INDEX. 



Ilall at Hampton Court palace, 03 

 of lilierty at Bavaria, 34, 163 

 Hamburgh, interruption to the great 

 waterworks at, 63 



Mr. Giles and the senate 

 of, 94 

 Hampton Court palace, hall at, 63 

 Hand-book of the "Sounder," (re- 

 view), 203 

 Hann's treatise on the steam engine, 



(review), 194 

 Harbour board, tidal, 399 

 Harbour of Ostia, 20 

 Harris, (Sir W. S.), on the protection 

 afforded by metallic conductors, 

 260 

 Hartlepool, west harbour and dock, 



opening of, 231 

 Harvey's patent filtering apparatus, 



143 

 Haven of Swinemiinde, Prussia, 93 

 Havre and Uouen railway, 95 

 Hay on decoration, 24, 152 

 on symmetrical beauty, 25 

 on the means of rendering sculp- 

 tured sandstone impervious to the 

 effects of our changeable climate, 

 154 

 Heat, influence of, on the cohesion of 

 liquids, (renew), 8 



a good non-conductor of, 94 

 on the nature of, 85 

 Heated air, Wilkinson's paper on, 

 191 



currents, Wishaw on the ap- 

 plication of, 193 

 Heather's treatise on mechanics, (re- 

 view), 108 

 Heating apartments and buildings, 



Rothschild's patent, 20 

 Height of water in steam boilers, 

 method of indicating, Faber's pa- 

 tent, 87 

 Helder, or great north Holland canal, 



Jackson, 83 

 Henderson (Capt.), on ocean steam 



navigation, 261 

 Henry (Prof.), on the induction of 



atmospheric electricity, 176, 222 

 Henson's patent wagon covers, 223 

 Hepburn's night telegraph, 01, 192 

 Heppel on the expansive action of 



steam, 227 

 Heraldry, Partridge on, 314 

 Herapath's mathematical physics, 



(review), 361 

 Herron's method of constructing per- 

 manent railways, 83 

 Higgs's patent sewage manure, 58 

 High art, Dwyer's lecture on, 396 

 High pressure boilers, marine, 330 

 steam, 364 



steam engine investi- 

 gated, by Dr. Ernst Alban, (re- 

 view), 45 

 Highton on the effects of atmo- 

 spheric electricity, 25 

 Highton's electric telegraph, 400 

 Hillary's patent for the manufacture 



of gas, 83 

 History of architecture in Great Bri- 

 tain, Elmes, 106, 209, 234, 268, 

 300,337,378 



of engineering, bv Sir John 

 Rennie, 50, 75, 113, 146 

 History of the architecture of St. Al- 

 ban's abbey, by Buckler, (review), 

 392 

 Holdsworth's patent life buoys, 145 

 Holtzapffel on turning, (review), 15 

 Holyhead harbour, 30 

 Holy Trinity church at Liverpool, 31 

 Hourly self-registering barometer, 



Macfarlane's, 62 

 House painting, improvements in, 

 Crease's patent, 83 



Houses of parliament, new, 92,175, 



280 

 Human voice, the reach of, 126 

 Humboldt and CorneUus, 93 

 Hungerford bridge, stability and 



strength of, 73 

 Hungerford and Reading railway, 95 

 Hunt's chromatype, 202 



paper on coloured glass 286 

 Hydraulic and pneumatic machinery, 



Walker's, 389 



log, Gustafsson's, 375 

 Hydraulic machine for raising water, 



287 



Iron vessels, 335 



wire, Reid's patent, 180 

 Irrigation of Algeria, 29 

 Isochronism of the balance spring, on 

 the laws of, by C. Frodsham, 188 

 Isthmus of Suez, cutting of, 126 

 Italian model railway, 03 



railway, 96 

 Italy, moving mountain in, 125 



Ibbetson's practical rules for gra- 

 dients, (review), 195 

 Impermeable solution for stone, Tey- 



chenne's patent, 91 

 Important experimental trip, 198 

 saving in drainage, 164 

 Impracticability of continental rail- 

 ways in winter, 63 

 Improved anemometer, Goddard's, 60 

 expanding die, by Salt, 295 

 gas burner, Boccius on, 193 

 locomotive engine, 263 

 Improvements in gun cotton, 296 



in locomotive and rail- 

 way carriages, Wright, 62 



in Long acre, 30 

 in Sunderland harbour, 

 Murray on, 189 

 Impurities of water, Sollv's lecture 



on, 186 

 India, Elphinstone college, 126 



Dredge's suspension bridges 

 in, 31, 263,289 



rubber, vulcanized,Brockedon, 

 186 

 Indicator and dynamometer. Main 

 and Brown, (review), 312 



for ascertaining the speed 

 of railway trains, IJicardo, 153 

 Indicator, steam. Smith's patent, 399 

 Induction of atmospheric electricity 

 on the wires of the electric tele- 

 graph, 170, 222 

 Influence of heat on the cohesion of 



liquids, 8 

 Inglis's, (Sir Robt.), address to the 

 members of the British Associa- 

 tion, 256 

 Ink for the blind, Foulis, 61 

 Institute of Architects, (Irish), 336 

 (Royal), of British Archi- 

 tects, 6, 26, 62, 82, 123, 125, 192, 

 227,261,367,397 

 Institution, (Builders' Benevolent), 

 233 



of Civil Engineers, 62, 72, 

 83, 124, 155,227,201 



of Mechanical Engineers 

 at Birmingham, 37, 190 

 Interior forms of buildings in refe- 

 rence to the laws of sound, 82 

 Internal fittings of St. Denis, 60 

 Interruption to the great waterworks 



at Hamburgh, 03 

 Introduction to railway mensuration, 



by Gardner, (review), 393 

 Introduction to the present practice 



of surveying and levelling, 92 

 Introductory address of Professor 

 Ansted, at King's college, London, 

 358 

 Invention of the spinning jenny, 77 

 Ipswich and liury railway, 95 

 Irish Institute of architects, 336 

 Iron barque, Josephine, of Liverpool, 



account of, by Capt. Masters, 227 

 Iron for girder liridges, 203 



tubing, Roose's patent, 179 

 tubular bridges, 376 



Jackson's paper on the Helder great 

 junction canal, 83, 124 



Japanning metals, Walton's patent, 

 355 



Jeans's trigonometry, (review), 393 



Jesus college, Cambridge, chapel of, 

 109 



Johnson's patent steam power for 

 cranes, 291 



Jones on the application of the fan- 

 blast, 191 



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Keely's patent for dressing lace and 



fabrics, 24 7 

 Kehiheim, hall of liberty at, 34 

 Kemp and Co. 's electric magnetic coil 



machine, 62 

 Kempton's copying presses, 390 

 Kinnaird grate. Gray on the improved, 



123 

 Kenrick'a patent for glazing cast-iron, 



27 

 Kew gardens, 163, 290 

 Key's (Astley Cooper), narrative of 

 the recovery of the steam ship 

 Gorgon, (review), 18 

 King's college, London, 358 



engineering society, 

 95 

 King's well, Bath, analysis of the 



waters of, 30 

 Knight's description of a railway 



break, 190 

 Knowelden's patent improvements in 

 steam engines, 356 



Lambeth suspension bridge, 127 

 Lamegie and Henry's patent improved 



railway chair and sleeper, 140 

 Land reclaimed from the sea, value 



of, 367 

 Landing pier at Dover, 263 

 Laugher's paper on the decoration of 



Covent garden theatre, 230 

 Large ships, new rudder for, 93 

 Largest merchant vessel in the world, 



31 

 Law of atmospheric resistance, 367 

 which governs the discharge of 



elastic fluids, Froude's paper on, 



228 

 Lawrence (Saint), tunnel across the, 



310 

 Laws of force and measures of mo- 



tion, 172 

 Laws of sound, Scott Russell's paper 



in reference to, 32 

 Layard on the discoveries at Nimroud, 



227 

 Leeds and Bradford extension rail- 

 way, 90 

 Lecture on sulphuric acid, bv H. M. 



Noad, 202 

 Lectures, geological. Prof. Ansted's, 



393 

 Leduc, the repairer of Notre Dame, 



Paris, 93 

 Legoussee's hand-book of the 



" Sounder," 203 

 Legislation of rivers and water 



courses, 162 



Leeghwater steam engine, 1 

 Leith's tradesman's book of orna- 

 mental designs, (review), 202, 24 7, 

 Lift bridge, (railway), 241, 295 

 Light from electricity, Staite on, 399 

 Lighthall's patent for improvements 



in the steam engine, 87 

 Lighthouse apparatus, new, 385 

 Lime, calcareous cements, mortars, 

 &c.. General Pasley, (review), 310 

 Limerick and Waterford railway, 95 

 Liquids, influence of heat on the co- 

 hesion of, 8 

 Literary and art property in Austria, 



199 

 Literature (engineering), 28 

 Liverpool, Holy Trinity church at, 31 

 Llandaff cathedral, restoration of, 30 

 Lock furniture and spindles, Pitt's 



patent, 357 

 Locomotion, aerial, 94 

 Locomotive axle box, Norris and 

 TuU's patent, 318 



engine, Crompton's large 

 wheel, narrow gauge, 153 



engine, explosion of, in 

 the United States, 245 



engine improved, 264 

 engines, 113 



engines. Fossick, Hack- 

 worth and Elliott's patent, 319 



slide valves, Bucknell, 

 177 

 Locomotives and railway carriages, 



Wright's improvements in, 62 

 Lodge's patent steam boilers, 181 

 Log, hydraulic, Gustafsson's, 375 

 Logarithms, by Oliver Byrne, 242 

 London, Brighton, and South-coast 



railway company, 95, 200 

 London Society of Arts, 24,61,81, 



123, 153, 192, 229 

 Londonderry and Enniskillen railwav, 



95 

 Long-acre improvements, 30 

 Long range. Sir Howard Douglas on 



the, 197, 243 

 Lord's patent steam boiler furnaces, 



121 

 Lords, the new house of, 163 

 Loper's patent for letting down and 

 raising up propellers, 37 



patent improvements in the 

 steam engine, 87 

 Louvain, Guildhall of, 29 

 Louvre, reorganization of the sculp- 

 ture galleries of the, 126 

 Lowe's patent for the manufacturing 



of gas, 142, 224 

 Lowthorp's wicket gates for canal 



locks, 244 

 Lubricator for machinerv, Carter's, 



391 

 Lunar theory, 255 



Lush's glance at some of the attri- 

 butes of architecture, 105, 238 



observations on Venice and 

 her arts, 342, 373 

 Lyell's paper on the age of volcanoes, 

 185 



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Macadam's description of pottery 



made by the Ojibbeway Indiaus, 



81 

 Maccarthy's pateut sheathing for 



ships, 180 

 Macdonald's description of a sluice, 



82 

 McEwan's new rtgistering index 



for the pendulum, 153 

 Macfarlane's houriy self registering 



barometer, Ci 

 Machiue manufactories in Germany, 



62 

 iMachinery and manufactures, 76 



