INDEX. 



249 



Table of Southern's experiments on the 



force of steam . . 70 



Taylor's experiments on pure water ibid 



scale of force of steam ibid 



Arsberger's experiments on high 



pressure steam . 71 



Ivory's calculations . . 71, 72 



force of alcohol vapour . 72, 74 



Cagniard's, de la Tour, experiments 



on ether . . .75 



force of ether vapour . 75, 76 



Ure's and Dalton's experiments on 



ether 

 force of vapour from sulphuret of 



carbon 

 Cagniard's, de la 



76 

 77 



78 

 79 

 ibid 

 82 



Tour, experiments on 



force of petroleum 



force of turpentine 



mechanical power of gases 



various substances where one vo- 

 lume of water is shown to produce 

 more vapour than an equal volume of 

 any other substance in the list . 83 



Roy's experiments on air and steam 86 



effect of contractions . . 88 



the effect of combustibles 109, 1 10, 111 



- the effect of fuel . 112,113 



quantity of smoke from fuel . 115 



quantity of fire surface for boilers 118 



experiments on boilers 119,120 



power of boilers . 1 23, 1 24 



- for calculating safety valves 142, 143 



- of the power of cranks 228 230 



the teeth of wheels . . 244 



the effect of engines . . 278 



the supply of towns with water 280 



experiments on canal boats 294, 295 



for calculating the resistance of ves- 

 sels . . . 296 

 of steam vessels . 316,317,318 



the properties of steam . 322 



the proportions of single engines 323 



the proportions of double engines 



324, 325 

 Tappets . . 187,224;265 



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Taylor's, Philip, scale of the force of steam 70, 178 



Taylor and Martineau . . 178 



Teeth of wheels . . .244 



Thomson, Dr. T. . 110, 114 



Thrashing machines . . 283 



Throttle valve . 27, 210, 261 



Tonnage of a steam vessel . . 320 



Towing boats . . .41, 315 



Towns, supply of water for . . 280 



Trevithick and Vivian . .41,141 



Turpentine vapour . . 55, 79 



U. 



Ure, Dr. 44 



's mode of experimenting . 54, 67 



tables of experiments on the force of 



steam . . .69 



experiments by 54, 74, 76, 79, 168 



Useful effect, mode of measuring . 269 



V. 



Valves 



safety 



rule for 



throttle 



Kingston's 

 arrangement of 



principles of construction 



boxes 

 rising 

 clack 

 foot 

 flat 



Bramah's slide 

 conical 

 Field's 



Hornblower's 

 sliding 

 rotary 



plate 



modes of opening 



Vapour, force of 



175, 203 

 139 



App. 210 

 261 

 353 

 204 

 ibid 

 ibid 

 204 

 205 

 ibid 

 ibid 

 207 

 205 

 262 

 206 

 207 

 210 

 213 

 224 



. 56,57 



