38
Notes on the Geology of Southern Australia, by A. R. C. Selwyn, Esq., 38
Notes on Spitzbergen, by I. Lamont, Esq., 38
Ossiferous Caves near Palermo, by Dr. Falconer, F.R.S., V.P.G.S., 55
Sinking for Coal at the Shireoaks Colliery. near Worksop, by I. Lancaster, Esq., and C. C. Wright, Esq., F.G.S., 38 •
Tertiary Deposits, associated with Trap Rocks in the Fast Indies, by the Rev. S. Hislop, 38
Geology of Southern Australia, 38
Gorman Toys, 421
Gibraltar, Doings at, 57
Electric Cable, Shallow and Deep-son. 263
and Falmouth Cable, 90, 226, 296, 314, 459
Telegraph, 102, 244, 261, 277
Telegraph across the Straits of, 421
Giffard's Food-water Apparatus, 330, 366, 384, 424
Injector, 447. 463
Ginning and Cleaning Cotton Garnett's Machinery, 313
Girders, Barlow's Wrought-iron, 428
snit Beams, Barlow's, 382
Calculation of Strains in Braced, 440
Neutral Axis in, 385
Strength of Cast-iron, 843
Glasgow and Hand's Variable Circular Motion for Slotting Machines, 413
Gold Districts of Australia. 379
Discoveries in California, Further, 107
From the Grans, 159
Returns of Victoria, the. 139
Gosport Waterworks, 150
Gourlay's Moulds for Castling, 462
Government Experiments on Cast-iron, 204
and Guns, 81
and the Indian Telegraph Companies, 47
Governors, 119. 171, 245
Governor for Marine Engines, Newton's, 347
for Marine Engines, Pendulum, 95
Elwell's, 187
Vasserot's, 155
Gradients, Locomotive Adhesion and Steep, 209
Gradients, Railway. 155, 335
Graham's Centrifugal Machines, 205
Grain, Sale of, 61
Graving Docks, 407

Great Eastern, 37, 12°, 133, 170. 191. 21r0, 227, 242, 263 270, 281, 296, 342. 361, 862, 397. 404, 409, 426

Eastern, Boilers of the. 242
Eastern, the Consumption of Coal, 345
Eastern, Dinner at Holyhead, 283
Eastern, Economical Engines for the. 471
Eastern, Explosion on Board. 220, 263
Eastern, Fittings for, 111
Eastern, a Liverpool View of the, 810
Eastern and Mr. Scott Russell, 228
Eastern, the Press on the, 372
Eastern and Sea-sickness, 186
Eastern at the Society of Arts, 439, 417, 455
Eastern, Trial Trip, 201, 273
Isaac's, Lighthouse. 82
Western Railway, Fatal Accident on the, 213
Western Railway Hotel, 130

Greenock Line, Accident on, 165
Griffiths and Brennand's Lubricators, 41
Screw Experiments, 22
Screw Propeller, Sir Howard Douglas and the, 173
Grissell's Machinery for Moving Ships on Slips, 190
Guide Bars, Pressure on Locomotive, 99
Gun, another Woudorft-1 Long-range, 183
the Armstrong, 101, 187
Mr. Warry's Breech Loading. 76
Gunboats, French, 43, 157, 379
Now, 136
Gun Carriage, Improved. 425
Gunpowder, New Manufacture of, 83
Guns, Government and, 81
as Military Arms, Sporting, 187
Gutta-Percha as an Insulator at various Temperatures, 237
Gypsums and Dolomites, Formation of, 3i

Hall and Wells' Electric Telegraph Cables, 333
Hammer, Atmospheric, 412
Steam, Condie’s, 462
Steam, 298, 464
Hansom Cabs, Evans', 210
Harbour. Holyhead, 56
Portland, 205
Harbours of Refuge, Breakwaters and, 62, 77, 183
Harden’s Fire Bars, 160
Harris's Apparatus for Regulating the Pressure of Steam, 168
Harrow's, M II ill'U°8 Chain, 439
Hats, Silk, 471
Hawthorn's, R. and W.. Coal-burning Furnaces, 169
Lima Diffusors, on the True Action of. 250
Heat, Dynamic Theory of, 60
Expended in Producing a Cubic Foot of Gaseous, Steam, 12
through Gases, &c., Transmission of, 260
Indicators for Ovens (May's), 151
Measurement of, 300
Heating Apparatus. Clark's Food Water, 412
Heating, Power of Coal, 43
Heating Surface. Locomotive. 384
Henry's Machinery for the Manufacture of Boots and Shoos, 59
Mariner's Compass. 442
Hoarder's, Mr., Paper, 79, 134, 245
Mr., Telegraph Cable, 189, 223, 270
High-Pressure Boiler, New Construction of, 344
Hodgson's Manufacture of Fuel from Peat, 115
Hoisting Tackle, Strains upon, 263
Holyhead Harbour, 56
Hood, Trial of the, 401
Hopkins' Wrought-iron Pier, 865
Horse Food on Railways, 149
Horses. Food for, 147
Horse-power in France, 442
power Indicated, 170, 189, 224
Railways, 169
Horticultural Garden, Kensington Gore, 216
Hospital, Netley, 205, 212
Hot Blast, Invention of, 246
Blast Ovens for Iron Furnaces, 73, 01, 109
Hotel, an American, 82
Great Western Railway, 130
Houses of Parliament. Decay of, 57
Howden's Machinery for Cutting and Shaping Metals, 284
Howden's Shaping Machinery, 299. 335, 369, 387
Huddersfield Steam Boiler Association, 8, 240, 461
Hull. Report of the Progress of Steam Navigation at, 265
Hunter's Anchors. 154
Hunt's Steam Boilers, 241
Hussey's Ship's 13locks, 208
Hydraulic Engines, 140
Engines, Knowelden and Edwards, 116
Pontoon Dock, Nystrom's, 132
Presses, Tangye’s, 23
Hydrophobia, Cure for, 130
Ice, a Palace of. 459
Winter Transit on the. 18
Iceberg, collision with, 90
Iceland, North Atlantic Telegraph by Way of, 212
Impact of Bodies, 431
Improvement, Railway, 174
Increase of the Navy, 41
Indestructible Light, the, 402
India, 257
Engineers for, 372
Public Works in. 295
Railways in, 378
Russian Railway to, 311
Steamers in, 168
Telegraph to, '212, 331
India-rubber, Johnson's Machinery for Treating, 443
Indian, Loss of the Mail Steamer, 409, 427
Railway Works, 426
Telegraph, 262. 407, 459
Telegraph Companies, Government, and the, 47
Indicated horse Power, 170, 189, 224
Indicator. Mitchell's Engine Speed, 136
the Steam Engine, 281
of the Weather and the Sky, 446
Indicators for Ovens, Heat, 151
Induction in a Coiled Cable, Electrical, 152, 170
Coils, 27
Electric, 134
Inflammable Matter, Explosion of, 376
Infringement of Patents, 317
Injector, Giffard’s, 447. 463

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS:—

Annual General Meeting, 455
Artesial Drainage and Outfalls, by Mr. R. B. Grantham, M.I.C.E, 423
Opening Address, 344
Premiums Awarded, 38
Waterworks, Trafalgar-square, Origin, Progress, and Present State of the Government, by Mr. C. E. Amos. M.I.C.E., 361, 414

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :—

Annual Gathering of the Institution at Leeds, 195
Application of the Decimal System of Measurement to Mechanical Engineering \York, &c., by Mr. Jno. Fernie, 92, 248, 293
Boilers, Construction of Steam, Mr. B. Goodfellow, 206
Brake, Improved Railway, by Mr. Alex. Allan. 207
Construction of Hot blast Ovens for Iron Furnaces, by Mr. Henry Marten, 73, 91, 109
Conversazione, 206
Direct-acting Steam Crane, by Mr. R. Morrison, 206
Economy and Durability of Steam Boilers, by Mr. Longridge, 206
File-cutting Machinery, by Mr. Thos. Greenwood, 206
Haste's Safety Valve, by Mr. William Naylor. 206
High Pressure Boiler, New Construction of, by Mr. J. Fredk. Spencer, 844
Locomotive Tenders with Water, Supplying, by Mr. Jas. Fenton, 206
Oates' Brick Making Machine, Description of, by Mr. J. E. Clift, 844
Pressure Gauge, Now, by Mr Alex. Allan, 206
Pumping Engine, Newcastle, Description of, by Mr. Robt. Monition. 129
Superheating of Steam, by Jno. Penn, Esq., 206
Insulation of Telegraph Cables, 444, 460
of Telegraphic Conductors, Warne's, 446
Insulator at various Temperatures, Gutta-Percha as an, 287
Insurance (bettor), 62
Invention of the Hot-Blast, 246
Misfortunes of, 137
Tendency and Progress of, 9
Patents for, 75
Re-Patented, 153
Ionian Islands. Military Routine in the, 205
Ireland, the North of, 76
Rapid Communication with the South of. 111
Irish Canals, 288
Irregularities in the Winter Temperature of the British Islands, 828
Irresistible, the, 110

Iron,

Bagnall’s Manufacture of, 8
Castings, Mending, 449
Chapman's Manufacture of Anglo, i99
Chemical Theory and the Government Supplies of, 20
and Coal Trades, South Wales, 19, 154. 342
Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 16, 85, 62, 70, 88, 106, 126. 144,163. 180, 198, 217, 234, 252, 270, 288, 306, 324, 340, 858, 377, 392, 407, 422, 437. 453, 460
and Coal in Now South Wales, 179
Contracts for Railway, 240
into France. Importation of, 407
Government Experiments on Cut, 204
Hollow Shot and Molten, 202
Manufacture of, 385, 428, 444
Manufacture, French, 397
Mast Coupling, Finch's, 846
Mixing Cast, 227
Moulding, Muir and Mellwham's, 864
Palace for the Viceroy of Egypt, 26
Plates to Armstrong Shot, Resistance of, 274
Plates, Forged. 212
Rolling Machinery, Louth's, 187
Science in the Manufacture of, 415
Shipbuilding, 328
Ships, 428
Ships, Preservation of, 40
Ships and the Royal Charter, 411
Ships of W7ar. 463
Sided Ships, 157
Steam Ram, the New, 2
and Steel, 42
and Steel, Experiments on, 444, 460
and Steel, Improvement of, 28
and Steel, Manufacture of, 101
Trade, Expansion of the, 151
Trade, French, 8, 240. 4122.417
Trade, the Welsh, 253
Vessels, 385
Vessels, Strength of, 333
Wire, a New Method of Galvanising, 426

Isle of Man Cable, 166, 234, 274
Isthmus of Darien, Ship Canal across, 176
Italy, the late War in, 115

Japan, our Commerce with, 252
Japanese, the, 130
Jersey Mail Steam Packet Express, Wreck of, 233, 237
Johnson's Fire-arms, 330
Instrument for Severing, Damping, and Fixing Postage Stamps, 416
Locomotive Engines, 44
Machinery for Boring Rocks, 136
Machinery for Treating India-rubber, 443
Permanent Way, 94
Rail Cutting and Punching Machine, 94
Jones' Coke Ovens, 40
Iron Batteries, 133
Joseph's Coke Ovens, 277
Journalism, American, 75
July, Temperature for. 103
Junction of the Metropolitan Railways, 429

Kamtschatdale Dwellings, 166
Kohl, Railway Bridge at, 443
Kellingley's Lubricating Apparatus, 442
Kensington Gore. Horticultural Garden, 216
Knowelden and Edwards' Hydraulic Engines, 116
Kyan's Process of Preserving Timber, 93

Labour in Brazil, Railway, 329
Lake Ontario to Liverpool, 176
Lamb and Summer's Apparatus for Superheating Steam, 41
Lamp, Submarine, 285
Lancashire Railway, Accident on, 806
Laud Sales, Canada, 8
Larochette's Machinery for Brewing, 313

Launch

of the Astronomer, 396
of the Bacchante, 93
of the Delta, 30
of the Dover Mail Packet, John Penn,971
of the Duncan. 429
of a Large Iron Screw Steamer, 389
of the Mutine, Sloop of War, 101
of the Victoria. 368
Lauth's Iron-Rolling Machinery, 187

LAW INTELLIOENCE :—

Curtain v. Crossley and Others, 401
Ermen v. Liddle. 159
Griffiths v. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 429
Hills v. the London Gaslight Company, 889
Hoare and Others v. Rennie and Others. 372
In re the Newport Bridge, 889
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company v. Wood. 372
Oxley v. Holden, 429
Patent Typo-Founding Company v. Richard, 48
Underhill v. Longridge, 372
Wolverhampton Waterworks Company v. Hawksford, 359
Lead Pipe Machinery, Wilson's, 462
in Water Pipes, 259

LEADING ARTICLES:—

Agricultural Machinery, 337
American Locomotives, 352
Steam Navy, the, 464
Engineers and Engineering Association, 2filit
English and American Locomotives, 313, 41
Arms and Warfare, 27
Atlantic Telegraph Company. 9
Boiler Explosions, 245, 264, 300, 335
Breakwaters, Construction of, 63
Bronze Coinage, Now, 120
Building Strike, the, 99
City Railways, 369, 387
Civil Engineering, 317
Coal-Burning Locomotives, 100
Dockyard Economy, 464
Education of Workmen's Children, 229
Employment of Discharged Prisoners, 121
Engineering Development, 81
Fame, 383
French Locomotives, 336
Future of Civil Engineering, the, 209
Great Eastern, 120, 191, 209, 227, 281, 351, 401 •
Eastern at the Society of Arts, 447
Gibraltar Electric Cable, Shallow v. Deep Seas, 263
Government and Guns. 81
High Railway Speeds, 318, 370
Improvement, of Iron and Steel, 28
Iron Ships of War, 463
Vessels, 335
Locomotive Adhesion and Steep Gradients, 209
Engines, 29
London Street Railways, 155
Machine File-hutting. 210
Measurement of Heat, 300
Metropolitan Board of Works and their Survey° 404, 417
Mining Management, 09
National Medallions for 1859, 30
Ocean Steam Navigation. 64
Patent Law and Patent Mongering, 282, 819, 887
Patent Laws, 264
Permanent Way Rail Fastenings. 63
Popular Errors in Engineering, 228
Present and the Future, 45
Protection to Engine-Drivers, 45
Railway Across the Alps, 245
Bridges, 138, 447
Construction and Working, 157
Improvement, 174
Smoke Nuisance. 463
in Loudon. 137, 119
Requiescat in Pace, 299
Rifle Corps Movement. 418
Royal Charter Inquiry, 404
Charter. Loss of the, 369
Naval Engineers. 46. 191
Russell, Mr. Scott, and the Great Eastern, 228
Russian Railways. 120
Sale of Gas Bill, 174
Schools of Art, 156
Science Schools. 139
Sir Howard Douglas and the Griffiths Screw Propeller, 173
Spread of Art Instruction. 41S
Steam Fire-engines, 28
Hammer, 464
Ploughing, 403
Steamship Economy, 191
Power and Resistance, 10
Stephenson awl Brunel Monuments, 44$
Stephenson, Robert, 404
Superheated Steam, 246
Tendency and Progress of Invention, 9
Unfenced Coal Pits, 388
Victoria Bridge, 431
Leahy's Apparatus for Facilitating the Draught of Carriages, 442
Loather Manufacture, Enamelled, 118
Russia, 353
Lecturer, the First London, 43
Leeds Town Hall Bell, the Victoria, 200
Leo's Cranks, 222
Lee's and Heap's Punching Machinery, 114
Letter Insurance, 62
Allen's, Mr. Cable. Application of Power to atom-vessels, Y.. 261
N. Hoarder, 261

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :—

Adding Machine, Thomas Fearnley, 137
Air Valves for Blast-furnaces, W. Rhodes, 865
and the Cortica Wood, Robert Mallet, 137
Atlantic Telegraph by the North of Scotland, Iceland, and Greenland, H. K., 24
Atmospheric Condensers. Henry Pratt, 189
Balancing Weights. A. F., 155, 173
Balloons. the Upper Western Current, 99
Transatlantic Aeronaut, 170
Balmforth's Vertical Boiler, Wm. Allott, 351
Barlow's Wrought-iron Girders, Ed. Finch, 428
Berms' Traction Engine, Dodge and Giandonati, 207
Board of Works and the Drainage Pumping Engines, a Subscriber, 63
Berlin Steam Fire-engines, Frederick Braithwaite, 173, 191
Bessemer Process, Robert Mushet, 13
Big Ben, Novice, 369
Blair, Mr., George Blair, 45
Boat Plates. Wm. Corbett. 367
Boiler Explosions, A. C. H., 335
Explosions, Desmond G. Fitz-Gerald, 42, 367
Explosions and Electricity, George Bower, 351
Explosions, Wm. Corbett, 335
and Electricity, W. Corbett, 351
Boilers, C. W., 27
Construction of Steam, B. Goodfellow, 365
of the Great Eastern, C Wye Williams. 242
for Newcastle Coal, Construction of, C. Wye Williams. 223
Steam, C. T., 887
Steam, G. W. M., 387
Steam, Zebra, 387
Upright. A. B., 369
Boydell’s Traction Engines, Fair Play, 99
Traction Engine, F. H. Hemming, 224
Broad Question, Henry Pratt. 97
Breakwaters, O. W. Jaffrey, 97
Brick Machines, Humphrey Chamberlain, 317
Making, H. J. 8., 447
Brunel and Stephenson. J. Rockliffe, 314
Chaff-Cutters at the Smithfield Show, B. Samuelson, 431
Chain Propeller, J. Willcock, 155
Chimneys, Henry Pratt, 153
J. C. Adamson, ti9
Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society, a Member, 445
Cleansing the Serpentine, J. Walker,
Cloch and Cumbrae Lighthouses, a Clydesdale Engineer, 191
Coiled Submarine Cables, P. C. Webb, 261
Coinage. the, Ralph Heaton and Sons, 351
The Bronze, Numismatist, 369
Mixed Metal, Numismatist, 335.
Collapse of Tubes. J. Judge, 351
Colliery Ventilation, C. Schiele and Co., 03
Compression of Air, J. L., 403
Condensing Engines, A. Learner, 173
Cornish Boiler, A. B. and C., 463
Boiler, It. B. D., 463
Boiler, R. Bach, 463
Boilers, X. Y. and Z., 444
Cranks, G., 27
Crank Shafts, G., 81
Shafts, G. Kean, 45
Shafts, M. R., 45
Shafts, Old Crank, 45
Shafts, S. Barnett, 45
Decimal System, J. W. R., 445
Deflection of Bridge, F. Braithwaite, 281.
Density of Steam, M., 335
Derricks v. Cranes, One who is Conversant with the Success of Bishop's Derricks, 170
Discharge of Steam from Pipes, C. Schiele and Co., 9, 27
of Steam from Pipes, E. A. Leonard, 9
of Steam from Pipes. T. Baldwin, 27
Drying by Steam, W. C., 209
Eccentrics v. Cranks, E. V. C., 173
Egg-ends of Benoit), B. L., 447
Electric Induction, J. N. Hearder, 134
Quantity and Intensity, J. N.. Hoarder, 42
Electrical Conduction, Desmond G. Fitz Gerald, 315
Conduction, K., 833
Induction, &o., F. C. Webb, 152
Induction, &c., J. N. Hoarder. 152
Induction, in a Coiled Cable, T. N. Hoarder, 170
Electricity, K., 224, 261, 296
W. Steevenson, 243, 278, 315, 349
Electro-dynamic Induction, by O. Blair, 5, 6, 7, 25
Induction, A Telegraph Engineer, 25
Induction, By X. Y. Z., 7, 42
Magnet, H. L, 335
Magnet, L. C. E., 317
Engineers' Apprentices, R. Johnson, 3.11
Pocketbooks, a Subscriber, A. B.. Initio, 27
Engines of the Orinoco. ., 417
Evans and Soame's Superheating Apparatus. W. Butlin, 403
Expansion of Cast Iron, One who is Interested, ::(19, 387
of Railway Bars, Expansion. 3S7
Experiments of Iron and Steel, David Kirkaldy, 444
on Iron and Steel, It. Mushet. 460
on the Strength of Steel and Wrought Iron, R. Mushet, 428
Explosion on Board the Great Eastern, J. F. Spencer, 263
Exposure of Water to Air, A Constant Subscriber, 9
Falmouth and Gibraltar Cable, Another of the Public, 314
Floating Buoy, J. B. and J. Shaw, 9
Needles, H. Walker. 27
Flow of the Thames. A. N. 1)., 45
Fluid Resistance, C. G. G., 332, 351, 366
Resistance. C. G. K., 348
Resistance, J. Cooke, 281
French Iron Trade, One of your Subscribers, 417
Gibraltar Cable, A Subscriber, 296
Cable, Electro, 296
Telegraph, the, C. E., 277
Gibraltar, Telegraph, the. G., 261
Giffard Feed-water Apparatus, A. S. Lukin, 384
Feed-water Apparatus, C. Schiele, 366, 384
Giffard's Injector, C. Schiele, 463
Injector. Sharp. Stewart, find Co., 447
Governors, A Subscriber from the Commencement. 24.5
Thomas Baldwin, 171
Yam. 119
Grain Mills. V. P.. 431
Gloat Bell of Westminster. the, S. W., 263
Great Eastern, the, Fair Play, 263
Eastern, Jno. Frederick Spencer, 170
Eastern, R. Armstrong, 296
Eastern, W. Butlin. 242
Eastern, Our Own Correspondent, 296
Hoarder's, Mr., Cable, J. N. Hearder, 223
Mr., Cable, Peter Ramsay. 189
Mr., Paper. A Telegraph Engineer, 79
Mr., Paper, A Telegraph Engineer, 134
Mr., Paper, J. N. Bearden 245
Heat Expended on Producing a Cubic Foot of Gaseous Steam from Water, J. B., 12, 60
Heating, Power of Coal, Engineer's Assistant, 43
High Railway Speeds, a Subscriber, 281
Railway Speeds, " Locomotive," 299
Horse Railways, C. Ruin, 169
Bowden's, Mr.. Shaping Machinery, E. Hunt, 335, 387
Mr., Shaping Machinery. J Kean, jun., 299
Shaping Machinery, J. Kean, 369
Impact of Bodies, B. A.. 431
Indicated Horse-power. J. F. Spencer, 170, 224
Horse-Newer, C W. Williams, 189
Induction Coils. F. M. E 27
Infringement of Patents, A Constant Reader, 317
Insulation of Telegraph Cables, Fair Play, of Telegraph Cables, Insulator, 444
Iron Ships, Eisemanure. 428
and Steel, G. P. Atkinson, M.R.C.S., 43
and Steel, R. Mushet, 48
Large River Steamers, J. M. Samborn, 369
Lines of Vessels, F. B., 332
of Vessels, G. R Toe ill, 351
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, G. Ronnie, 348
Locomotive Engines, F. C., 263
Heating Surface. C. Cowper. 384
Improvement, F. W. Turner, 14
Improvement, Isaac Dodds, 79
Improvement, J. N., 43
Proportions, J. Wilson, 191
Traction, Problem of, J. Boydell. 207
for Curves and Inclines, V. 1'., 278
as required for Working Lines with Difficult Curves and Gradients. E. L., 212
Lunar Controversy, Goosequill, 445
Controversy, W. Steevenson, 445
Manufacture of Iron, J. P., 385, 428
of Iron, W. Corbett, 444
Mechanical Draughtsmen. J. N., 428
Mercurial Steam Gauge, J. Rhodes. 385
Misfortunes of Invention, W. Riddle, 137
Mixing Cast Iron. C. Schiele and Co., 155
Cast Iron, E. and J. F., 137
Cast Iron, R. G., 155
Cast Iron. X. Y., 227
Multitubular Boilers, Isle of Man, 227
Neutral Axis in Girders. N. D. Y., 835
Now Iron Steam Ram. J. Macintosh, 24
Projectile, *41 152
Steam Rams, J. A. M.. 9
Newcastle and Cardiff Boilers, C. W. Williams, 06
and Cardiff Coal and Boilers, C. W. Williams 117, 134
Non-Freezing Oil, J. Willcock. 351
Notes and Memoranda, W. Hooper, 119
Ocean Steam Navigation, " Cantab." 137
Steam Navigation, "Cantab," 155
Omnibuses, S. W., 403
Oscillation of Screw Steamships, T. J. Thompson, 401
Oxydised Linseed Oil, a Subscriber, 369
Paraffine Oil, Economist, 403
Parkfield Iron Company, Cope and Miller. 341
Patent Agency, not Patent Mongering. W. Spence, 208
Laws, a Poor Inventor, 298
Law and Patent Mongering, J. T. G., $17
Law and Patent Mongering, R. M. Latham, 297, 337
Law and Patent Mongering, W. Fairbairn, 319
Pendulous Fire-bars, J. L. Stevens, 317
Tribunals, W. Spence. 97, 428
Peat. Manufacture of. R. Malta. 81
Pendulous Fire-bars, J. L. Stevens, 335
Perfection in Machines, R. Armstrong, 24
Perpetual Motion. H. Childs, 45
Portable Engines, Bostonian, 45
Engines, E. L., 384, 431
Engines, H. Childs. 99
Engines, J. B. Davis. 417
Steam-engine, Ralph A. Hope, 99
Practical Problems, Projector. 403
Pressure of the Atmosphere. Henry Pratt, 24
on Locomotive Guide Bars. W. A. II., 99
Problem of Locomotive Traction, Anti Perpetual Motion, 152
of Locomotive Traction, Jas. Boydell. 134, 171
of Locomotive Traction, J. W. R.. 278
of Locomotive Traction, Old Crank, 171
of Locomotive Traction. R. H., 152
of Locomotive Traction, S. Hannan, 171
of Locomotive Traction, Samuel Thornton, 152, 173
Properties of Steam, W. J. Macquorn Rankine. 78

Qualifications of Patent Agents. Wm. Spence, 343, 367
Quality of Chain Cables, Bob Stay, 431
hallway Gradients. C., 335
Gradients. R. T. P.. 155

Re-Patented Inventions, A. B. Ex.. 153
Rifling Common Ordnance, T. Heppleston, 191
Rolling Mill Gearing. J. P., 431
Mill Gearing, Jno. Pinchbeck, 447
Mill Gearing, Jos. Willcock, 447
Rowan's Steam Engines, E. H., 119
Steam Engines, F. W. T.. 99
Royal Charter Steamship, H. R., 351
Safety Valves, Novice, 191
Schiele's Anti-Friction Curve, C. Schiele. 43
Science in the Manufacture of Iron, Wm. Corbett, 415
Screw v. Paddle, Robt. Armstrong. 116
Propellers. A. B. C.. 119
Propellers, Robt. Griffiths, 45
Setting Out Boiler Ends, G. Green. 403
Signalling System. Now. G. Eskhout, 351
Smoke Prevention, An Amateur, 281
Society of Foremen Engineers. Jos. Newton, 29
Speeds and Accommodation of River Boats, 31.C.J., 385
Static and Dynamic Deflection of Bridges, Locomotive, 189, 263
and Dynamic Deflection of Bridges, Thos. Baldwin, 207
Steam Boiler, G. Patieson. 335
Case, the. F. W. Turner, S67
Case. T. Craddock, 460
Engine Indicator. George Pool, 2S1
Indicator, Chas. J. Pooley. 281
Pressure, G. '1'. H.. 43
Pressure Gauges, Sydney Smith, 447
Properties of. &c., J. B., GO
Rams, Jno. Grantham, 43
Whistle. Jno. Heaton, 299
Whistle, L., 317
Steamboat Propulsion, V. P., 43
Economy, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 207
Steamship Propulsion. A Disciple, 63
Propulsion, C. G. G., 276
Propulsion, C. G. G., 299
Propulsion, E., 116
Propulsion, F. A., 135
Propulsion, J. C.. 171
Propulsion, Jno. Heaton, 317
Propulsion, Robt. Armstrong, 78
Propulsion, Robt. Armstrong, 97
Propulsion, R. B., 171
Propulsion, V. P., 116, 171
Propulsion, Y., 115, 297
Resistance, Robert Armstrong, 43
Resistance, Scientia, 81
Resistance, Y., 23, 76, 09
Thunder and Economy of Fuel, A. B. C., 415
Stephenson, Robert. J. A. I,. A.. 384
Stevens, Mr. Lee, Fire-bars. H. J. Eastwood, 259
Strains upon Hoisting Tackle. T., 263
of Wheels, A. 13. Ex.. 170
Strength of Wheels. O. E. 13., 155
Submarine Cables, Dielectric, 299
Cables, Fleming Jenkin, 401
Telegraphs, A Submarine Shareholder, 117
Telegraphy, Armature, 170, 315
Telegraphy, Coil, 243, 315
Telegraphy, J. N. Hearder„ 315
Telegraphy, Magnet, 243, 277
Telegraphy, S. Owen, 460
Sugar Cane Mills. Ebenezer Small, 369
Making Machinery. C. G. K.,119
Mills, Thos. Baker. 361
Superheated Steam, O. 13. D., 403
Superheating Apparatus, Jno. Penn and Son, 137
of Steam, Charles Swift, 227
Supply of Water to Towns, Wm. Williams, C.E., :)85
Surface Condensation. Isle of Man, 189
Condensers. Isle of 31an, 20:4
Telegraph to America by the North of Scotland. II. K.. 70
to America by Scotland, Iceland, &C., H. K., 384 •
Thames and the Atmosphere, W. Steevenson, 117
Cleansing the, R. N. C., 24
Theory of Fluid Resistance, Robt. Armstrong, 153
of Fluid Resistance, V. P., 153
Traction Engines, E. 1., 314
Tramways, J. B., 335
Tunnel through Mount Cenis, W. Munro, 334
Tunnelling Machinery. G. Hunter, 24
Ulverstone and Lancashire Railway, Jno. Henderson, 333
Upright Boilers, W. Butlin, 403
Vasserot's Governor, it. Hedley, 155
Vertical Boilers, Wm. Yule, 317
Fire with Arrows or Bolts, J. Norton, 227
Vibrations in Screw Steamers. J. 11. Is., 119
Walking the Water, F. T. B., 317
Warwick Meeting, Rich. Bach, 27
Water-casing for F1111110111. 351
Circulation in Boilers, Colonial Engineer, 97
Water Pipes, Ateragram. 431
Pressure Engines, Jno. M. Sanborn, 3,51
Supply and Water-power. E. L., 3IS Wheels, JOS. Willcock, 401
Welsh and Newcastle Reports, G. Wye Williams, 7S
Westminster Boll, 'I'. T. J., 299
Windmills. E. L..296
Wonderful 31otivo-povver, A Student, 191
Lewes Railway. Explosion on, 274
Lewis' Mode of Attaching Sails to the Yards of Ships, 58
Leviathan, Another, 344
Life Boat, Ludlam's, 393
Preserving Coat. 167
Light, the Indestructible, 371
Light, Now, the Photophore, 151
Theory of. 292
Lighthouses, Cloch and Cumbrae, 101
'Lighthouse. Great Isaacs, 82
Lighthouses. Water in. 259
Lighting Picture Galleries by Gas. 83
Lightning Batteries, 76
Lime Blue Lists, Concrete Structures, 275
Light. the, 397
Limited Liability Companies. 372
Lindner's Breech-loading Fire-arms and Ordnance, 5
Linea of Vessels, 332, 351

LITERATURE—

Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Machine called the Mute, by Gilbert J. French, 431
Manual of the Steam Engine and the Prime Movers. by Wm. Jno. Macquorn Rankine, C.E.. LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 4:c . 395
Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it, 192
The Globe Telegraph, by Septimus Beardmore, C.F., 11
The Life of Jas. WM.% with Selections from his Correspondence, by Jas. Patrick Muirhead, M.A., 46
Three Lectures on the Rise and Progress of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. and on popular Education, by W. Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S., F.O.S., 11
Liverpool and Holyhead. Telegraph between, 462
Lake Ontario to, 176
and Manchester Railway, 348
v. Milford Haven. 372
Polytechnic Society Liverpool, Explosion on Board the Great Eastern, 203
Liverpool, The Port of the World, 441
to the West Indies, Steamship line from. 213
Livingstone Expedition, 396
Loading Fire-arms, Bailey's Mode, 40
Local Examinations, -159
Loch Katrine Waterworks, 218
Lock. a Clock, 108
Lock-out., the London Strike and, 212
Locks, Ash's. 331

Locomotive

Adhesion and Steep Gradients, 209
American Coal Burning. 298
Building, London and South-Western Railway, 112
Engines, 29, 263
Engines, Johnson's, 44
Boating Surface, 3S4
Improvement, 14,43. 79
Proportions, 191
Traction Problem of, 134. 152, 171, 173, 273, 297
Trials in Chili, 446
Locomotives, American. 352
on the Brighton Lino, 70
Coal Burning, 100
for Curves and Inclines, 278
English and American, 318, 417
French, 336
Largo, 400
Road, 23, 83
for Scotland. 92
for Working Difficult Curves and Gradients, 242

Lombard Farming, 23

London Bridge. 20

Main Drainage. 55
Mechanics' Institution, 270
Railways in, 119. 137
the Straits of, 394
Street Tramways, 153

Long Range Gun, 133
Looms. Diggle's, 4
Taylor's', b31
Loss of the Canadian Mail Steamer. Indian. 409, 427
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship, Canton. 402
of the Royal Charter. 369
of a Screw Steamer. 54
of Two Screw Steamships. Kars and Silistria, 90
towering and hoisting Boats, 53
Lubricating Apparatus, Kellingley’s, 442
Lubricators, Griffiths and Brennand’s, 41
Ludlum's Life Boat. 393
Lunar Controversy, the, 445
Locomotive Engines, 29
Machinery. Agricultural, 331
for Russia. 133
Unprotected. 379
McConnell’s Steam Boilers, 201
"McNaught's. W. and W., Steam Engines, 17'2
Madras, a Now Pier at, 53, 353
Maelstrom not a Myth, the, 111
Magnetic Apparatus for Adding Adhesive Force to the Driving Wheels of Locomotives, 441
Mail, the Australian, 77
Service, the French, 330
Main Drainage, 5e,, 410
Manchester Association for the Prevention of Boiler Explosions. 166, 461

MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY :

Algebra. Supplementary Researches in the higher. by J. Cockle. M.A., F.R.S.. 424
Atmospheric Electricity, by Professor W. Thomson, F.R.S., 323
Brakes, Efficiency of Self-acting Railway, by W. Fairbairn, Esq.. 457
Colour and the Theory of Heat, on the Cause of, by Mr. J. Smith, M.A., 292
Communication Respecting a Curious Fossil Found in a Quarry near Runcorn, by 31r. J. Atkinson, 379
Gliders, Experiments on the Strength of Cast Iron. by Mr. J. G. Lynde, N.I.C.B., 344

MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY-

Gold Districts of Australia, Observations on. by W. S. Joyous, Esq., 379
Irregularities in the Winter Temperature of the British Islands, by Mr. Hopkins, 82S
Microscopical Section, 424
On Storms, a Paper. by Mr. T. Heelis. 379
Organic Colouring Matters, Researches on, by Mr. Amandon, of Turin, 292
Solar Spots. on the Phenomena of Groups of, by Mr. Baxendell, 343
Total Heat of Steam, by J. P. Joule, LLD., F.R S., 424
Manslaughters. American Railway, 166
Manufactures, Our, 279
Marble, Weight of. 90
Marcais' Galvanic Batteries, 9S Marino Cement, 421
Engineers. 150
Engines, Remarkable Economy in Working, 41S Engines, Rowan's, 378
Engines, Russell's Working of, 3S2
Engines. Samuel and Nicholson's, 22
Engines, Tod's, 349
British. American, and French Mercantile, 106
Markets. Metal and Timber. 18, 86, 51, 72. 90, 103, 128, 146, 164, 182. 200, 218. 236. 254, 272, 290, 308, 326, 342. 360, 378, 394, 438, 454, 472
and Railways for the City, 376
Marshall's Steam Engines. 62
Martin and Purdie's Fire-bars, 45S
Massachusetts and Now York Railways Compare:1, 169
Masters and Workmen, Disputes between, 135
Mather's Steam Trap, 22
May's Heat Indicators for Ovens, 151
Mead's Gas Motors. 277
Measurement of Heat, the, 300
to Mechanical Engineering Work, &c., Decimal System of. 248,293
Measures of Length, Nomenclature of. 23.;
Meat Market, Smithfield Dead, 362
Mechanical Draughtsmen, 423, 471
Progress in Now South Wide.** 362.;
Mechanics' Institution, London, 2;0
Medallions for 1859, the National, 30
Mediterranean Submarine Telegraphs. 319
Meidinger's Electric Batteries, 91
Memoriam, in, 309 .
Mercurial Steam Gauge, 385
Metals. Howden's Machinery for Cutting and 234
Morewood's Improvements in Coating, 361
Shanks' Machinery fur Forging and Shaping, 386
Meteorology, Telegraphs and, 425
Metropolitan Board of Works. 349, 361
Board of Works and their Surveyors, 417
Subway Railway, 424
Microscopical Section. 424
Milford Haven. 172, 344 11:IV011 and Mr. Page's Report., 889
Military Improvements, 113
Routine in the Ionian Islands, 205
Miller's Improvements in Blocking and Securing Ships. 316
Mills, Sugar Cane. 351, 369
Mineral 1Voalth of the United Kingdom, 110
Minors, Safety Cage for. 285
Mines, Bristol School of. 188
Dutton, Martin, and Phillips's Machinery for Preventing Accidents in. 413
Mining Machinery, Institute of Engineers, 261
Management, 99
Misfortune., of Invention, 137
Mississippi. Marvels of the. 186
Mitchell's Engine Speed indicator, 136
Mixing Cast iron, 137. 155, 227
Model of a Vessel at Bristol. Remarkable, 257
Molten Iron Broadsides. 399
Molten lion. Hollow Shot and, 202
Money-making, Agricultural, 471
Morewood's Improvements in Coating Metals. 364
Morse's Power Printing Press, 4z9
Motive Power, Alleged Now, 132
Power, a Wonderful, In Moulding Iron, Muir and Mcllwham's, 364
and Pressing. Broomall's Machinery. 443
at Stamp End Works, 74
Moulds for Casting. Gourlay's, 46::
Mount Cents, Piercing of. 372
Cenis, Tunnel through. 384
Movement, the Nino Hours'. 111
Mower and Reaper, the Buffalo, 20
Mowing Machines, Whitaker’s, 416
Muir and Mcllwham's Iron Moulding, 364
Mule, Crompton's Revolution of the, 211
Multitubular Boilers, 227
Munro's Chain Harrows, 459
Museum, the National, 412
Muswell Hill, Palace of the People, 67
Mutine Sloop of War, Launch of, 101

Nagasaki, 211
Naples to Corsica, French Telegraph from, Narrow Escape of an Express Train, 1St;
National Museum, the, 412
Naval Engineer Appointments, 401, 429
Engineers, 191, 459
Engineers, the Royal, 191
Trial Trips, 424
Navies, our Past and Present, 77
of the World at the Commencement of the Present Year, 41.5
Navigation and American Politics, Steam, 457
Ocean Steam, 64, 137, 2t;:, Navy, the, 259
the American Steam, 596, 464
Engineers in the Royal. 396
Fine Pitch Screws in the, 79
the French, 241
Increase of the. 41
a Rotten Vessel in the, 1S3;
the Russian, 397
the Spanish. 393
Now Steamships in the, 1S.3
Neapolitan Telegraphs. 413
Netley Hospital, 204, 212
Newbon, Smith, and Brown's 31achinery for Raising Weights, 13s
Newcastle and Cardiff Coal and Boilers. 96, 117, 134
Pumping Engine, 129
Newfoundland, Discoveries in. 179
New Guinea, Notes on a Voyage to. 1
Newington's Apparatus for Distributing Seed and Manure, 346
Nov Motive Agent, Solid Carbonic Acid. 31
Oilcans and the Southern States, Now Route to, 471
South Wales, Electric Telegraph, 4:44
South Writes, Iron and Coal in. 179
South Wales, Mechanical Progress in, 362
South Wales, Progress in. 449
South Wales, Public Works in, 111
Newspaper, the Largest ever Printed,

Newton's Condensing Apparatus, 114

Expansion Gear. ::6
Fish Hooks, 426
Governor for Marine Engines, 347
Ovens, 312
Steam Boiler and other Furnaces. 365

New York and Philadelphia, Passenger Railways through. 20
Railways, State Engineer's Report upon, 164
State Engineer's 'Chapter of Accidents" 169
Street Sweeping by Machines, j1t1
Street Tramways of, 351
Niagara Suspension Bridge, 179, 22Z,
Nichol, Professor, Death or, 23z
Niger Expedition, the, 3I42
Nile, Exploration of the, 41
Nino Hours Movement, the, 90, 111
Non-Freezing Oil, North Country mid Welsh coal, 21
Northam, Loss of the, 1S7
Northern Ocean Telegraph Expedition, 876
Northfleet Docks, 8, 61
North-road, Now, 331
Norton, Capt., Moro Inventions by, 411
Norway, Eccentric English in, P6
Notes and Memoranda, 3, 21, 39, 56, 75, 93, 113, 130, 148, 167, 1S6, 203, 221, 239, 237, 275, 311, 328, 345, 303, 381. 397, 411, 441, 457
Notes from the Northern and Eastern Counties, 17, 35, 53. 71, 89, 107, 127, 145. 183, 181, 199, 217, 235, 253, 271, 289, 307, 325, 341, 359, 377, 393, 408, 422, 438, 453. 472
Notices to Correspondents, 9, 27, 45, 63, 81, 09. 119, 137, 155, 173, 191, 209, 227, 245, 263, 281, 299, 317, 335, 351, 369, 387, 403, 417, 431, 447, 463
Nuts and Screw Bolts, Sonora' Machinery, 426
Nystrom's Hydraulic Pontoon Dock, 132

Oath from Chaff, Clark's Machine for Separating, 393
Obstructing Railway Trains, 79
Ocean Steam Nav4;ation, 64, 137, 155, 265 011, Non-Freezing, 351
Oxydised Linseed, 369
Paraffin°, 403
of Peppermint, 58
Omnibus in Paris, a Monster, 326
Omnibuses, 403
Ordnance into Breech-Loaders, Conversion of Common, 202
Electric, 107
New French, 166
Riding or Common, 166
Organic Colouring Matters, 292
Oriental Inland Steam Company, 309
Orlando, the Steam Frigate, 147, 212, 275
Oscillation of Screw Steamships, 401
Ossiferous Caverns of Devonshire, 37
Caves In Palermo, 55
Ovens for Iron Furnaces, Hot-blast, 91, 73, 109
Jones' Coke, 40
Joseph's Coke, 277
Newton's, 312
Oxydised, Linseed Oil, 369

Packing for Pistons. Roberts', 313
Paddle-wheels, Elder's, 77
Paintings from Marlborough House, Removal of. 262
Palace of Ice, 459
of the People, Maxwell Hill, 67
Palermo, Ossiferous Caves near, 55
Palmer's Railway Brake and Coupling Apparatus, 312
Paper, Manufacture of, 316
Tiles for Rooting, Tarred, 118
Paraffine Oil, 403
Paramatta, the Steamship, 139, 207, 266
Wreck of, 62, 397
Paris, 190
Academy of Sciences, 294
Improvement Around, 1S5
in 1860, 407
Steam Carriage in, 279
Passage of the Alps by a Railway, 265, 247, 230
Patent Agents not Patent Mongering, 298
Agents. Qualifications of, 348, 367
Derrick Company, 453
Law of Brazil. 219
Law, French, 9s
Law and Patent Mongering, 282, 297, 317, 319, 337
Laws, 264, 298
Tribunals, 9t3, 423
Patents, Infringement of, 317
for Inventions, 7.5
for Inventions for 1858, Report of the Commissioners of, 188
Peat, Hodgson's Manufacture of Fuel from, 115
Manufacture of, 81
Pearce's Weighing 31achines, 223
Pembroke Dockyard, 236
Pendulum Governors for Marine Engines, 95
Pendulous Fire-bars, 317. 846
Fire-bars, Stevens'. 280
Peninsular and Orient 61 any, 897. 416
Peen, John, Launch of the Dover Mail Packet, the, 471 11A
Pension to the Cort Family, 432
Peppermint. Oil of, 68
Perfection in machines, 24
Permanent Way Company the Great Northern Railway Company, 410
Way, Johnson, 94
Way, Rail Fastenings, 63
Way, Saxby's. 442
Way, Turnbull’s. 240
Way on the Vale of Neath Railway, 139
Perpetual Motion, 45
Persia, the Steamship. 205
Persistent Types of Animal Life, 260
Phenomenon, Atmospheric, 183
Phosphorescence, Fluorescence. 7
Photography, Applications of, 37
Photophore. Now Light, 151
Picture Galleries by tins, Lighting, S3
Piecework at Woolwich Arsenal, 79
Pier, Hopkins' Wrought Iron, 365
at Madras, New 53, 353
Piercing of Mount Cenis, 372
Pile Driver, Sissons', 2.2
Pile's Floating Docks, 262
Piling and Cutler Dams, 409
Pimlico, New Railway Bridge at. 400
Pistons, Critchley and Elston's, 169
Packing for, Roberts', 313
Sinclair's. 268
Smethurst's Metallic, 94
Pitman and the Queen, the, 372
Plane, Metallic, surfaces, or True Plano, 353
Plates, Boat, 367
of steam Dollars, 363
Plough, Fowler's Steam, 471
Ploughing, steam, 4U.S
by steam, 1
in the United States, Steam, 21:$8
Pneumatic Post Company, 342
Pocket Books, Engineer's, 27
Polonceau, M., Death of, 241
Polytechnic Institution, the, 34, 127
Portable Engines. 22, 45, i09, 384, 417, 431
Portland Harbour, 205
Ports, Commerce of British, 131
Portsmouth, Defence of. 40..1
Portuguese Railways, French and Spanish Influence on, 184
Postage stamps. Instrument for Severing, Damping, and Fixing, 416
Postal Service, Australian, 101
Poupard's Wheel-Skid or Shoe, 262
Power Printing Machines, 160
Printing Press. Morse's, 429
to Steam Vessels, Application of, 261
Premiums Awarded, Institution Civil Engineers, 33
Present and the Future, the, 45
Presentation, '200
Preservation of Iron Ships, 40
Press on the Great Eastern, the, 372
Pressing and Moulding, Brooman's Machinery for, 443
Pressure of the Atmosphere, 24
Gauge, the Deep Sea, 255
Gauge, New, 206
on Locomotive Guide-Bars, 99
Preventing Accidents in Minus. Machinery for, 413
Price anti Hawkins' Fish Plates, 330
Printing in America, Book, 60
Apparatus for Telegraphs, Dujardin's, 276
Machines, Power, 150
Press, Morse’s Power, 420
Prisoners, Employment of Discharge/l, 121
Problem of Locomotive Traction, 171, 173
Professorship of Civil Engineering, Appointment of Mr. W. Pole. 26
Progress of Engineering, 20
in Now South Wales, 449
Projectile, New, 25, 15v Propeller, the Chain, 165
Sir Howard Douglas and the Griffiths Screw, 173
Proportions. Locomotive, 191
Propulsion of American Tramway Carriages, 454
Steamboat, 43
for Steamers. a New Mode. 3S9
Steamship, 63, 78, 96, 115, 135, 171, 205, 278, 207, 299, 317,
Protection to Engine Drivers. 45
Prussian Railway Bridges, 205
Pseudo-diascope, 424
Public Health, 3413
Works in New South Wales, 111
Works of the United States, 165
Pumping Engine, American. 143
Engine, Newcastle, 129
Pump. Evans and Jones', 58
Winstanley and Kelly's, 426
Punching Machine, Johnson's Rail-Cutting and, 94
Machinery, Lees and Heap's, 114
Purification of the Thames. 270
Purifying the Thames by h:loctrIcity, 101
Queen, the Pitman and the, 372
Steamship, 186

Racing in the United States, Steamboat, 190
Raffaelle Drawings, the. 40
Railcutting and Punching Machine. Johnson's, 94
Rail Fastenings, Permanent Way. 63
Rails for an American Line, 345
Beattie's Guide, 398
Re-Manufacture of, 151
Railroad Axles, and the Forces they have to Resist, 167
Railway Accident, 141, 157
Accidents in Franco. 183
Accidents, Reports on, 204
Accommodations, Prospect of, 471
Across the Alps, 245
Across the Isthmus of Suez, Ship. 140
Antiquities, 222
Artillery, English, 159
Bars, Expansion of. 3s7
Bars for Street Railways, 150
Brakes. 234
Bridges, 138, 447
Chairs and Fastenings, Bow's. 58
Construction and Working, 157
Crossings, Denys', 346
Employment., Increase of. 450
Fatal Accident on the Great Western, 213
French, Receipts, 829
Gradients. 155. 335
Improvement, 174
Manslaughters, American, 166
Matters, 65, 92, 112, 131, 149, 175. 193. 213, 231, 329
Metropolitan Subway. 424
Passage of the Alps by, '211, 265, 217, 230
Receipt". 'Argo, 310
Rhino, 442
Riflemen, 400
Service in Franco, 472
Smoke on, 203
Smoke Nuisance, 166
Statistics, 399
Statistics, French, 194
Telegraphing, 21e)
Trains, Obstructing, 79
Travelling, the Perils of, 183, 412
Works, Foreign. 231
Works, Indian, 426

Railway:—

Ambergate. Nottingham, and Boston, 131
American, 262
Andover and Redbridge. 194
Belfast and County Down, 194
Blyth and Tyne, 131
Birkenhead, 149
lair Ingham and Stourbridge, 231
Border Union, 231
Boston and Sleaford, 194
Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds, 193
Brazilian, 257
Bristol and Exeter. 131
Bristol and South Wales Union, 175
Caledonian. 104
Cannock Mineral, 131
Carlisle and Silloth hay, 176
Charing Cross. 461
Cork and Bandon, 112
and Youghal, 176
Cornwall, 104
Don Pedro 11., 446
Dorset Centric, 176
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 149
and Drogheda, 131
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 149
East Anglian, 191
Indian, 329
Eastern Counties, 148
Union, 149
Edinburgh and Glasgow. 231
Perth. and Dundee, 194
Egyptian, 421
Ennis and Athenry, 231
Epsom and Leatherhead, 17t;
Exeter and Exmouth, 176
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 194
Glasgow and Oban, 231
and South-Western. 194
Gloucester and Dean Forest, 131
Grand Trunk, 364, 448, 458
Great Northern, 131
Northern and Western of Ireland, 194
Southern and Western, 112
Western, 112
Hereford. Ross, and Gloucester, 176
Illinois Central, 149
Italian Junction, 149
Lancashire and Yorkshire. 175
Lancaster and Carlisle, 176. 231
and Carlisle (Lease of), 467
Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction, 176
Limerick and Castleconnell. 101
Liverpool and Manchester, 313
Llanidloes and Newton, 194
Loudon and Blackwall, 131
Brighton, and South Coat, 66
and North-Western. 131, 191
and South-Western, 92
Tilbury, and Southend Extension, 149
Londonderry and Enniskillen, 131
Lynn and Hunstanton, 231
;Madras, 92, 194
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 60
Mary port and Owlish), 149
Melbourne and Hobson's Bay, 149
Metropolitan, 112
Mid-Kent, 131
Bromley, to St. Mary Cray, 194
Midland, 131
Great Western, 231
Mid-Sussex, 193
Monkland, 17.
Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford, 191
Newry and Armagh, 176
Warrenport, and Rostrevor, 170
Now York and Erie, 176
Norfolk. 176
North British, 194
Devon, 14$
Eastern, 112
London, 131
Oldham, Ashton, and Guide Bridge, 176
Ottoman, 257
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 112, 176
Redditch, 231
Rhymney, 175
Scinde, 231, 383
Sevenoaks, 231
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 119
Scottish (Dispute), 149
Shropshire Union. 254
Somerset Central, 112
South Devon, 194
Devon and Tavistock, 193
Eastern. 175
Staffordshire, 176
Yorkshire. 149
Stockport, Disley. and Whaley Bridge, 176
Stockton and Darlington, 112
Toulon to 31arseillea, 26
Ulverstone and Lancaster, 194. 333
Vale of Clwyd, 243
of Neath, 149
Waterford and Limerick. 149
Wells and Fakenham, 194
West Cornwall. 176
London, 194
Suffolk, 231
Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont, 193
and Furness Junction, 175
Junction, 175, 194
Railways, Cost of French. 402
Railways through Now York and Philadelphia, Passenger, 20
Railways. French and Spanish Influence on Portuguese, 184
in London. 119. 187
and Markets for the City, 876

RAILWAYS :—

Algerian. 3S0
City, 387, 369
City, Need of, 471
Cornish, 231
French, 115, 167. 376
French and Italian, 459
Horse, 169
India. 378
Massachusetts and New York Compared, 169
Neapolitan, 407
Now South Wales. 231
Now York, Report upon, 104
Piedmontese. 847
Portuguese, 77. 133, 409
Russian, 26. 120
Swedish. 427
United Kingdom, 147
Victorian. 110

Raising and Lowering Ships. White and Jenkins', of the Schooner Don. 183
Vessels at Sevastopol. 167
Weights, Newbon, Smith, and Brown's Machinery. 133
Ram, the Great. 111
the New Iron Steam, 2
Rams. Now Steam, 9
Randolph and Elder's Steam Engines, 32.9.415
Ranger, the. 407
Ransome, Frederick, on Water Glass, and its Application to the Fine Arts, 66
Reaper. (ice Mover)
Reaping Machines in Belgium. Trial of, 126
Machines in Franco. Trial of, 21. 101
Machines in the United States, Manufacture of, 394
Receipt-1, French Railway. 320
Large Railway. 316
Record of Wrecks, 193
Red See Telegraph, 77, 226
Sea and India Telegraph, 57
Refrigerators for Cooling Beer, &c., J. and J. Bennett's. 234
Regent's Canal into a Railway. Conversion of, 162
Register and Chart for 1858, the Wreck, 219
Reid and Milner's Improvements in the Construction of Ships. 108
Relics of Sir John Franklin, 223
Re-manufacture of Rails, 151
Re-patented Inventions. 163
Report or the Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions, 166. 287
of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, 185S, 188
upon the New York Railways, State Engineers
Reports on Railway Accidents, tr4
Welsh and Newcastle, 73
Reoulescnt in Pace, 299
Resistance, Fluid, 153. 281.332. 348, 351, 366
Steamship. 23. 43, 78. 81
Restoration of Damaged Letters, 256
Return of the Belly Interoceanic Canal Expedition, 54
Returns. Trade Navigation, 331
Revolving Fire-arms. Brooman's, 163
Rhino Bridge, the 216
Bridge at Strasbourg and Kohl, 22
Railway Bridge over the, 257
Railway tip 442
Rifle Corps Movement, 418
Company and the British Government, Sharp's. 1Z,0
Muskets, Manufacture of, 410
Ordnance Factory, Woolwich, Rifled Cannon, American. 76
Cannon. French, 158
Cannon at Woolwich, 150
Riflemen, Railway, 400
Rifles for Volunteer Corps, 403
Rifling of Cannon. 90
Common Ordnance, 166. 191
River Ganges, Steamers and Barges for, 348
Navigation, Australian, 23
Road Locomotives. 23. 83 '
Roberts' Packing for Pistons, 313
Robertson's Frictional Gearing. 208
Patent Chain Propeller. 285
Robinson Crusoe’s Island, a Visit to, 37
Rolling Mill Gearing, 447
Rolling Steel and Iron Who. Wright's Mode of, 241
Rotten Vessel the Navy. 183
Roman's Marino Engines, 77, 99, 1l9. 378
Royal Agricultural Society, 446

Agricultural Society at Warwick, 93, 74

Bounty Fund (Mr. Plummer), 458
Charter. the. 360, 351 •
Charter's Cables, 407
Charter Inquiry, 41.4
Charter, Iron *hips and the. 411
Charter. Loss of the, 369, 331
Charter, Treasure from the, 412
Commissions, Expenses of. 459

ROYAL GEORAPHICAL SOCIETY :—

Notes on a Voyage to Now Guinea, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.G.S.. 1

ROYAL INSTITUTION or GREAT BRITAIN :—

Colours of Shooting Stars and Meteors, by J. Hall Gladstone, Ph.D., F.11.5.. ALBA., 19
Earth's Internal Temperature. and the Thickness of its Solid Crust, by William Hopkins, 259
Persistent Typos of Animal Life. on the, by Thomas H. Huxley. Esq.. F.113.. 260
Phosphorescence. Fluoroscope°, &c., by Professor Faraday, D.C.L.. F.R.S.. 37
Ossiferous Caverns and Fissures of Devonshire, by William Pengelly, Esq., F.O.S., 37
Transmission of Heat through Oases of Different Kinds. by John Tyndall, Esq.. F.1LS.. 4269

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Intercolonial, 311
Royal Naval Engineers, 46
Russell, Mr. Scott, and the Great Eastern, 228
Russell's Working of Marine Engines, 382
Russia, Cost of Crimean War to, 200
Leather. 868
Machinery for, 133
Russian Navy, 897
Railway to ludic 811
Railways 26, 120
Paul Pry's, 291
Progress, 241
Safeguards against Fire, 345 Safety Cage for Minors, 28Z, Valve, Haste's, 206
Valves, 191
Sails. Mode of Attaching to the Yards of Ships, ii
Sale of Gas Bill, 162. 174
of Grain, 2, 51
Samuel and Nicholson's Marine Engines, 22
Sanatory Condition of the City, 20
Saxby's Permanent-way, 442
Saxon Railway Viaduct, 400
Schiele’s Anti-Friction Curve. 431
Scholfield and Cudworth's Spinning Machinery, 42;
School of Minos, Bristol, 153
of Art, 156
Science, 139, 140
Schooner Don, Raising of, 183
Sciences. Curiosities on, 83
Science to the Fine Arts, Application of, 3$
Instruction, Aid to, 20
Schools, 139, 140
The Triumphs of, 401
Scilly Islands, Telegraph to, 459
Scotland, Locomotives for, 92
Scotland, Railway Amalgamation in, 876
Scottish Matters, 1, 21, 39. 65, 82. 10011, 139, 158, 167, 185, 213, 221, 239. 257, 283, 292, 311, 338, 354, 380 401, 415, 429, 449, 457
Railway Dispute, 149
Society of Arts, 379
Scott's Surface Condensers, 458
Screw Bolts and Nuts, Sellers' Machinery, 426
Experiments. the Griffiths, 22
Frigate, the Arrogant, 270
Frigate Galatea, 216
v. Paddle, 116
Propellers, 45,'119
Ships, Our. 185
Ships for Passengers. Fast, 459
Steamer for the Greek Government, 77
Steamers, Vibration in, 119
Steamships, Kars and Silistria. Loos of two, 90
Steamships, Oscillation of. 401
Steamship Windsor Castle, 185
Stocks, Williams and Fuller's, 846
Vessels. Manoeuvring of, 285
in the Navy, Fine Pitch, 79
Seamen's Agricultural Implements, 402
Sea Serpent, the. 132
Sickness and the Great Eastern, 1S6
Sebastopol. News from, 74
Sunken Skips at, 171, 4Z4
Seed and Manure. Apparatus for Distributing, 346
Seine. Royal Mail Company's Steamship. 207
Seller’s Machinery for Making Screws, Bolts and Nuts. 426
Separating Oats from Chair, Clark's 3Ia,:hine, 333
Serpentine, the, 40
Cleansing the. 111, 119, 130
Suva of the, 143
Sevastopol, Raising Vessels at, 157
Sewage for Agricultural Purposes, 363
Deodorisation of. 184
Sewerage Apparatus, Whitelaw's. 118
the Middle Level, Piccadilly Branch, 430
North Side, the Middle Level, 396
Shad's', the Turkish Steamship of War, 276
Shanks' Machinery for Forging and Stamping Metals, 886
Shannon, Trial of. 100
Shaping Machinery, Howden's. 299. 335. 309, 387
Sharp's Breech-loading Repeating Fire-arms. 151
Sharp's (C. J.) Rifle and the British Government, 150
Shaw's Indefinite Feed Movement, 132
Shipbuilding, Iron, 328
Ship Canal Project in Canada, 441
Ship, the Last Great, 168
Shipments in 1858, Coal, n6
Shipping, 30
American. 20
Ships' Blocks,
Hussey’, 208
Bottom, Composition for Coating, 37t;
Fast Screw, 459
Iron, 428
Iron Sided, 157
Large. 443
Miller's Improvements in Blocking and Securing. 318
Our Screw, 185
and Vessels. Construction of, Reid and Milner's,
of War, Iron, 463
White and Jenkins' Raising and Lowering, 224

Shot and Molten iron. 13011.1w, 202
Shuttles. Dixon and Whittaker's, 205
Siemens' Electric Telegraph Apparatus. 253
Supports for Telegraphic Wires, &c.. 295
Signalling System. Now, 351
Signals, Batty's Railway, 399
Coston's Night. 347
through Long Submarine Cables, Retardation of, •231
Silicates, on Soluble (British Association), 23
Silkworms, a Long Journey for, 459
Sinclair's Pistons. 25S Singapore to Australia. Telegraph from, 193
Sinnock's Machine for Making Telegraphic Cables, 413
Sisson's Pile Driver, 262
Slips, Grissell's Machinery for Moving Vessels on, 190
Slotting Machines, Variable Circular 5lotiou fur, 413
Small Arms Factory. Royal, 20
Smethurst's Metallic Pistons. 94
Smithery at Stamp End, the. 51
Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 409
Dead Meat Market. 362
Smith's Cultivating Implements. 412
Smoke-burning Apparatus. Frodsham's, 76
Consumers, D. B. Clark's, 256
Consumption, 270
Consumption of, on Railways. 57, '243
Nuisance, Railway, 166, 203, 403
Prevention, 281
Smoking in Railway Carriages, 457
Snow Blockade on the North British Railway, 45.-;
Soap for Vessels' Bottoms, Green Metallic,

SOCIETY OF ARTS :—

Anniversary Dinner. 1
Great Eastern, W. Hawes, 439, 455
The First Ordinary Meeting of the 106th Session, 301

Society Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 411, 445

SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS:

Breakwaters and Harbours of Refuge. 1S3
Mining Machinery. by E. Edwards, Esq., 261
Piling and Coffer Dams, on, by F. W. Bryant. 409
Softening and Purification of Water, by Dr. Clarke's by J. Glynn, jun., 1

Society of Foremen Engineers, 297
Royal Agricultural, 448
Societies, Friendly. 26
Solar Radiation, 43
Spots, Phenomena of Groups of, 343
Solvent, a Remarkable. :?6
Sound. Self-regulating of the Vibration of. 319
Southampton craving Dock, Enlargement of, 363
South Kensington Museum. 8, 22, 47.56. 63. IA. 140, 157, 169, 186, 226, 240. 270, 283, 293, 319, 329 350, 361, 407, 415, 426. 440. 459
South Wales Iron and Coal Trades, 19, 342
Spain, Population of, 76
Spanish Navy, 398
Spans in Railway Bridges, Great, 400
Specifications, Abridgments of, 279
Speculation. a Good, 490
Speed and Accommodation of River Boats, S35
Indicator, Mitchell's Engine. 136
Speeds, High Railway, 281. 24v. 318, 370
Spencer's Springs, 4
Spinning Machinery, Scholfield and Cudworth’s, 427
Spitsbergen, Notes on. 38
Spontaneous Combustion of Coal. 328
Springs and Buffers. Brown's, 45S
Emery's Carriage, 383
Gatwood's, 25v
Spencer's, Manufacture of, 4
Spurgeon's New Tabernacle, Mr , 'JO
Stage Coaches v. Steam, 77
Stamp End, Boiler Department, 57
the Smithery at, 51
Works, the, 44
Works. Moulding at. 74
Works, Threshing Machine Department, 140
Stars and Meteors, Colours of Shooting. 19
Static and Dynamic Deflection of Bridges, 189, 207, 203
Statistics, Austrian, 311
of Brazil. 376
a Coincident Period in American, 4.11
French Railway, 194
Railway, 399
Stays, Boiler, Brooman’s, 293
Steam Boiler Explosions, 140, 113
Boiler Explosions, Association for the Prevention of. 21
on Canals, 292
Carriage in Paris, 279
Carriages on American Street Railways, 461
Case. the, 349, 367, 460
on Common Roads, 449
Communication with Brazil, 400
Cases, the Cornish Engine, 363, 414
Cultivation, 358
Density of, 335
Drying by, 209
Economical Formation of, 21
Engines, Burgh's, 154
Engines for City Railroads, 286
Engines, W. and W. McNaught, 172
Evans and Soames' Apparatus for Superheating, 383
Fire Engine, American, 75
Fire Engine, Berlin, 173, 191
Fire Engines, 28, 108, 439
Frigate Orlando, the New. 147, 212, 275
Getting up the, 310
Hammer, 404
Hammer, Extraordinary, 298
Jacket, the Cornish Engine and, 207
Lamb and Summers' Apparatus for Superheating, 41
Navigation at Hull, Report of the Progress of, 25
Navigation, Ocean, 137
Packet Express, Wreck of the Jersey Mail, 232, 237
from Pipes, Discharge of, 9, 27
Ploughing in the United States, 288
Pressure, 43
Proportion of, 60. 78
Power to the Cultivation of the Soil, Application of, 3
Ram, 9, 25, 43
Ham, Now Iron, 24
Regulating the Pressure and Flow of, Harris Apparatus. 168
Superheated, 246, 403, 442, 206, 227, 396
at all Temperatures, to Determine the Density of, 310
Total Heat of, 424
Trap. Mather's, 22
Tug, Explosion, 226
Whistle, 299, 3 1 7

Steamboat Racing in the United States, 190 Travelling in America, 113
Steamboats on the Thames, 458
Steamer, Accident to the Dispatch, 270
Launch of a Large New Screw, 389
Winans', or the Cigar-shaped, 37, 139, 440, 458
Voyage of a Small Steel, 159
Wreck of the Bride, 172
Steamers, Armed Merchant, 21
and Barges for the River Ganges, 243
Brazilian, via Milford Haven, 4E8
The Canadian, 394, 471
The Collins', 94
Fate of the Collins', 72
The Galway. 899
in India, 168
Largo River, 369
Light Draught, 19
A New Mode of Propulsion for, 389
Steamship, Adela, 179
Amphion, 184
What an Australian should be, 471
Chevy Chase, 222
Delta, the Now, 283
Dividend, 177
Economy, 191, 207
The Greatest Ocean, 407
Line from Liverpool to the West Indies, 213
Paramatta, 207, 256
Persia, 205
Power and Resistance, 10
Propulsion, 43, 63, 78, 96, 115, 135, 171, 278, 297, 299, 317, Queen, 186
Resistance, 23, 43, 78, 81, 99
Seine, Royal Mail Company's, 207
Shadia, the Turkish, 276
Thunder and Economy of Fuel, 415
Windsor Castle, 75
Windsor Castle, Screw, 185
Steamships, 8, 100. 432
to the Brazils, 208
Decay of Wooden, 399
Engines for the Callao, Lima, and Bogota, 291
in the Navy, New, 185
Performance of, 327
in the Sea Trade, 172
the Vanderbilt, American, 902
Steam Vessels, 319
Vessels, Application of Power to, 261
Yacht for Egypt, Now, 216
Steel and Wrought Iron, Experiments on the Strength of, 411
Experiments on Iron and, 444. 400
into France, Importation of, 327
Manufacture of Cast, 213
Manufacture of, 248
Now Applications of. 411
and Wrought Iron, Strength of. Steamer, Voyage of a Small, 159
Stelvio Pass, the, 31
Stephenson. Robert, 273, 379, 384, 40.1
and Brunel, 314
and Brunel Monuments, 448
Robert, Funeral of, 309
Robert, and the Great Eastern, 403
Robert, Will of the late. 331
Mr., on Submarine Cables, 101
and their Workmen, Messrs., 442

Stevens' Pendulous Fire-Bars, 280
Stevens, Mr. Lee, Fire-Bars, 299
Stopper for Chains and Ropes, Wardill's, 115
Storms, a Paper on, 379
on, 427
Strains in Braced Girders, Calculation of, 440
upon Hoisting Tackle. 263
Streets, New Process for Watering. 172
Street Hallways, Bars for, 150
Tramways, Loudon, 165
Tramways, 330
Tramways of Now York, 381
Sweeping by Machines, Now York, 346
Strength of Iron Vessels. 333
of Steel and Wrought Iron, Experiments on, 411
of Steel and Wrought Iron, 42S of Wheels, 155, 170
Strike, the Building, 99, 118, 185, 212, 330
Strikes, 130, 213
Strychnine, Poisoning with, 277
Subaqueous Operations, 236
Submarine Boat, 185
Cable, Electrical Induction in, 152
Cables, Durability of, 166
Cables, Mr. Stephenson on, 101
Telegraphs, 117 •
Telegraphy, 170, 242, 277, 315, 460
Suez Canal, 121
Ship Railway across the Isthmus of, 140
Sugar Making in Cuba, 83
Making Machinery, 119
Cane Mills, 369
Mills, 351
Sunflowers, Cultivation of, 36
Sunken Fleet at Sebastopol. 171
Ships at Sebastopol. 454
Superannuation, Civil Service. '225
Superheated Steam. 240, 403, 442
Steam in the P. and O. Company's Ships, 409
Superheating Steam, Lamb and Summers' Apparatus, 41
Apparatus, Beardmore's, 112, 137, 206, 205, 227, 883, 396, 403, 458
Supports for Telegraphic Wires, &c., Siemens', 295
Surface Condensation, 189, 209. 443
Condensers, Pontifex's External, 22
Condensers, Scott's, 458
Surfaces or True Planes, Plane Metallic, 353
Surveying Field Book, 114
Swansea Docks, Opening of, 239
Trade of, 30
Switch Box and Gear, Carrie', 4

Tangye's Hydraulic Presses, 23
Taps (see Cocks). 90
Tarred Paper Tiles for Roofing. 118
Tasmanian Submarine Cable, 423
Taylor's Looms, 331
Tea-plant in the United States, 216
Tea Trade, Steamships in the, 172

Telegraph

from Alexandria to Constantinople, 274
to America by the North of Scotland, 79
to America by Scotland and Iceland, dm., 384
Apparatus, Siemens' Electric, 258
the Atlantic, 147
Australian, 212, 412
Channel Islands, 401
Companies, Government and the Indian, 47
to Denmark, 72, 75
Electric, New South Wales, 459
Expedition, the Northern Ocean, 376
Falmouth and Gibraltar, 102, 244, 261, 263,277, 296, 314
The First, 107
between France and Algeria, ]88
by Way of Iceland, North Atlantic, 212
Indian, 262, 331, 407,459
between Liverpool and Holyhead, 462
from Naples to Corsica, 896
Red Sea, 67, 77, 226
to the Scilly Islands, 459
from Singapore to Australia, 193
Across the Straits of Gibraltar ,421
Transmundane. 8
Cable, Mr. Hoarder's, 270
Cable, Isle of Man, 166, 234

Telegraphic Cables,

Machine for Making, 413
Communication with India, '212
Wires, Siemens' Supports for, 295

Telegraphing, Railway, 216
Telegraphs, Dujardin's Printing Apparatus of Railway, 270
Telegraphs, French, 185, 243
Mediterranean Submarine, 349
and Meteorology ,425
Neapolitan, 413
Submarine, 117
Telegraphy, Submarine, 170, 242, 277, 315. 460
Temperatures of the British Islands, Irregularities in the Winter, 328
Temperature for July, 108
Tenders with Water, Supplying Locomotive, 206
Tents, the New Army, 133
New, Major Rlio,les,,S0
Tertiary Deposits Associated with Trap Rocks in the East Indies, 38
Thames and the Atmosphere, 117
Cleansing the, 24
Condition of the 20, 34
Deodorising and Embanking the, ::60
by Electricity. Purifying the, 1C1
Flow of the. 45
Purification of the, 270
Tunnel to be Turned to Account at Last, 399
and the Water Supply, 399
Threshing Machine Department, Stamp-End Works, 140
Thunder in a Clear Sky, 72
and Economy of Fuel, Steamship, 415
Tide, is there an Atmospheric, 310
Tiles for Roofing, Tarred Paper, 118
Timber, Colonial and Home Grown, 283
Titanium, the Metal, 303
Tod's Marino Engines, 349
Toulon, French Works at, 157
Ton, Weight of, 219
Toys, German. 421
Traction Engines, 314
Engines, Barrens', 150, 207
Engine, Boydell's, 99, 224
Engine, Boydell's, for Egypt, 207
Engine, Boydell’s, and Endless Railway, 140
Engines, Bray's, 151, 407
Engines and Carriages, Burrell's, 26
Problem of Locomotive, 134, 152, 171, 173, 278, 097
Trade, the Coal, 213
Marks, Counterfeit, 325
and Navigation Returns, 331
Prospects of, 187
of Swansea, 30
Traffic, French Railway, 421
Returns. 12, 30, 39, 66, 83, 93, 112, 131, 149, 176, 195, 213, 319, 329, 349, 385, 420, 449, 457
Tramways, 385
American City, 400, 440
in the City, 445
in Dublin, 441
in Irish Towns, 280
Tramways. London Street, 155
Street, 330
Transmission of Heat through Gases, &c., 260
Transmundane Telegraph, 8
Travelling, Railway. 1$
Trent. it New Railway Bridge across the, 77
Trial of the Hood, 90-Giiii Screw, 401
of the Shannon, 100
Trips. Naval, 424
Troops by Railway. Movement of, 399
Trucks for Locomotive Engines, Bissell's, 80
Tubes in Boilers, Comparative Value of Horizontal and Vertical, 224
Collapse of, 351
to Collapse). Calculating the Resistance of, 396
Tubular Boilers, Evans', 23
Tucker's Bit Stocks, or Auger Handles, 258
Tunnel. American Railway, 260
through Mont Con's, 381
Tunnelling Machinery, 24
Turkish Steam Corvette. Now, 400
Turnbull's Permanent Way, '240
Turner's Registered Vice, 133
Steam Engines. 118
Type-Composing Machine, Young's, 367
Founding, 56
Tyres, Farnley Iron Company's, 130
Steel Railway, 130

Undersunk Foundations, 110
United Kingdom, Mineral Wealth of the, 110
States, Emigration to the. 56
States, Manufacture of Reaping Machines, 391
States, Public Works of. 165
States, Railroad Disasters, 80
States, Steamboat Racin4 in the, 190
States, Steam Ploughing in the, 28S States, the Tea pliant in the, 216
Upright Boilers, 403
Urn's Dictionary. 400
Valves for Blast. Furnaces, Air, 365
Safety, 191
Vanderbilt American Steamships, 402
Vases, Wilkins' Flower, 241
Vasserot’s Governor, 155
Pendulum Governor for Marine Engines, 95
Vegetation, Artificial Light on, 3o)
Ventilation of Coal Mines, 241
Colliery, 63
Vernon Gallery, the, 421
Vertical Boilers, 31.7
Fire with Arrows or Bolts, 227
Vessels' Bottoms. Green's Metallic Soap for, 429
Vessels, Steam, (or the Ganges, 389
Iron, 335
Lines of, 332
and Ships, Reid and Milner's Construction of, 168
Vessels on Slips, Grissell's Machinery for Moving, 190
Stem, 319
Viaduct, the Crumlin, 402
Viaducts, Saxon Railway, 400
Vibration in Screw Stoan3ors. 119
Vibrations of Sound, Self-registering of the. 319
Vice, Turner's Registered, 133
Victoria Bridge, Canada. 167, 1S3, 316, 386, 409. 431
Bridge, the Grand Trunk Railway and the, 445
the Gold R :turns of, 139
Launch of thc.363
Station. the, 7‘
Voltaic Pile, Improvement in the, 396

Walking on the Water 294, 317
Wall of London, the, 21
War, Cost of the late, 232
in Italy. the late, 115
Steam-vessel, New. 413
Wardell's Stopper for Chains and Ropes. 115
Warner, Derbyshire, and Maun's Cocks or Taps, 40
Warne’s Insulation of Telegraphic Conductors, 44G
Warry's Breech Loading Gun, 76
Warwick Meeting, 27
Washing and Churning Machinery, Bradford's, 459

Water to Air,

Exposure of, 9
Apparatus. Aerated Fresh, 360
Outings for Funnels, 351
Circulation in Boilers, 97
Gas, 6r
Glass. 2
Glass, its Application to the Fine Arts, 66
in Lighthouses, 259
Pressure Engines, 351
Pressure Engines, Amos and Francis'. 186
Resistance of, in Steam Navigation, 238
Softening and Purification of, 1
Supplying Locomotive Tenders with, 206
Supply and Purification of, 291
Supply, the Thames and the, 399
Supply and Water Power. 348
to Towns, Supply of, 385
Walking on the, 294, 317
Wheels.401
Streets. Now Process for, 172

Waterman's Steam Packet Company, 40
Waterworks. Gosport. 150
Loch Katrine. 213
the Origin, Progress, and Present State of the Government, 361
Trafalgar-square Government, 414
Wax Tree, the, 203
Weather, the Sky an Indicator of the, 446
Weights, Balancing, 155, 173
Weighing Machines, Pearce's, 223
weight of a Ton, 219
Wright's Mode of Rolling Stool and Iron Wire, 241
Weights, Newbon, Smith, and Brown's Machinery for Raising, 133
Welsh Iron and Coal Trades, 253, 154
Welsh and Newcastle Reports, 7$
West Indies, Steamship Lino from Liverpool to the, 213

Westminster.

the Great Bell of, 44. 250, 299
Bridge, New, 77, 211. 311, 8s1
Clock, 216
Clock, Chimes of, 1S4
Clock. to Wind up by the Motion of the Tide,

Wetherhed's Superheating Apparatus, 208
Wheel Skid or Shoe, Ponpard's, 262
Wheels, Baillie’s Railway.
Strength of, 155. 170
Whistle, the Steam, 299, 317
Whitaker's Mowing Machines. 416
Whitelaw's Sewerage Apparatus. 113
White and Jenkins'. Raising and Lowering Ships, 226
Wilkin’s Flower Vases 241
Will of the late Mr. Brunel 326
Of the late Robert Stephenson, 331
Williams and Fuller’s Screw Stocks And Die's, 346
Wilson's Lead Pipe Machinery, 462
Winans' Steamer, a New, 440
Windmills, 296
Windsor Castle, Screw Steamship, 75, 1S5
Wines. California, 31
Winstanley and Kelly's Pumps. 426
Wolverhampton Waterworks. Artesian Well in the New Red sandstone at the. 2$5
Waterworks Company, Hawksford, 359
Women. Railway Employment for. 400
Woolwich Arsenal, 276. 341
Woolwich Arsenal, Piecework at the. 79
Hospital, Circumlocution at, 139
the Rifle Ordnance Factory, 113
Rifled Cannon at, 150
Sham Battle at, 44
Workmen's Children, Education of, 229
Works at the Cape, 407
Foreign Railway, 231
in India, Public, 295
the Stoop End, 44
at Toulon, French, 157
of the United States, Public, 105
Wreck of the Argo, SO
of the Bride Steamer. 172
of the Eastern Monarch, 203
of the Jersey Mail Ste.tm Packet Express, 232, 237
of the Paramatta. C2, 397
Wrecks, Record of, 193
Wreck Register and Chart for 1858, 219
Wright’s Gas Regulator, 427

Yacht Aigle, the Emperor's, 133
Yankee Traveller, the, 23
Young's Typo Composing Machine, 367

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