INDEX. 



Machinery, lubricator for, 301 

 Machinery, pneumatic aad hydrau- 

 lic, A\'alker'3, 389 

 Maddington church, reparation of, 



31 

 Madler, Prof., on Bruchausen'snew 

 theory of the fluctuations of the 

 sea, 135 

 Madras and Arcot railway, 312 

 Main and Brown's indicator and 



dynamometer (review), 312 

 Making zinc and gas, Shears's pa- 

 tent, 294 

 Malleable glass, 263 

 Mauby on the bridge over the Pol- 



dervaart, 125 

 Manufacture and trade of copper, 



revulsion in the, 110 

 Manufacture of casks, &c., and the 



seasoning of timber, 183 

 Manufactures and machinery, 76 

 Manures by Persoz, 164 

 Maremme, Tuscan, and their im- 

 provements, 175 

 Marine boilers, high pressure, 330 

 Marshal's intonaco cement, 153 

 Marvin's improvements in area grat- 

 ings, 83 

 Mary port and Whitehaven railway, 



96 

 Master's, capt., account of the iron 



barque, "Josephine," 227 

 Materials of ancient and modern 



structures, 93 

 Mathematical physics, Herapath's, 



(review), 301 

 May's railway chairs and fastenings, 



390 

 Measures of force and laws of mo- 

 tion, 172 

 Measurement of angles, Byrne on 



the, 313,351 

 Measuring and valuing carpenters 



and joiners' work, 62 

 Mechanical engineers, Institution of 



at Birmingham, 37, 190 

 Mechanical equivalent of heat, 367 

 Mechanics, treatise on, by Heather, 



108 

 Mediaeval architects, Chantrell on 



the geometric system of, 227 

 Mediterranean, railway from Paris 



to the, 140 

 Memoir of Sir John Soane, by G. 



Bailey, 19 

 iMenai tubular bridge, 31 

 Mensuration, railway, Gardner's 



introduciion to (review), 393 

 Mercury, fusion of, 336, 

 Metal for clocks, 367 

 iMetal, raising and shaping of, 112 

 Metal rollers, Payne's patent, 90 

 Metallic conductors, protection af- 

 forded by, 260 

 Method of saving life on skating 

 lochs and curling ponds, by 1'. 

 Baillie, 62 

 Metropolitan churches, new, 40 

 Metropolitan sanitary regulations, 



136 

 Meteorology, Rennie on, 150 

 Mexico, city of, 263 

 Microscopism, 255 

 ^Military and naval engineering, 161 

 Military cemetery, 336 

 Miller's patent safety rein, 26 

 Millward's patent figured surfaces, 



225 

 Mines of south Staffordshire, 30 

 Mineralogy and geology, by Rennie, 



149 

 Mining, by Rennie, 149 

 Miscellanea, 127 

 Model experiments, on, 352, 398 

 Molluscs, 256 



Moreland's patent furnaces for cop- 

 pers, 122 



Morin on the measurement of water, 

 134 



Morse's system of cerography, 64 



Mortar, Lieut. Roberts's, IGl 



Motion and force, on the measures 

 and laws of, 129 



Motion of fluids, 97 



Moulded bricks, 92 



Moulton's improvements in caout- 

 chouc, 320 



Mountainous forests, efl'ects of the 

 destruction of, 71 



Moving mountain near Unkelon the 

 Rhine, 93, 120 



Mulvany's life of James Gandon, 

 (review), 48 



Munich art-union, 162 



Munich in 1847, 345 



Muntz's sheathing for ships, 180 



Murdock's pigments or paints, 354 



Murray on improvements of Sunder- 

 land harbour, 189 

 Museum, British, 239, 257, 275, 



302, 346, 393 

 Musical instrument, electrical, 200 



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Napier's improvements iu smelting 



copper, 357 

 Naples, two new churches at, 63 

 Nasrayth's patent screw cocks, 353 

 Navigation, steam, by Rennie, 115 

 Navigation of the Seine, 162 

 Navy and army club, 163, 173, 231 

 Neapolitan railways and steamboats 



93 

 Nelson column, Trafalgar-square, 



399 

 New act on steam navigation, 30 

 New armament for royal navy, 315 

 Newbold on Tyre and Sidon, 112 

 New church in Old-street-road, 40 

 New corn exchange, Birmingham, 



93 

 New docks at Wisbeach, 31 

 New fulminating powder, 290 

 New Great Prussian line, 63 

 New house of peers, 280 



warming and ventila- 

 tion of, 262 

 New life boat, 314 

 New lightliouse apparatus, 385 

 New line of rail at St. Gerraains, 



45 

 New method of overcoming an in- 

 cline of I foot in 12, Erskine, 192 

 New metropolitan churches, 40 

 New Oxford-street, 120 

 New palace at Westminster, 201, 



233 

 New parliament, the, 290 

 New rudder for large ships, 93 

 New system for propelling vessels, 



94 

 Niagara, wire bridge at, 161 

 Nicholson's carpentry (review), 204 

 Night telegraph by coloured lights, 



Hepburn, 103 

 Niraroud, discoveries at, by Layard, 



227 

 Noad's lecture on sulphuric acid, 



262 

 Non-conductor of heat, 94 

 Norman pillars dug up at Latheney 



abbey, 30 

 Norris and TuU's axle box, 318 

 Northern drift, wave of translation 



in connexion with, 94 

 Northern line of railway from Paris, 



140 

 Note Book, Candidus's, Fasciculus 

 LXXII., 233; LXXIII., 266; 

 LXXIV., 298; LXXV., 341; 

 LXXVI., 371 

 Note on experiments on the new line 

 of St. Germain, 45 



Notes of the month, 30, 63, 94, 126, 



163, 199, 231, 263, 295, 355, 367, 



399 

 Notes on engineering, No. VII., 66 

 Notes on foreign works, 29, 62, 93 



126, 102, 199 

 Noton's improvements in smiths' tue 



irons, 26 

 Notre Dame at Paris, 93 

 Nott's electric telegraph, 50, 123 

 Nuremberg, gas lighting at, 93 

 Nutation, solar and lunar, 101 



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Obituary : Mr. Collins, 95 



Mr. Cottingham, 368 

 Mr. C. HoltzapHel, 163 

 Mr. Papworth, 232 

 Senor Vasques, 368 

 Ocean steam navigation, paper on 



by Capt. Henderson, 201 

 Oilcake presser, Robson's, 390 

 Ojibbeway Indians, pottery made 



by, 81 

 Oldstreet-road, new church in, 40 

 Opening of Hartlepool west harbour 



and docks, 231 

 Opera house, new, at Vienna, 29 

 Opera, royal Italian, at Covent gar- 

 den theatre, 139 

 Ore, copper, 103, 

 Organic substances, preservation of, 



Ryan's patent, 178 

 Origin of the Oxford, Worcester, & 



Wolverhampton railway, 317 

 Orleans, railway from Paris to, 140 

 Ostia, castle of, Ripingille's sketch 



of, 21 

 Ostia, harbour of, paper on by Sir J. 



Rennie, 20 

 Ostia, pharos at (review), 104 

 Overland route to India, German, 



197 

 Over-zeal of art collectors, 93 

 Oxford-street, new, 126 

 Oxidation of metals, prevention of, 



200 



Paddington, Trinity church at, 31 

 Paintings and carvings of St. BavoD, 



Ghent, 93 

 Palace at Westminster, new, 201 



233, 284 

 Papier Mache ornaments, Biele- 



field's patent, 119 

 Papworth testimonial, 62 

 Paris and Lyons railway terminus, 



erection of, 29 

 Partridge on heraldry, 314 

 Pasley's, General, observations on 

 limes, moriars, cements, ice. (re- 

 view), 310 

 Patents, American, specifications of 

 87,317:— 



Indicating the height of wa- 

 ter in steam boilers, Faber, 87 



Letting down and raising 

 propellers, Loper, 87 



Locomotive axle-box, Norris 

 andTuU, 318 



Pneumatic hydraulic engine, 

 Strode, 317 



Portable forge. Queen, 87 

 Steam engine, improvements 

 in, Lighthall, 87 



ditto, Loper, 87 

 Truss frames of bridges. Ri- 

 der, 87 



Water wheels. Drips, 87 

 dittc>, Lamb, 87 

 Patents, English, lists of, 3:4,64,90, 

 128, 104, 200, 232, 204, 296, 336, 

 308, 400 



Patents, register of specifications of 

 new, 26, 50, 88, 119, 142, 178, 

 223, 247, 290, 319, 353, 389 



Apparatus for melting zinc, 

 Smith, 26 



Area gratings, Marvin, 88 

 Atmospheric railway tubes, 

 Warcup, 90 



Brick machine, Ransorae, 145 

 Caoutchouc, Moulton, 320 

 Chandelier suspenders, Fin- 

 lay, 58 



Cooling coke ovens, Ran- 

 some, 320 



Copying presses, Kempton, 

 390 



Dressing lace and fabrics, 

 Keely, 247 



Electric light, Wright, 355 

 Electric telegraph, Nott, 5(» 

 ditto, Brett and Little, 294 

 Electro coppering, gilding, 

 &c., Piaget and JJu Bois, 292 



Excavating machine, Pri- 

 deaux, 121 



Figured surfaces, Millward, 

 225 



Filtering apparatus, Harvey, 

 143 



Flattening glass kilns. Dea- 

 con, 143 



Furnaces for coppers. More- 

 land, 122 



Furnaces, Grundy, 319 

 Gas apparatus, Hillary, 8S 

 Gas meters, Cioll, 91 



ditto, Uickeiiion, 293 

 ditto. Edge, 247 

 Gas improvements, Lowe, 1 42 

 Gas retorts. Walker, 29u 

 Glass, manufacture of. Bad- 

 ger and Chance, 27 



Glazing cast iron. Kenrick,27 

 Gun cotton, Taylor, 142 

 Gutta percha safely fuze, 

 Smith, 179 



Heating buildings and apart- 

 ments, Rothschild, 26 



House painting. Crease, 8S 

 Hydraulic and pneumatic 

 machinery. Walker, 389 



Impermeable solution for 

 stone, Teychenne, 91 



Incrustation of boilers, Dt-I- 

 fosse, 146 



Iron and brass moulds, Steiv- 

 art, 122 



Iron tubing, Roose, 179 

 Iron wire, Reid, 180 

 Japanning metals, 'Walton, 

 351 



Life buoys and boats. Holds- 

 worth, 145 



Lock furniture and spindles, 

 Pitt, 357 



Locomotive engines. Fossick, 

 Hackworth, and Elliott, 319 



Locomotive engines, Gallo- 

 way, 120 



Locomotive engines, Stephen- 

 son, 120 



Lubricator for machinery. 

 Carter, 391 



Making zinc and gas, Shears, 

 294 



Manufacture of gas, Lowe, 

 223 



Metal rollers, Payne, 90 

 Oilcake presser, Rubson,390 

 Papier mache ornameiiis, 

 Bielefield, 119 



Piers and harbours, Borrie, 

 247 



Pigments or paints, Murduik 

 354 



Preservation of organic sub- 

 stances, Ryan, 178 



