INDEX. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Axles, railway, 2 cuts, 4-1 

 Banks, sloping, 1 cut, ;«>4 

 Bending iron plates, 1 cut, Hli 

 Brick and tile kllus.2 cuts,f<l, 1(<8 

 Bridge girders, 7 cuts, 1V»0 

 Britannia tubular biidge, 5 cuts, 21", 3f'."> 

 Bog reclamation, 'J cuts, 201 

 Boomerang propeller, 1 cut, 23 

 Casting iron pipes, 1 cut, 2S0 

 Casting metal, ft cuts, 334, 335 

 Church architecture, 3 cuts, 225 

 Cisterns, self-acting, 2 cuts, 'M'2 

 Combined-vapour engine, 1 cut, 8 

 Corrugated iron beams, 3 cuIs.tSO 

 Coupling-joints for pipes, 5 cuts, US 

 Dock entrances, ^ cuts, 121) 

 Draining marshes, 1 cut, 305 



Karthwork, scale for nieasuring,2 cuts, 12 



Electric light, 5 cuts, 80 



Electric telegraphs, 3 cuts, US, 2\f' 



Expansive steam, 1 cuut, ^ll.') 



Extraction of metals. 1 cut, 56 



Friction curve, G cuts, 163 



Gas and water meters, 8 cuts, 33C 



Hydrants, 4 cuts, 83. 55, 166 



Iron bars, 4 cuts, 114 



Iron manufacture, 1 cut, 82 



Iron, rolling of, 2 cuts, 249 



Levelling staves, 1 cut, 364 



Locomotive, centre of gravity in a, 1 cut, 



216 

 Locomotive engines, 9 cuts, l"G 

 Oblique bridge, 4 cuts, 147 

 Oil test, I cut, 314 



Oflcillating steam-engine, 2 cuts, 24 

 Paddles of steamers, 33 cuts, 27, 214,231 



259 

 Pentagrapli, 3 cuts, 361 

 Permanent way, 4 cuts, 180 

 Posts, flexure of, 1 cut, 302 

 Pump for coflTerdam, 1 cut, 57 

 Pumping engine, ;i cuts, 165, 281 

 Railways, on the principle of, ;i cuts, 52 

 Railway- wheels, 8 cuts, 300, 334 

 Reservoirs, discharge of water, 11 cuts, 



243,261,2111,325 

 Safety-valves, 2 cats, 5 

 Sea-walls, 5 cuts, 265 

 Screw-pile and moorings, 14 cuts, 34 

 Sheet-metal and wire- gauge, 1 cut, 16;» 

 Steam-valve 3 cuts, 52 



Steam and vacuum gauge, I cut, 169 

 Steam hoisting-machine, 1 cut, 373 

 Strength of materials; 1 cut, 41 

 Tide winding-apparatus, 3 cut, 318 

 Trapezium float-wheels, 6 cuts, 259 

 Tubes, 4 cuts, 22, 113 

 Tubular bridges, 3 cuts, 57, 251 

 Valves and cocks, 5 cuts, 8, 52, 335 

 Veneer-cutting, 7 cuts, 115 

 Veneer-joining, 2 cuts, 152 

 Venice, giant's stairs, 1 cut, 4 

 Ventilation of coal-mines, 2 cuta, 308 

 Walling, 1 cut, 301 

 Walerclosets, 1 cut. 111* 

 Water-wheels, 6 cuts, 232 

 Window back enclosures, 2 cuts, 281 



DIRECTIONS TO BINDER. 



Plate I. Bridgewater House 



11. III. St. Isaac's Church, Petersburgh .. 



IV. Pulpit at Sienna 



V. East Indian Steam Navigation 



VI. Raihvay Station, Newcastle-upoa-Tyne. . 



VII. Dock Entrances 

 VIII. Beli Rock Lif?hthouse 



IX. Iron Lattite Bridge 



X. XI. Railways' Permanent Way 



XII. Reclamation of Bog, , 



XIII. Solid Wrouyht-Iron Railway Wheels .. 



oppos] 



r Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral ; Roof over Nave,"\ 



XIV. XV. XVI. < Fresliogtield Church, Suffolk; Stone Pul- J- 



L pit St. Peter's Church, Wolverhampton J 



Glasgow and Edinburgh National Bank 



Pneumatic Lift 



Sheet- RIetal Moulding Machine . . 



Improvements of the Danube River 



The French Exposition — Plan of Building 

 /Newton, Steam Engines; Woollett, Gun Car- i 

 t riages ; Gordon, Ventilation of Mines S 



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