Boilers, marine, Dundouald's pat., 286 



Boilers, steam, Black's pat., 304 



Bone-crushing machine, 283 



Bookbinding, ancient and modern, Cundall on, 29 



Boppart, gothic window at, 129 



JJoring and sinking, Card's pat., 170 



ftowstring girder-bridges, 1, 200 



Brandreth, Lt.-col., death of, 96 



Brasses, monumental, Archer on, 30 



Brazilian war-steamer, Affonsv, 317 



Break and engines, Taylor's pat., 76 



Break, Chaplin's pat., 114; Heath's, 304 ; Hep- 

 burn's, 32 ; Laignet's triple, 92 ; Lister's, 304 



Breakwater in Plymouth sound (rev.), 121 



Brees's railway practice (rev.), 57 



Brett and Little's railway communicator, 30 



Briant on overcoming break of gauge, 30 



Brick and tile traffic on railways 333 



Bridge at Saltash. for the Cornwall railway, 96 



Bridge, balance, Sadler's pat., 75 



Bridge, bowstring tubular, 1,300 



Bridge-building, improvements in, 318 



Bridge, Clifton suspension, 3l8 



Bridge, Conway tubular, 95, 126, 154, 161, 318, 

 351 



Bridge, Cowper's inverted arch, 8 



Bridge, Graiuger's cast-iron skew, 62 



Bridge, Huugerford suspension, 3, 292 



Bridge, overarch suspension, Milne's, 32 



Bridge over the Wye, 127 



Bridge, suspension, at the falls of Niagara, 199 

 288 



Bridges, Buchanan on strength of, 125, 153 



Bridges, Clark, on wing walls of, 43 



Bridges, construction of, Moulton's pat., 23 



Bridges, on the most ecoDomical forms of sus- 

 pension, 2 



Bristol, sewage and drainage of, 90 



Britain, alteration of outline of coast, 186 



British architects, royal institution of, 29, 00, 89, 

 124,150,186,221,380 

 „ association, proceedings of, 284, 308 



British isles, hydrographic map of, 315 



Brittern's pat., heating, lighting, and ventilating, 

 370 



Britton, on " Letters of Junius" (rev.), 315 



Broad and narrow gauge, Briant on uniting, 30 



Broad gauge, litigation on, 96 



Brockedon's pat. india-rubber joints, 380 



Bronzing metal surfaces, Salzedes pat., 169 



Bronzing of metals by electricity, 127 



Brown, on Irish wants and remedies (rev.), 214 



Brown's improvement in compass, 381 



Bruce's antiquarian and genealogist's companion 

 (rev.), 27 



Brunton's pat. for dressing ores, 214 



Brussels lace, 32 



Bryson's lubricant for machinery, 155 



Buchanan, on strength of materials, 125, 153 



Buchanan's marine hydrometer, 91 



Buckingham-palace, 7. 36, 257 



Buckle, on the fan blast, 18 



,, on bone-crushing machine, 283 



Buddhist architecture, Fergusson on, 124 



Buft'er, Be Bergue's pat., 247 

 „ Cheshire's safety, 184 



Buflers, effects of, 197, 292 



Builders' foremen, institution of, 96 



Building traffic on railways, 334 



Buildings in towns, regulation of (rev.), 27, 55 



Bunnell's pat. sewer trap, 25 



Burgess, on theatres of ancient Rome, 233 



Cai!n, its quarries and buildings, 89 



Caen stone, Donaldson on, 94 



Cambrian engine, 380 



Candidus, on the rival palaces, 36 



Candidus's note-book, 5, 41, 65, 97, 130, 162,193, 



220,257,290,321,354 

 Carbonic-acid-gas engine, 178 

 Carbonising wood by high-pressure steam, 320 

 Carlton-club designs, 127 

 Carriages, railway, collision of, 197, 292 



„ Dunn's pat., 169 



Carriage traffic on railways, 307 



INDEX. 



Carriage-wheels, railway, Evans's pat., 189 



Carrying stock, Loudon and North-Western Rail- 

 way, 367 



Caserta, palace at, 7, 36 



Casks or vats, nose-cock for, 185 



Cast and wrought-iroa bridges, Buchanan on, 



125, 153 

 Casting wrought-iron, Rocke'spat., 216 

 Cathedral at Florence, 29 



„ of LlandafT, Wyatt on, 141 

 „ St. George's, 290 



Cattle traffic on railways, 243 



Cement, experiments on, 294 



Cement, newly discovered, 319 



Central railway station, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 353 



Centre-vent reaction water-wheel, 110, 171 



Centrifugal force, eliect of, 261 



Chance's pat. reverberatory furnace, 304 



Channel, English, floating tunnel across, 218 



Channels, English and Irish, on the tides of, 147 



Chapels, new, 255 



Chaplin's pat. railway break, 114 



Chapman, on gothic window at Boppart, 129 



Chat-moss, drainage of, 315 



Chemical and electrical forces, Faraday on, 219 



Chemical character of steel, 314 



Chemical principles of geology, Daubeny on, 146 



Chemistry of the sea, 160 



Chesshire's safety-buffer, 184 



Chloroform, a substitute for steam, 191 

 „ solvent power of, 188 



Chrimes' pat. firecock, 107 



Church, new, South Hackney, 255 



Circular sawing, 318 



Cisterns, stop cock for, 185 



Civil engineers' college. Putney, 192, 256 



Civil engineers' institution, 61, 90, 122, 155, 185, 

 221, 283 

 „ at the Hague, 127 



„ Irish, 63 



Civil and military surveyors, 198,255 



Clamps, jointing, Kimberley's pat., 373 



Clarke and Varley's pile-driving machine, 341 



Clarke's railway statistics, 241, 268, 333, 366 



Clark, on cross-sections of railways, 67, 137 

 „ on embankments for reservoirs, 197 

 „ on isometrical perspective, 294 

 „ on level of distant objects, 230, 264 

 „ on wing-walls of bridges, 43 



Clegg's pat. gas meters, 368 



Cleghorn's ancient and modern art (rev.), 73 



Clifton suspension bridge, 318 



Clock registering machine. Sharp's, 63 



Coad's pt. for combustion of fuel, 216 



Coal beds in South Wales, 313 



Coal bed on fire, 320 



Coal drops at Bliddlesbro' docks, 105 



Coal formation, fossil footmarks in, 86 



Coal gas, Hoffman on composition of, 157 



Coal mines, prevention of accidents in, 127 



Coal, report of experiments on, 273 



Coal traffic on railways, 208 



Coast levels, Portlock on, 314 



Coast of Great Britain, alteration of outline, 180 



Coffeepot, Waller's pal., 115 



Coflerdam, portable, Stevenson's, 02, 231 



Coinage, observations on, 315 



Coke ovens, Blichaut's pat., 246 



Coke traffic on Railways, 270 



Cole's pat. high-pressure steam-engine, 342 



Coleraine, removal of a mill at, 63 



College for engineers at Putney, 192, 256 



Collision of trains, 196, 292 



Colonial railways, 96 



Colonial surveying, AVhiteheadon (rev.), 140 



Colouring and preserving wood, Renard's pat., 143 



Commission of sewers, 32, 39 



Compass, Brown's improvement in, 381 



Composite ellipse. Hay on, 185 



Composition of coal gas, Hoffmann on, 157 



Compound beams or girders. Fielder's pat., 189 



Condenser and boiler, Craddock's 182 



Condenser, dry, Price's 284 



Condenser, Schiele's pat., 114 



Construction of bridges, Moulton's pat., 23 



„ Greek architecture, Penrose, ISO 



Consuming smoke, Kyan's pat., 113 

 Contributions to railway statistics, 241, 268, 333, 



366 

 Conversazione, Mr. Angell's, 186 ; Mr. Field's. 



221 

 Conway tubular bridge, 95, 126, 154,161, 318,351 

 Cooper's glass-blowing apparatus, 92 

 Copper ores, Rivot's smelling process, 347 

 Copper sheathing, 256 

 Copper smelling furnace, estimate of cost, 340 



„ in Norway, 320 



Copper traffic on railways, 270 

 Copying electric telegraph, 191, 317 

 Council of health of Paris, 345 

 Coupling-irons, Pratt's pal., 372 

 Cousens, Mr., charge of extortion against, 255 

 Cowper's inverted arch bridge, 8 

 Cox, on study of mechanics, 223 

 Cox, on suspension-bridges, 2 

 Cox's notes on engineering, 2, 199, 258, 292 

 Craddock's boiler and condenser, 182 

 Craddock,on workingexpansive steam-valves, 141 

 Crampton's pat. locomotive-engine, 48 

 Crane's improvement in railways, 32 

 Cresy's evidence before sanitary commissioners, 



59,81,115 

 Cundall, on book-binding, 29 

 Cutler's pat. iron-tubes, 248 

 Cylinder- boring machine, Beyer's, 88, 182 



Dagcerreotype CAMERA, plate-holder for, 155 

 „ plates, 223 



„ effects of light on, 248 



Daubeney, on geological chemistry, 146 

 Davidson's elevator and fire escape, 92 

 Davies's pat. rotary steam-engine, 370 

 Decomposing power of water 181 

 Decorative arts, ^t'allace'spat., 303 

 Decoration, lectures ou, at school of design, 96 

 Decoration, polygonar, 91 

 Dee viaduct, 317 

 Deflection or vibration gauge, 1 

 Denne's pat. lubricating composition, 169 

 Designs for Carlton club house, 127 



„ schools and schoolhouses (rev-), 57 

 Design, government school of, 96 

 Diamagnetic condition of flame and gases, 187 

 Diamond, conversion of, into coke, 287 

 Diaphragm double sewer, Moffatl's pat., 372 

 Dinting vale viaduct, by A. S. Jee, 35 

 Dissertation on torrents, by Guglielmini, 59 

 Dividends, railway, 90 

 Divining rod. Penny on, 224 

 Docks and port of Birkenhead (rev.), 68 

 Docks, Birkenhead, 318; Grimsby, 318; Mid- 

 dlesbro', 105; Plymouth, 318 ; Sunderland, 288 

 Docks, on the entrances to, by J. Redman, 123 

 Dog traffic on railways, 367 

 Donaldson, Prof., on caen stone, 94 

 Dotting electric telegraph, 256 

 Douche's pat. application of heat, 303 

 Doull, on railways and railway legislation 72 

 Dover refuge harbour, 287 

 Drainage and sewage of Bristol, J. Green on, 90 

 Drainage of part of chat-moss, 315 



„ Niagara river, 191 



„ marshes by steam, 301 



Drain-tiles, new trenches for, 320 

 Dry condenser. Price's, 284 

 Dublin terminus, fall of roof, 63 

 Dundonald, Earl of, pat. steam-boiler, 286 

 Dunn's pat. railway-wheels and jacks, 169 

 Dutlon's railway communicator, 30 

 Duty on timber, 160 

 Dwyer, on ancient pottery, 91 

 Dyer, Charles, death of, 90 

 Dyer's tincloria, on the cultivation of, 31 



Earthwork tables, Baker's (rev.), 74 



„ Bashforth's (rev.), 296 



„ Cox's, 199 



„ Sibley and Rutherford's, (rev.) , 



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