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L\DEX TO VOLUME I. 



BLOOMING FUBNACES. 



Blooming furnaces, application of 

 regenerative gas furnace to, 93. 



Boiler of Watt's engine, 51. 



Boilers, application of Landore mild 

 steel to, 170 ; bursting steel, im- 

 possibility of, 173 ; encrustation, 

 how formed in, 136 ; iron riveting 

 injurious in steel, 171 ; riveting 

 plates of steel in, mode of, 170. 



Boiler feeding, 78, 80. 



Boulton and Watt's condensing 

 engine compared with expansive 

 air-engine, 38. 



Boyd, W., steam-boilers, experiments 

 relative to, discussion of paper by, 

 170-173 ; steel, failure of in 

 boilers, experiments on, 170. 



Brix, experiments on quantity of 

 heat in steam, 19. 



Bunsen on dissociation, reference to, 

 204. 



Bye-products from illuminating gas, 

 186. 



CALOEIC engine, 28 ; theoretical 

 consumption of, 28. 



Carbonic oxide and carbonic acid, 

 relative heating powers of, 133. 



Carnot on heat, reference to, 32. 



Carnot's theory, 59. 



Cavendish Society, publication of 

 Eegnault's experiments by, 20. 



Chance's glass-works, application of 

 regenerative gas-furnace at, 89. 



Chemical energy, production and 

 application of. 177. 



Cheverton, B., heated air, use of as 

 motive power, discussion of paper 

 by, 26-28. 



Chronometric governor. See Gover- 

 nor, Chronometric. 



Chubb, C.J., coal-getting machinery, 

 discussion of paper by, 128-130. 



Circuit system of pneumatic trans- 

 mission, 147 ; advantages of, 155. 



Clapeyron on heat, reference to, 32. 



COMBINED VAPOTJE ENGINE. 

 Clansius on conversion of heat into 

 mechanical effect, 59 ; on steam 

 condensation, 33, 34. 

 Clerk, D., gas-engine, theory of. dis- 

 cussion of paper by, 203-206. 

 Cleveland ironstone, reduction of, 



in blast-furnace, 134. 

 Clock regulated by liquid in rota- 

 tion, 115 ; action of, 116 ; descrip- 

 tion of. 116 ; formula to determine 

 velocity of cup with continuous 

 overflow, 118 ; table of comparison 

 of with chronometer, 119. 

 Coal, casualties in getting, 128 ; cost 

 of per horse-power per annum, 52 ; 

 economy in use of. 52 ; expendi- 

 ture and possible saving per annum 

 of steam, 52 ; getting, force ex- 

 pended in, 128 ; machines for 

 working and breaking down, 128 ; 

 wedging and blasting, 128. 

 Coke, advantage of, as fuel, 181 ; 

 making treated too lightly, 

 101. 



Coke ovens, 99 ; Appold, 100 ; con- 

 version of ordinary into close, 99 ; 

 for production of heating and il- 

 luminating gases, 101 ; primitive, 

 99 ; quality of coke in, 99 ; regene- 

 rative, 100 ; semi-cylindrical hori- 

 zontal, 100. 



Coleman, J. J., air refrigerating 

 machinery and its applications 

 discussion of paper by, 192-203. 

 Combined steam, 76 ; advantage 



of, 77 



Combined steam and ether engine, 

 45 ; additional effect of, how 

 otherwise attainable, 45 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 45 ; practical difficulties 

 of, 45. 



Combined vapour engine, 69 ; advan- 

 tages of. 71 ; causes influencing 

 result in, 70 ; comparison of. with 

 expansive steam-engine, 70, 71, 72 ; 

 disadvantages of, 71 ; extra power 

 of, obtained by expansive work- 



