viii 



Tod, James, on the Edinburgh build- 

 ings, 293 



James, remarks on fire in dwell- 

 ing houses, 157 



Tolls, railway, 289 



Toposcope, 32 



Town lands of Musselburgh, 23 



Trade winds in the atmosphere of Bar- 

 badoes, 8ti 



Trafalgar-square, fountains in, bv Anti- 

 Znilus, 190 



Trains, passing of, on atmospheric rail- 

 ways, 339 



Transitional churches, 137 



Traps, shingle, efBciency of, 309 



Travels (Italian), of Guethe, 308 



Trigonometrical surveying, problems 

 in, 310 



Tubular boilers, 112, 268 



boilers of the Tagus and Bra- 



ganza steam ships, 102 



Turnbull's letter to the Editor, on pro- 

 blems in surveying, 356 



Valve for an atmospheric railway, 86 

 " Vanguard" steam ship, wreck of, 121 

 Variation of the magnetic needle, 158 

 in the length of pendulums, 



errors arising from, 256 

 Varieties of the cross, 216 

 Varnham's patent paper for preventing 



fraud, 3o8 

 Ventilation (glas«),BaiIlie's patent,224 

 Ventilators (glass),self-acting,\Vrough- 



ton's, 124 

 Viaduct at Ashton, fall of, 29G 



Accidents on Eastern Counties railway, 

 Addition to the Houses of Parliament, 



3C1 

 .\msterdam and Rotterdam railway, 19 



cuts, 75 

 Architecture in Guernsey, 344 



of Ireland, 'l9 cuts, 145 



Atmospheric railways, 227 



railway, 2 cuts, 385 



traction, 335* 



Bailee Khal suspension bridge, 8 cuts, 



304 

 Banks of earth, 242 

 Beam and direct action engines, 4 cuts, 



101 

 Blackfriars pier, 222 

 Blasting rocks, 385 

 Buffing apparatus, 330 

 Buildings, rates of, 12 cuts, 12 j 



Casks fur lluating large stones, 3 cuts, 



22 



INDEX. 



Vibart's patent agricultural machine, 

 120 



Vickers, on the junction of the Atlan- 

 tic a!id Pacific oceans, 191 



Villa Rosa, near Dresden, 197 



Volatilization of zinc, 163 



Vulliaray, on the construction and re- 

 gulation of clocks, 255, 256 



Walker's evidence on the falling of a 

 suspension bridge at Yarmouth, 194 



Walker, on keeping the same time at 

 diii'erent places, 256 



Wallerand's patent improvements in 

 dyeing, 330 



Waller, on Anglo-Saxon masonry, 301 



Wall's patent improvements in metals, 

 297 



Warming and ventilating, history of, 

 by W. Bernan (review), 92 



Washing and mangling machine, Wil- 

 kinson's patent. 



Water and other fluids, remarkable 

 properties of, by J. E. Bowman (re- 

 view), 182 



geological, chemical, and me- 

 chanical action of, 43 



pipes, Roe's patent, 386 



quantity of, supplied to the in- 

 habitants of Exeter, 337 



supply of, for fires, by James 



Braidwoud, 176 



works at Exeter, 337 



Watteen's patent for preventing in- 

 crustation in boilers, 172 



Waugh's, Capt., on a railway from Cal- 

 cutta to Mirzapore, 185 



Waves, on the force of, by Thomas 

 Stevenson, 324 



Weirs (overfall), 351 



Welter's patent, for making tiles, 385 



Wellington's statue at Glasgow, 391 



Westmacott, on the history and prac- 

 tice nf sculpture, 222, 267 



Westminster, improvements of, 6, 111 



palace, architect's report 



on the present state of the works, 

 126 



palace, statues in, 345 



sewers, 356 



Weymouth and Portland harbour, 94 



Whitehaven and Furness junction rail- 

 way, 336 



Whitelaw's experiments on Barker's 

 mill, 156 



White's plan for raising sunken ships, 48 



Wilkinson's Practical Geology & Archi- 

 tecture of Ireland (review), 92, 144 



patent washing & mangling 



machine, 386 



Williams's patent slate ridges and hips, 

 15 



Williams and Sowerby's new show- 

 rooms, 97, 157 



Wilson, George, on the employment of 

 oxygen in diving bells, 156 



Wilson's, C. II., suggestions for form- 

 ing a museum of casts, 138, lo7 



(General George), patent 



chimney tubes, 120 



Window shutters and blinds, Quincey's 



patent, 160 

 Windows of the Royal Exchange, 1, 



68, 241 

 Winter's patent scafTolding, 266 

 Wirtemburg, Kaunstadt in. 95 

 ^Vishaw, on electric clocks on railways, 



255 

 Wood pavement, Dockin's patent, 91 

 Woolwich experiments at, 172 

 Worby's patent brick and tile machine, 



120 

 Working mechanic, a, on locomotive 



and atmospheric railways, 338 

 Works on the Caledonian canal, 258 



commenced at the drainage of 



Ancholrne, 1842, 350 

 Wreck of the " Vanguard" steam ship, 



121 

 Wroughton's self-acting glass ventila- 

 tor, 124 



Xanthus, sculpture and architecture bv, 

 89, 99 



Yarmouth, fall of a suspension bridge 



at, 194 

 Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, 



(review), 93 



Zinc, volatilization of, 163 



Zuphorus, on the employment of mili- 

 tary engineers on architectural 

 works, 41 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 Christian Iconography, 3 cuts, 248 ] Iron smelting furnace, 155 



Connecting crank, 3 cuts, 54 

 Constructions to retain deep cuttings 



in clay, 14 cuts, 210 

 Copper ores, vessel for, 169 

 Depth of cills, 277 

 Draining machinery, 31 



Landslip in the Ashley cuttings, 3 cuts, 



23 

 Locomotive carriages, 225 

 Marine dynamometer, 324 

 Mechanical properties of air and steam, 



2 cuts, 233 



Dreilge'ssuspensionbridge, Scuts, 249, Mechanism for multiplying motion, 11 



272, 339 



bridge, 4 cuts. 



377 



Dressing ores, 171 



Dyeing, 3 cuts, 330 



Fumific impeller, 331 



Geometric traceiy of Brancepath 



church, 179 

 Glass ventilation, 225 

 Harbours of refuge and defence, 309 

 Hetnitrope paving, 2 cuts, 92 

 Horbury school, 307 

 Improved level, 53 

 Iron lockgates at Montrose, 5 cuts, 150 



cuts, 09 



Motion of locomotive engines, 293 

 Motive power, method of obtaining it, 



331 

 New law courts, 362 



order of architecture, 2 cuts, 68 



Oblique elliptic arches, 4 cuts, 279 

 Ovens and kilns, 2 cuts, 172 

 Pilbrow's atmospheric railway, 10 cuts, 



28 

 Pile driving machine, 3 cuts, 79 

 Pinacotheca, or picture gallery, 333* 

 Problems in surveying, 7 cuts, 311 



Pumps, 330 

 I Purification of coal gas, 3 cuts, 173 

 I Railway axles, 30, 109 



I cuttings and embankments, 14 



I cuts, 25, 43 



1 station clocks, 255 



ScafTolding for large erections, 12 cuts, 

 j 104 



Screw propellers, 5 cuts, 90 

 1 Slate ridges and hips, 15 



Strength of cast-iron girders, 3 cuts, 

 381 

 j Studies of plan, 270 



Sunderland light-bouse, 7 cuts, 51 

 j Supply of water fur fires, 11 cuts, 176 



Town and Harbour of Pulteney Town 

 4 cuts, 20 



Varieties of the Cross, 3 cuts, 216 



Villa Rosa, 197 



Water pipes, 386 



Window of the Royal Exchange, 241 



57 



65 



68 



DIRECTIONS TO BINDER 

 Plate 1. — Royal Exchange windows opposite page 



• • 2. — Mestminsler Improvements, plans of 

 .. 3.— Exposition of France 

 . . 4.— iMausoleum of Charlottenburg, plan 



and elevation 



. . 5. — Royal Exchange, window of the mer- 

 chants' Area, Elevation 



. . G, — Kollmen's atmospheric railway, ele- 

 vation and section 



• ■ 7 — New show rooms at Messrs. Wil- 



liams and Sowerby's, Oxford 

 street, plan and vertical section 

 ■• 8.— .. capitals and cornice 



• • 9.— Farrell's spiral railway, Samuda'a 



railway, Worby's brick machine, 

 Wilson's chimney tubes, Vibart's 

 agricultural machine, scupper, 

 joiners' clamp, joiners' cramp, 

 centre bit, plumber's force, wharf 

 laddder 

 . . 10. — Fountain of the Place de la Con- 

 corde, Paris 



• ■11 . — Fountaius " des Saisons," Paris, and 



l''(mntain in Trafalgar Square, London 

 .. 12.— Hallette's atmospheric railway 



119 



133 



133 

 149 



Plate 13, 14, 15 — Huugerford suspension 

 bridge, with details 



. . 16. — Prosser's railway, Auld's pressure 

 and generation of steam. North's 

 slated roofs, Nasinytb and May's 

 atmospheric apparatus, Greene's 

 diflereutial steam engine 



. . 17. — Villa Rosa, near Dresden, eleva- 

 tion iiud section 



.. 18. — Ne houses in Coventry street, 

 elevation 



. . 19. — Improvements of the Clyde 



.. 20. — Pinkus's atmospheric railway. 

 Lacy aud Buck's railway, win- 

 ter's lire escape, Mdichap's axle- 

 tree, Spencer's corrugating 

 rollers 



.. 21. — Drawbridge over the river Arun, 

 with details 



.. 22. — Parsey's air machines, Seward's 

 propelling machinery, Murdock's 

 gas apparaus, Alaberly's rail 

 way break 



.. 23 — Church at Novogiorgieosk 



.. 24. — Pinacotheca, or picture gallery at Munich 



opposite page 165 



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207 

 301 

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