Dressing straw bonnets, Howell's machine, 94 



Drilling metal, Watney's pat., 151 



Drying and seasoning wood, Davison's process, 



310 

 Drying closet, Middlesex liospital, 159 

 Dry rot, extraordinary instance of, 303 

 Dundee competition, 43 

 Duration of wood, experiments on, 383 



Earthenware Piping, 62 



Earthwork, scale for measuring, Huntington's, 12 



Earthworks, Neville on sloping hanks, 364 



Easton and Amos's double-action pump, 213 



Eccentric sheetmelal and wire gage, Roberts's, 



Economy of railway transit, Samuel on, 374 



Edge-tools, improved method of tempering, 288 



Edinburgh police office, ventilation of, 159 



Education of engineers, 42, 337 



Electricity, Staite's pat. improvements, 53 



Electric clock, Blackie's, 29 



Electric light, Le IVIolt's pat., 89 ; Payne's, 127 



Electric telegraph, copying, Bakewell's, 217, 311 



Electric telegraph, Holmes ou, 28 



Electric telegraph, printing by, Highton ou, 92 



Electric telegraph wires, Ricardo's pat., 118 



Electro-magnetic coil machine. Dr. Wright's, 158 



Enamelled cast-iron pipes, 62 



Enamelled copper, manufacture at Canton, 278 



Enamels for iron. Stumer's 302 



Enderby, on Auckland islands (rev.) 318; 



Southern whale iishery (rev.) 318 

 Enfield steam-carriage, description and working 



of, 374 

 Engine, expansive steam, Newton's pat., 369 

 Engine, expansive steam, Pearce's, 350 

 Engine, (ire, M'hite's pat., 61 

 Engine, pumping, Newton's pat., 281 

 Engine, Richmond waterworks, 165 

 Engine, rotary, iVIcGauley's, 314 

 Engine,steam and hydraulic, Woodcock's pat., 1 78 

 Engine, vapour, Du Trembley's, 7 

 Engines for American mail steamers, 191 



Engines, hydraulic pressure, Glynn on, 28 



Engines, locomotive, Cranipton's pat., 157, 184 



Engines, locomotive, oscillation of, Heaton on, 308 



Engines, locomotive, Thornton and McConnell's 

 pat., 176 I 



Engines, marine steam. Main and Brown (rev.) 

 121 



Engineers and the health of towns question, 358 



Engineers' college, Putney, 320 



Engineers, education of, 42 



Engineers, Institution of Civil, 35, 60, 93, 121, 129, 

 156, 114, 222, 382 ; award of prizes, 61 



Engineers, Institution of Mechanical, 61, 180,278, 

 297, 315, 374 



Engineering, hydraulic, 149 



Engineering, civil, Clegg's lecture, 337 



Engineering, notes on, XII. 34 ; XIII. 107 



Engineering, quarterly papers,Weale (rev.) 167 



England, ancient pulpits, F. Dollojan (rev.) 225 



England, new survey of, 320 



England, public works — Canals,214,246; Docks, 

 284; Lighthouses, 247 



English built war steamers for Austria, 288 



English locomotives in France, 192 



English patents, list of new, 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 

 192, 224, 256, 2S8, 320, 352, 382 



Entrances to docks, Redman on, 129 



Equilibrium or balance-valve fur locomotives, 29 



Euclid's elements of geometry, Tate (rev.) 328 



Euston-square railway station, 192 



Envelopes, Remond's machine for manufacture, 

 191 



Erskine's valve nose-cock, 350 



Erwood's pat. paper-hangings, 301 



Evans's steanuvalves, 52 

 Evaporation from the soil, Buist on, 288 

 Ewbank, on paddles of steamers, 210, 231 

 Excavations at Fountains Abbey, 255 

 Exhibition at Birmingham, 314 

 Exhibition of arts, national, 347 



INDEX. 



Exhibition of machinery at Ghent, 191 

 Expansion of liquids, Rankine's formula of, 348 

 Expansive action of steam, Fairbairn on, 315 

 Expansive steam-engine, Newton's pat., 369 

 Expansive steam-engine, Pearce's, 350 

 Expansive steam-engines, Pearce's, 383 

 Experiments at Woolwich, 31, 383 

 Experiments on duration of wood, 38S 

 Experiments on railway axles, McConnell's, 375 

 Experiments, submarine telegraphic, 61 

 Experiments on seysselasphalte at Plymouth, 352 

 Experiments on gutta percha tubes as water ser- 

 vice, 255 

 Explosion of fire-damp, Richardson on, 121 

 Exposition of 1849 at Paris, 282 

 Exposition of products of French industry, Wyatt 



on, 353 

 Express engine, Stephenson's, 184 

 Extraction of metals, Hunt's pat., 56 



F 



Fairbairn, on Britannia and Conway Tubular 



Bridges, (rev.) 251 

 Fairbairn, on expansive action of steam, 315 

 Fairbairn, on water-wheels with ventilated buck- 

 ets, 232 

 Fall of railway viaduct at Preston, 352 

 Faraday, on crystalline polarity of bismuth, 30 

 Fastnett-rock lighthouse, 128 

 Fergusson and the British Museum, 196 

 Fergusson, on philosophy of nature and art (rev.) 



2, 17, 44, 73, 110, 143 

 Fergusson, on the church of the holy sepulchre, 92 

 Fergusson's history of the pointed arch, 254 

 Fergusson's system of fortification (rev.) 227 

 Field's, (Mr.) conversazione, 185 

 Filter for towns, Stirling's, 159 

 Fire annibilator, Phillips's, 127, 346 

 Fire-cock, Bateman and Moore's, 166 ; Forester's 



83 ; Lambert's, 155 

 Fire-engine, White's pat., 61 

 Fire-proof buildings, Braidwood on, 121 ; Fox 



and Barrett (rev.) 318 

 Fire-proof flooring, Beardmore's pat., 120 

 Flexible breakwaters and lighthouses. Smith, 380 

 Flexure, resistance of posts to, Houpt on, 302 

 Float-wheels, trapezium, Rennie on, 259 

 Floating railway bridge. Frith of Tay, 181 

 Floors, lime-ash, 64 



Flooring, fire proof, Beardmore's pat., 120 

 Fonlainemoreau's pat. veneer cutting and joining, 



115,152 

 Force of screw-drivers, 62 

 Forchhammer, on formation of dolomite, 342 

 Forester's pat. hydrant or fire-cock, 83 

 Form and sound, Purdie (rev.) 318, 332 

 Formation of hydraulic limestones, Kublman, 286 

 Form in architecture and decoration, (rev.) 332 

 Fortification, Fergusson's new system (rev.) 227 

 Fountains abbey, excavations at, 255 

 France, law for patentees in, 350 

 Francis's pat. sawing and cutting wood, 299 

 French steamboats on the Rhine, 384 

 French exposition of industry, Wyatt, on, 353 

 French fleet, armament of, 318 

 French navy, 352 



Fuel, compression of, Buckwell's pat., 368 

 Friction curve, Schiele's improvements, 186 

 Furnaces and stoves, Newton's pat., 56 



G 



Gainsborough iron-girder tubular bridge, 255 

 Gallery, National, and British Museum, 274 

 Galvanic batteries and magnets, Staite's pat., S3 ; 



Wallenn's, 344 

 Galvanic batteries, zinc deposits of, 127 

 Ganges steam navigation, Robinson (rev.) 49, 86 

 Gardner's iron bridge girders, 250 

 Gas and water meter, Parkinson's pat., 311,336 

 Gas burners, self-lighting, Strode's, 191 

 Gas improvements, Croll's pat., 150 

 Gas manufacture, profits on, 383 



Gas-meter for new houses of parliament, 31 

 Gage, sheet-metal and wire, Roberts's, 312 

 Gauge, vacuum and steam, Stillman's, 169 

 Geology of the Lake district, Rooke (rev.) 318 

 Geometric design, Billings (rev.) 30 

 George's (St.) Hall, hollow brick ceiling, 158 

 Gerbier's (Sir Balthazar) advice to builders, 153 

 Ghent, exhibition of machinery at, 191 

 Giant's staircase, Venice, 4 



Gibbons on law of dilapiJations and nuisances,221 

 Gibbons's pneumatic lift, 297 

 Girderbridge, Gainsborough, 255; Thompson's,57 

 Girder, Gardner's iron bridge, 250 

 Glasgow and Edinburgh national bank, 257 

 Glasgow, model dwellings for workmen, 350 

 Glass blowing apparatus. Cooper's 350 

 Glass-colouring bv metallic oxides, Arnoux on, 

 343; Bontemps,343; Faraday, 343; Pellatt,157 

 Glass for optical purposes. Cooper, 122 

 Glass, kelp, manufacture of, Cooper, 350 

 Glass-meltiug furnace, Cooper, 350 

 Glass, pat. decorative, 286 



Glass, ellect of oxygen ou colour, Pellatt on, 157 

 Glass silvering by gun-cotton, 191 

 Glass silvering, Drayton's pat., 251 

 Glass staining and enamelling. Cooper on, 350 

 Glaziers' machine, Howell's, 187 

 Glazing of hothouses &:c., Cooper on, 187 

 Glue, liquid, 288 



Glynn, on hydraulic pressure engines, 28 

 Glynn's reference-book to railway companies, 120 

 Godwin's buildings and monuments (rev.) 167 

 Gold, chlorides of, preparation of, 319 

 Gold mines in Wales, 63 

 Goodwin sands, neacon on, 256 

 Gordon's pat., ventilation of mines, 372 



Gothic ornaments, Colling (rev.) 225 



Gothic architecture of Germany, Dr. Whewell 

 on, 379 



Government shipbuilding, 85 



Government steamers, armament of, 384 



Grantham, on abbattoirs of Paris, 93 



Grantham, on public slaughterhouses, 51 



Gravity, centre of in locomotives, 21(i 



Great Britain steamer, sale of, 127 



Gregory's safety-valves, 5 



Greek architecture, Candidas on, 97 



Green and Newman's pat. railway-wheels, 334 



Greener, on iron and steel manufacture, 3C6 



Greensted church restoration, 120 



Greenwich hospital, 33 



Grimsby docks, cofl'erdara at, 382 



Grove, on voltaic ignition, 126 



Groynes at Sunderland docks, 156 



Guildford drainage, 191 



Gun-carriages, Woollett's pat., 371 



Gun-cotton a motive power, 160 



Gun-cotton, glass silvering by, 191 



Guruej's steam jet for ventilation of sewers, 351 



Guttapercha, new kind of, 302 



Gutta percha pattern-book of ornaments (rev.) 120 



Gutta percha, peculiar property of, 159 



Gutta percha tubing, 160 



Gutta percha tubing for water service, 255, 256 



H 



Haarlem Lake, drainage of, 320 

 Hall, on warming and ventilation of dwelling- 

 houses, 158 

 Hann's elements of plane trigonometry (rev.), 318 

 Harbour of refuge, Dover, 62, 204 

 Harbour screw-cramps, Stevenson on, 61 

 Harrison, on obstructions in tidal rivers, 223 

 Hart's pat. prevention of smoky chimneys, 23 

 Hartig's experiments on duration of wood, 383 

 Hawkshaw, construction of permanent way, 185 

 Hay tor granite, 253 



Health of towns question and the engineers, 358 

 Henderson's pat. metal casting, 335 

 High Level bridge, Newcastleon-Tyne, 216, 287 

 High-pressure steam. Seaward on, 222 

 Highton's electric printing telegraph, 92 

 Hoby, on construction of permanent way, 180 



