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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



Sei/.isel Agphalte. — The Seyssel Asphalte property i^ ocinipyiug the gentlemen of 

 the long robe tii France, iinil if, appeai-s doubtful IJ-oin what has transpired whether 

 there existed any right to transfer it to a company. It is very unlnrtunate thr.t this 

 was not found out earlier, as, whatever may be its olhi'r applications, the asphalle 

 has paved the way to much gambling and serious niislurtuuc to the shareholders. 

 No mines of guhl. silver, nor copper, e^■er excited more sanguine speculation. — IhifL 

 Htart of O'tk. — One of the piles used in the fi.mulatiou of the old bridge at 

 Lancaster was taken out a short time .since, and found to be " as sound as an acorn," 

 allhough it nnist have been under water at least 900 years. 



Prei:err(i/ion of Sculpture. — Experimeul.s are in progress at the Ecole des Beaux 

 Arts at Pai'is, with some oily substance to be used for the preservation of marbles 



and worlis of art, which suffer so much in the weax and tear of a great metropolis. 



O'afiifnaiii's Mtssent/er. [We do not know whether this is one of our neighbours' 

 reinventions of old English inventions anew ; but some years ago Henning, the 

 sculptor used a coating of wax on the triumphal arch in the Park, and hitherto with 

 complete success. ] 



The newly inrenleiVi'ijht of M. Gaiulin, on which experiments were recently made 

 at Paris, is an improved modification of the well-kno«n invention of Lieutenant 

 Drummond. Wliile Drummond pours a stream of oxygen gas through spirits of wine 

 upon unslaked lime, Graudin makes use of a more ethereal kind of oxygen, which he 

 conducts through burning essence of turpentine. The Druumiond light is fifteen 

 bundi-ed limes stronger than thatof bm-niuggas ; the Gaudin light is, we are assured, 

 by tlie inventor, as strong as that of the suu, or Ilftceu thousand times stronger than 

 gas, and of course ten times more so than the Dnimmond. The method by which 

 M. Gaudin proposes to tm-n the new indention into use is smgularly strildng. He 

 proposes to erect, in the island of the Pont Neuf, in the middle of the Seine and 

 centre of Paris, a lighthouse five hundred feet high, in w hich is to be placed a light 

 from a hundred thousand to a million gas pipes strong, the power to be varied as the 

 nights are light or dark. Paris will thus enjoy a sort of perpetual day; and as 



soon as the sun of the heavens is set, the sun of Pont Neuf will rise Mt'ckaiiics' 



^lagazine. 



NEW PATENTS. 



LIST OF ENGLISH PATENTS GRANTED BETWEEN THE 26Tn 

 NOVEMBER, ANlJ THE 24th DECEMBER, 183S. 



John Small, of Old Jewry, Merchant, for " Improvements in the Maiuifacture of 

 Thread or Yarn, and Paper, by the Application of certain fibrous Materials not 

 hitherto .so employed." — 1st December ; 6 months to specify. 



Peter Tavlou, of Birching Bower, in the County of Lancaster, RopeMalcer 

 and Slate Merchant, for " Improvements in Machinery for propelling Vessels Car- 

 riages, and Machinery, Parts of which Improvements are applicable to raising of 

 Water." — 1st December; 6 months. 



Ambrose Bowdex Johns, of Plymouth, Artist, for " Improvements in colouring 

 or painting Walls and other Surfaces." — 1st December; 6 months. 



James Hartley, of Bishop Wearmouth, Glass Maniifacturer, for " Improve- 

 ments in tlie Manufacture of Glass." — 1st December ; 6 months. 



Theodore Cotelle, of the Hayraarket, Civil Engineer, for " Improvements in 

 Extracting the Salt from Sea or Salt Water, and rendering it pure or drinkable, and 

 in Purifying other Water." — 1st December; ti months, 



John Plaver, the younger, of Longhor, near Swansea, Glamorgan, for " Im- 

 provements in Furnaces and Fire-places, for Consuming Anthracite and other Fuel 



for generating Steam, Evaporation, Smelting and Heating Iron and other Metals." 



1st December ; 6 months. 



William Pontifex, of Shoe Lane, in the City of London, Coppersmitli, for 

 "Improvements in Apparatus and Materials employed in Fdteriug and Clarifying 

 Waters and other Liquids." — 1st December; 6 months. 



John McCurov, of Tonbridge Place, New Road, Esquire, for " An Improved 

 Method or Methods of Generating Steam and applying the same to the Evaporation 

 and Boiling of Fluids, which Metliod or Methods is or ai-e applicable to Steam 

 Engines and other Purposes where Steam is or may be applied." — 1st December; 

 6 months. 



Stanislaus D.^hthez, of Austin Friai's, in the City of London, Merchant, for 

 " Certain Improvements in the Construction and in Arrangement of Axles, Axle- 

 trees, and the Naves of Wlieels for Carriages." — 1st December; 6 months. 



John Shaw, of Glossop, Brass Worker, for " Certain Improvements in the 

 Arrangement and Construction of Wind Musical Instruments." — 1st December; 

 tJ months. 



Luke Hebkrt, of Camden Town, Civil Eu^neer, for "An improved Mode or 

 Modes of Fastening Trowsers and other Parts of Dress or Apparel." Communi- 

 cated by a Foreigner residing abroad 1st December ; (i months. 



Daniel Chandlee Hkwitt, of Store Street, Bedford Square, Professor of Music, 

 for " Certain Improvements in Musical Instruments." — 6th December; 6 months. 



•loHN Chisholm and Marin Hyppolite Bellenois, of Pomeroy Street, Old 

 Kent Road, Manuiactui-ing Chemists, for " Improvements in treating Massicott, 

 Litharge, and other Compounds of Lead, for the Purpose of obtaining therefrom 

 Silver and certain otlier Products." — 6th December ; H months. 



GoDFROY C.A.VAIGNAC, of Tavistock Row, Covent Garden. Gentleman, for "Im- 

 provements in Apparatus for transporting Materials for various I'urposes from one 

 Place to another, particularly applicable to Road Cutting and otlier Embanlnnents." 

 — 6th December ; 6 months. 



Thomas Sweetapple, of Cotteshall Mill, Godalniing, Papermaker, for " An 

 Improvement or Improvements in the Machinery for Making Paper."— 6th Decem- 

 ber ; 6 months. 



Frederick Neville, of Paneras Lane, in the City of London, Gentleman, 

 for " An improved Method or Process of Manufacturing Coke, whereby the Sal- 

 ammoniac, Bitumen, Gases, and other resident Pi-oducts of Coal are, at the same 

 time, separately collected, and the Heat employed in the Process is applied to vai'ious 

 t>ther useful Purposes." — 6th December; 6 montli:*. 



Miles Berry, of Chancery Lane, Patent Agent, for " Improvements in the 

 Means i.f, and Appai-atus for, Manufacturing Gaseous Liquids, and for filling Bottles 

 and other Vessels used for holding the same, and rttaiuing theconfc:'ts therein, and 

 applyini? tho same when required." Communicated bv a Foreigner residing abroad." 

 — (JthlDecember ; 6 mouths. 



James Carson, of Liverpool, Doctor of Medicine, for " A ney? Mode of Slaughter- 

 ing Animals intended for human Food." — 12tli December; 6 months. 



Thomas Robinson Williams, of 61. Cheapside, CMvil Engineer, for " Certain 

 Improvements in Machinery for Spinning, Twisting, or Curling, and Weaving 

 Horsehair, and other Hairs, as >vell as various iibrous Substances." — 12th 

 December ; 2 months. 



HicNRY Count de Crouv, of Picardy, in the Kingdom of France, now 

 residing at 14, Cambridge-street, Edgeware Road, for " Certain Improvements in 



Filtration." Comnuiuicated by a Foreigner residing abroad 12ih December; 



2 months. 



Ji>HN Alexander Eleazar Desgrand, of the Boulevart du Temple, Paris, 

 now residing in Paul's Chain, in the City of London, Civil Engineer, for " Improve- 

 ments in the Production of Motive Power, and in Macldnery, for applying the 

 same to useful Purposes." — 12th December ; 6 months. 



James Gardner, of Banbury, Ironmonger, for " Improvements in cutting 

 Swedish Turnips, Mangel Worzel, and other Roots used for Food for Sheep, homed 

 Cattle, and other Animals." — i2ih December; 6 months. 



Thomas Vaus, of Woodford, Land Surveyor, for " Improvements in Tilling and 

 FertiUsing Land.'' — I5tli December; 6 months. 



Crofton Willia:\i Muat, Putney, for " An improved Mode of applying Horse 

 Power to Carriages on ordinary Roads " — 17th December ; 6 months. 



Barclay Farqi^iiarson Watson, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Solicitor, for " Im- 

 provements in Crushing or Preparing New Zealand Flax." — 17tli December; 

 G months. * 



Edwin Edward Cassell, of Millwall, Poplar, for " Improvements in Lamps." 

 — 17th December ; 6 months. 



Job Cutler, of Lady Poule L;iiie, Biniiingham, Gentleman, for " Improvements 

 in Combinations of Metals jipplicabb- to tin- maliing of Tiil>es or i'ipes, and to other 

 Purposes, and in the Method i4 Making Tubes or Pipes therefiom, which improved 

 Method is apphcahle to the Making of Tubes or Pipes from Certain other Metals 

 and Combination of Metals." — 17tli December ; 6 months. 



James Lees, of Salem, near Oldham, iu the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinnei-, 

 for " An Improvement in the Machinery for Spinning, Twisting, and Doubling 

 Cotton, Silk, Wool, Hemp, Flax, and other fibrous Materials." — 17th December; 

 6 months. 



John Hawkshaw. of Manchester, Civil Engineer, for " Certain Improvements in 

 Mechanism or Appai-atus ap[ilicable to Railways, and also to Carriages to be used 

 thereon." — I7th December ; 6 months. 



Benjamin Goodfellow, of Hyde, in the County of Chester, Mechanic, for 

 " Certain Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Planing or Cutting Metals." 

 — 18th December ; (^ months. 



John Roberts, of Manchester, Machine Maker, for " Certain Improvements in 

 Machinery or Appai'atus for Planii^ or Cutting Metals." — 18th December ; 

 6 montlis. 



John Radcliffe, of Stockport, Machine Agent, for "Tlie Application of an 

 improved Covering for the Rollers used in the several Processes of Preparing 

 Drawing, Slubbing, Roving, Spinning, Twisting, and Doubling of Wool, Cotton 

 M'ool, Flax, Silk, Mohair, or any other fibrous Material or Substance, or so many, 

 of such Hollers as require, or are deemed to requu-e covering for such several Pro- 

 cesses, or any of them. ' — 10th December ; 6 montlis. 



Joseph Zambeai;, of St. Paul's Churchyard. Chemist, for *' Improvements 

 iu Rotatory Engines." Communicated by a Foreigner residing abroad. — I9th 

 December ; 6 months. 



Andrew Smith, of Princes Street, Leicester Square, Engineer, for " Certain 

 Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Fluids and Generating Steam." — 20tli De- 

 cember ; 6 months. 



Samuel Parker, of Argyle Place, Lamp Maker, for " Improrements on Stoves." 

 — 20th December ; 6 mouths. 



CAur, AuiiiSTTs Holm, of Mincing Lane, Engineer, and John Barrett, of 

 Vauxhall, Printer, for " Certain Improvements in Prio ting. "—20th December ; 

 6 months. 



Daniel Stafford, of 25, St. Martin' s-le- Grand, in the City of London, Gentle- 

 man, for "Certain Improvements on Carnages, behig an extension for the term of 

 seven years, from the 21th day of December." — 21st December. 



EKRATA. 



In the last number, page 403, in the description of Roe's patent water closet basin 

 there is an error in lines 10 and 11 ; it states that "this chamber is alicays krjif charged 

 with water ;' it should read, " tlie chamber is onlj/ charged with water when the 

 handle is lifted, tlie water at tlie same time being discharged all round the basin." 



Page 405, in the ride for converting French measure, line 0, describing the method 

 of reducing francs into pounds, instead oVaM twoiigures," read "cw( oif two figures." 



TO CORRSSPONDENTS. 



Our correspondent respecting Dover Hiirbour, will hear from us liy post. 



Our correspondent at ('armarthen is informed that there i.s no defined dimension 

 f >r slating called " Queens" — both Queen's and Rag's vary in size from iwu to four 

 feet iu length, and from 18 inches to tliree feet in width ; the average size is ;iG inches 

 by 24 inches ; they are sold by weight, and not by the thousand. 



" One of the Public" will be noticed next month. 



M'e cannot notice Prospectuses of Companies at length, unless paid fur as 

 advertisements. 



Subscribers are ]>articuliuly requested to complete their sets of numbers for the 

 first volume immediately. 



We shall feel obliged to the profession if they will forward us accounts of works 

 m progress, new inventions and discoveries; and particularly if our country sub- 

 scribers will send us any new.spapcr containing any matter relative to the objects of 

 our Journal. 



Books fur review must be sent early in the month; communicalions prior to the 

 ■20th ; and advertisements before the 20th instant. 



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