INDEX. 



A. 



' ABORTION of the Young Steam Engineer's 



Guide' . . .43 



Achard . . .30 



Agricultural purposes, engines for . 282 



Air . . . .86 



and steam mixed . . 84, 86 



engine . . .8 



motion of . .87 

 - pump . 24, 25, 86, 167, 170, 190 



proportion of . 167 170 



power required to work 170 172 



rods . . 242 



-for fires . . 119, 120 



flues . . .134 



regulator . . .138 

 Alcohol vapour, force of . 30, 32, 39, 72 



engine . . .34 



latent heat of . . 53, 55 



effect as fuel . .109 



Ammonia . . 55, 79, 82 



Amonton's engine . 8, 16 



Apparatus for boilers . .135 



Arsberger's, Professor, experiments on high 



pressure steam . . 71, 72 



Ash pit . . . .115 



Atlantic steam navigation . App. 101 



remarks on App. 24 



Atmosphere, pressure of . . 80, 89 



Atmospheric engine 9, 10, 23, 24, 36, 96, 149, 185 



effect of . 33, 34, 36 



improved . 40, 189 



piston . . 216 



Austen, Capt. Horatio . App. 82 



Ayre's, Richard, contrivance for preventing 



engines from running off a railway 403 



B. 



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Banks, John . . .33 



Baldock, Lieut., his form of steam journal 



App. 3139 

 's memoir of H. M. steam ship the 



Medea . . App. 80 100 



Barlow, P., of the Royal Military Academy, his 



reports of experiments on steam vessels 



App. 63, 64 



Barlow, P. W., on steam vessels App. 40 



Barton's piston . . .219 



stuffing boxes . . 222 



Beale, J., his rotary engine (Plates 71, 72) 401 

 Beam, working . . . 10, 20 



angular movement of limited . 24 1 



strength of . . 242 



Beauty essential to perfect engines . 202 

 Beighton, Henry . . .12 



Behdor, Bernard . .15,210,211,215 



Bell, Henry . . . 44, 45 



steam navigation in Britain success- 

 fully introduced by .45 

 Berenice, Hon. East India Company's vessel 



(Plates 70 A, 70-B, 95, 96) 400, 471 



Bettancourt . . 32, 63, 211 



Bevan, B., experiment by . . 294 



Black, Dr. Joseph . . . 21, 49 



's definition of latent heat . 21, 48 



capacity for heat . 21 



Blake, Francis . . .18 



Blakey, John . . . 24, 128 



Blowing through . . .199 



machines . . . 281 



Boats, steam . . 14,31,313,316 



steam engines for . 312, 313 



canal 294 



