INDEX TO VOU 'Ml-. /. 



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KILNS. 



va, brick and pottery, applica- 

 f regenerative gas furnace to, 



VI. 



!i, F. W., Allen governor and 

 thiuttlc-viilve for steam-engines, 

 discussion of paper by, 159-161. 



LAMPADIUS, gas investigations of, 

 181. 



atelier, his method of freeing 

 steam from water, 80 ; invention 

 of Contre- vapour system, 165; 

 reference to labours of, 165. 



Link motion doomed, 174. 



Liquid fuel, 125 ; arguments in 

 favour of, 126 ; combustion per- 

 fect with, 131 ; distilled from coal, 

 127 ; evaporative power of, 126 ; 

 grates for, 131 ; practical and 

 theoretical results with, 125 ; price 

 of, 127 ; progress of, 130 ; sources 

 of supply of , 131; superiority of , 

 to solid, 131. 



Liquid gyrometer. See Gyrometer, 

 liquid. 



Liquid in rotation, 111 ; curve 

 formed independent of specific 

 gravity, 111 ; equations of, 112 ; 

 formula for curve formed by, 111 ; 

 paraboloid produced by, 111. 



Lloyd and Summerfield's application 

 of regenerative gas-furnace, 175- 

 177. 



Low-pressure engines. See Regene- 

 rative condenser for. 



Lurmann, gas-generating furnaces, 

 discussion of paper by, 175-177 ; 

 gas-producers criticised, 175, 177. 



MAKSHALL, W. P., suggestions as to 



experiments on steam, 18. 

 Material theory. Sec Heat. 

 Mayer on heat, reference to, 32. 

 McCarter condenser, criticism of, 167. 

 Meadows, J. McC., peat fuel ma- 



chincry, discussion of paper by, 

 ir,r, in;. 



Mil<l steel. N^v Steel, mild. 



Morin, Gen., experiments with re- 

 generative steam-engine, 162. 



Morton, A., ejector condenser for 

 steam-engines dispensing with 

 air-pump, discussion of paper by, 

 157, 158. 



Motion, heat manifestation of, 30. 



Murdoch, J., illuminating gas pro- 

 duced by, in 1792, 181. 



NEWALL & Co.'s trial of regenera- 

 tive steam-engine, 61. 



Newcomen's condenser, 11, 167. 



Newton. See Refrigerating ma- 

 chinery. 



Non-condensing steam-engines, 4. 



OPEN fireplace, method of heating 

 by, 191 ; regenerator applied to, 

 188 ; ventilation by, 191. 



PAMBOUR'S expansion curve of 

 steam, based on Watt's law, 24. 



Parker, W., experiments to burst 

 steel boiler, 173. 



Paul, B. H., liquid fuel, discussion 

 of paper by, 125-127. 



Peat, application of, 166 ; charcoal 

 from, 166 ; conversion of into gas, 

 166 ; drying of, 166 ; fuel, import- 

 ance of, 167 ; use of, in locomo- 

 tives, 166. 



Perfect engine, 47, 54, 162 ; and 

 actual engine compared, 38 ; cha- 

 racteristics of, 46, 54 ; cylinder, ca- 

 pacity of working for, 55; difficulty, 

 practical, of, 71 ; expansion, infi- 

 nite in, 47, 55 ; impractical nature 

 of, reason of, 55 ; losses of heat in, 

 reduction of, 47 ; regenerator, ap- 

 plication of, to, 47 ; theoretical 



