368 



THE CIVIL ENGINKKR AND AKCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[Not. 



The Echp.tt. — I'Ih' meteoruJo^ical observations made at the Cambridge 

 observatory durinj; the eclipse on tlie 9lh October have been publislied, as 

 follows : *' The changes in the barometer and hydrometer were very small, 

 but sufiicienlly coDsiderable to show them to liave been in some measure 

 affected by the phenomenon. The observations were taken at intervals of 

 from 10 to 15 minutes. At Gh. Om. the barometer read 21). 933 in., and 

 until the commencement of the eclipse showed an inctinatian to fall. At 

 the time of the greatest obscuration, it remained stationary, and immedi- 

 ately after it continued to ascend; iinally, at Hh. 45m., it read ti!l,9(j:i in., 

 having tiius ascended 0,030 in. in 2h. 4iim. With three common thermo- 

 meters, one with the bulb blackened and exposed to the sun'sli-iht, anothei 

 with plain bulb in same position, and the third in the ^hade, the readings 

 were plainly allectcd, though to a small amount, remaining mostly station- 

 ary as the sun became obscured, and varying rapiilly as the phenomenon 

 passed off. With hygrometers exposed to the sun's light, and in the shade, 

 the differences were uniform, following the same range as the common 

 therni<mieters. Owing to the moisture in the atmosphere, the wet and dry 

 bulb readings were nearly the same, the differences being at commence- 

 ment of eclipse — M et below dry, ori deg. ; at greatest obscuration, 0*1 

 deg. ; and at termination, I'O deg.'* 



New Railway Carriage. — Messrs. Adams, of Fairtield W orks. How, 

 have just constructed some improved carriages for the North Woolwich 

 branch of the I'.ast Counties railway. Tlie\ are 40 feet in length, and 9 feet 

 in width ; the extra width being gained by building tlie carriage frames to 

 the width of the ordinary step-boards. More is thus accomplished on tlie 

 narrow than has >et been on the broad gauge, where the carriages are 

 only 8 ft. 6 in. in width, by 28 feet in length. The extreme axles are 30 

 feet apart, and being on eight wheels, these carriages are obviously safer 

 than those on six wheels or on four. Notwithstanding their length, they 

 will pass a curve of 200 feet radius by means of the flexibility and arrauge- 

 ment of the springs, which permit the wheels to traverse laterally. The 

 butler heads are also made to radiate with the sprmgs or curves, so that 

 they press (irndy under all circumstances. The carriages are titted up in 

 four compartments ; one first-class with couches all around, and a table in 

 the centre ; the other three second class. They will carry about 100 pas- 

 sengers. 



Olfituanj. — Mr. Cottingham, the arcliitect of several cathedral restora- 

 tions and other public works, died on the 13th ult., at his residence in the 

 Waterloo-bridge road. 



Death of Vastjues. — Senor K. Vasques, member of the order of the 

 Jesuits, and of the Academy of Fine Arts, the most able architect and 

 engineer in the Peninsula, has just died in Spain. He entered the order 

 of St. Ignatius, but continued ardently to pursue his profession, in which 

 he was extremely successful. He was engaged in the immense under- 

 taking of opening a tunnel in the mountains of GuHdaran, a much more 

 difficult task than even the most celebrated tunnel of Europe, when be was 

 suddenly attacked by an illness which carried him off. 



LIST OF MEV7 PATENTS. 



GRANTKO IN ENGLAND FROM SePTEMBKR 24, TO OCTOBER 21» 1847. 



Six Months allowed for Enrofmenty unless othe^toise expressed. 



Charles Hanrork, of Bronipton. Alidrilesex, gentleman, for " Improvements iti the pre- 

 paration ofpiiitu percha, and in the application tliereof. alone, wr.d in combinaViou with 

 other materials, to various rianufacturing purposes." — Sealed September ^4. 



Thomas Moore, of durnley, Lancaster, for '* certain improvements in looms for weav- 

 ing." — September 30. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery. lane, Miildlesex, for " Improvements in ma- 

 chinery for the manufacture of nets aiid netting." (A commuuiiation.)— Sept. ai>. 



Richard Johnson, of Ulanchester, wire manufacturer, for " certain Improvements in 

 the manufacture of wire cloth." — Sept. ;ni. 



Charles de la Salr.ede, of Paris, gentleman, for " Improvements in the brassing and 

 broDziog the surface of steel, iron, zinc, lead, and tin." — Sej.t. ."iO. 



Robert Hawkins Nicholls, of Thurlby Grange, Bourne, Lincoln, gentleman, for "Im^ 

 provements in machinery for distributing corn and other grain on land, and also improve- 

 ments in giving motion to agricultural and other machinery."— Sept. ;iO. 



Igoacio de Barros, of Lisbon, Portugal, gentleman, for *' Improvements in machinery 

 for making lasts for boots und shoes, butts or stocks for fire-arms, and other inegular 

 forms." (A cotumunication.j— Sept. 'M. 



Charles Jay, of Hatluirst street, Hyde-piirk Gardens, Middlesex, gentleman, for 'Cer- 

 tain Improvements in apparatus for evaporating and concentrating saccharine and saline 

 solutions, and which may be also applicable to the evaporation and concentration of 

 vegetable and other exliacts." — Sept. ;^0. 



Pierre Auguste Bassaume, of No. 11, Rue du Crelssant, in the City of Paris, gentleman, 

 for " a new process for the prep:iration and engraving of plates, adapted to the printing 

 of cotton stuffs, paper, and other substances."— Ocrober 7. 



Nathaniel Fortescue Taylor, ttf Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth, engineer, for *' Improve- 

 ments in machinery for piinling and staining paper and other fabrics." — October 7. 



Joseph Wye, of Alfred Place, Saint Georgt's, Sonthwark. engineer, for •* Imjirove- 

 ments In machinery for diiving piles and raising earth and fluids." — October 7. 



James Pearson, of Slontajiue Terrace, New Cross, engineer, for " Improvements in 

 locomotive engines and carriages." — October 7. 



Alexander Bain, of the Wildernes.'f, Hampton Wick, gentleman, for ''Improvements 

 Id musical instruments, and in tic meons of playing on musical instruments."- Oct. 7. 



Sir Samuel Brown, knight, of V'anbrugh Lodge. Blackheaih, Kent, in Her Majesty's 

 Navy, for " Improvements In propelling and steering vessels, and Improvements in the 

 inuriiier's compass," — October 7. 



George H. l>odge, of Atlkborouyfc, in the State of Massachusetts, of the Uulted Statts 



of America, for " certiiin new and useful improvements in machinery for ^pinlling auJ 

 winding yarn."— October 7. 



Thomas Hunt Barber, ot King-street, Cheapslde, gentleman, for *' Improvsineats in 

 machinery for propelling vessels." (A communication.} — October 7. 



John Tyrrell, of Ureal Ormond-streel, Queen-sq'iare, Middlesex, estj., for " certain Im- 

 provements in the manufacture of elastic fabrics troin vulcanize<I Indian rubber, gutia- 

 ]>erLha, or certain librous materials." (.A communication.)— October 7. 



Jiimes lUrtley, of Sunderland, glass manufacturer, for ** Improvements in the manu- 

 fiiclure of glass."- October 7. 



Jules Jean Baptists Martin de Llguac, of Portland-street, in the county of Middlesex, 

 gentleman, for " Improvements in preserving milk."— October 7. 



Richard Fell, of Witichestcr-strcet, London, engineer, aiul James Fell, of Ostend. iu 

 the kingdom of Belgium, gentleman, tor " certain Improvements in obtaining and apply- 

 ing inoiive power." — October 7. 



Charles Frederuk Klleroian. of Bronipton, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for 

 ** certain processes or methods nf rendering feculent, excremental, and other matters 

 inodorous and disinfecting, and also of retarding the putrefaction of animal and vegetable 

 substances, and certain chemical re-ageuts employed in the said i)rncesses or methods.'*^ 

 — October 7. 



Blatthew Townsend, of the borough of Leicester, framework-knittcr, for "Improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of looped or knitted fabrics." — October 7. 



Alfred Vincent Newton, of Chancery-lane, mechanical draughtsman, for "certain Im- 

 provements applicable to the construction of floors and other parts of buildings, and also 

 tu certain kin<is of furniture and littings for buildings."- October 7. 



Pierre Antuine Joseph Dujardin, of Lille, in the kingdom of France, doctor of medicine, 

 for " Imjyrovenients in electro-magnetic telegraphic apparatus." — Octwber 7. 



Matthew Pierpoint, e?q., of Worcester, lor '* certaiu Improvements in the distributioi* 

 of artificial light." — October 7. 



Samuel Cunlilfe Lister, gentleman, and Isaac Holden, worsted-spinner, both of Brad- 

 ford, for " Improvements in c;<rding, preparing, and spinning wool and other fibrou.t 

 substances, and also in making licald and Genappe ydrds." 



Sir John Scott Lillie, of Fulham, in ihe county o( Middlesex, knight, for "Improve- 

 nit-nts in machinery applicable to tillage, and for agricultural purposes."— October 14. 



Thomas riorne, of Birmingham, for " certain Improvements applicable to carriage 

 windows." — October 14. 



John Tilling Harradine, of Ilollywell cum Needingworlh, in the county of Huntingdon, 

 fanner, for "an Improved agricultural instrument lor preparing land in various ways for 

 agricultural purposes."- October 14. 



Dand Fisher, of Clerkenwell Green, Middlesex, for "certain Improvements in the 

 manufacture of boots and shoes."- October 7, 



Francis Lloyd, of Snow Hill, in the county of London, tobacco mjnufacturer, for " err- 

 tain Improvements in the preparation and manufacltire of tobacco." — October 14. 



Matthew Curtis, of Manchester, machinist, for "certain Improvement in machines 

 used for preparing to be spun, and spinning, cotton and other tibroiis substances, aud for 

 preparing to be woven and weaving substances when spun." — October 14. 



Bartholomew Beniowski, of Bow-8treet, Coveul garden, Middlesex, for "certain Im- 

 provements in the apparatus for and process of printing."— October 14. 



Joseph Maudslay, of Lambeth, Surrey, for " certain Improvements in the manufacture 

 of candles, parts of which improvements are applicable to the manufacture of other 

 moulded substance8."^0ctober 14. 



Alfred Vincent Newton, of t^G, Chancery-hine, Middlesex, for ".in Improved machinery 

 for blooming iron."— October 14. 



Arthur Wall, of India-row, East India-road, Middlesex, for " a new or improved appa- 

 ratus for a method of separaiing oxides from their compounds and each other."— October 

 14. 



Robert Stirling Neivall, of Gateshead, Durham, for '* certain Improvements in ma- 

 chinery fur grinding grain, paints, and otlier substances." — October 14.^ 



Pntiick Playfair, merchant, and Laurence Hill, jun., civil engineer, for " Improvement j 

 in the manufacture of sugar." — October 21. 



John Ridgeway, of Caldun-place, Stafford, china manufacturer, for "certain Improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of paste hexes, and other similar articles, in china and cartheu- 

 ware, or other plastic materials." — October L'l. . 



William Gosswych iiard, of Calstock, Cornwall, engineer, fur "certain Impvovemeots 

 in machinery and implements for boring and sinking." — October 21. 



Robert Richardsou Banks, of Great George-street, Westminster, for "a new method 

 cf artificially curing and preserving the berries ot colTee bya drying apparatus." — October 

 21. 



Edward Tattersall, of Newmarket, land surveyor, lor " Improvements in making com- 

 munications from one jtart of a railway train to another." — October 21. 



Brooke Smith, of Biimingham. manufacturer, and Richard Ford Surges, of the same 

 place, for " a certain Improvement or certain improvements in apparatus for littering." — 

 October 21. 



James Beviile, of Walworth, Surrev, for "certain Improvements in conveyinj; goods 

 and passengers on railroads, parts of such improvements being applicable for working cr 

 driving olhir desciiptions of machinery.*' — October 21. 



Richard Shaw, of Gold's Green, West Biomwich, Staflord, railway bar finisher, for 

 " Improvements in the manufacture of wrought-iron railway bars aud railway chairs." — 

 October 21. 



Charlton Henry Slonian. of St. Martin*3-laue, Middlesex, for " Improvements in appa- 

 ratus used for ironing." — October 21. 



'i'homaa Forstpr, of Streatham, Surrey, manufacturer, for " Improvemffnts in combin- 

 ing gutta percha with certain materials, and in the application thereof to waterproofing 

 fabrics aud In moulding various articles therelrom."— October 21. 



A QUEUY. — Suppose (P) pounds rai:?e(J one foot liigb per minutf 

 repiet-enleci tlie power required to roil a certain cylinder over a certain 

 uuilorm iiiflt-xible road at a giveu rate. Also suppose (/>) pounds raised 

 Oiic foot lii';li per minute represented the power required to crush a certaiu 

 uniforin .substance placed equally througliout upon that road. [Ihat is, 

 the ptiwer required to cru.-h just so much of that substance in any giveu 

 time as the cylinder came in contact vviih during that lime].— QK^-stion. 

 Would (however gie.it Ihe dimneler of the said cylinder, aud however 

 f^reai its weighi) as much power as (P -{- p) pounds raised one foot high 

 per minute be required to move the said cylinder on the said road over the 

 said subalaace at the given rate, tliat 6ub:-tauce beiog crushed thereby ? 



J. M\ 



