INDEX. 



I'dtents, Propellers forsleam vessels, 

 Caaussen, 88 



Railway axles, U'aterhouse, 

 24T 



Railway chairs and fasten- 

 ings. May, 350 



Railway switches and turn- 

 tables. Wild, 320 



Railway wheels and breaks, 

 Grafton, 248 



Kotary enRine, Hreynton, 293 

 Screw cocks, Nasniyth, 353 

 Sewage manure, Higgs, 58 

 Sheathing for ships, Aluntz, 

 180 



Sheet melal and paint, Wet- 

 terstedt, 225 



Ships' anchors and masts, 

 McCarthy, 17'J 



Ships' loj^s and sounding 

 machines, M'alker, 59 



Ships and propellers, Bu- 

 chanan, 178 



Slub chains, Baylis, 356 

 Smelting copper ore, BbU, 88 

 ditto Napier, 357 



Steam boiler furnaces. Lord, 

 121 



Steam boilers. Lodge, 181 

 Steam engine regulators, 

 Poole, 58 



Steam engines, Knowelden, 

 356 



Steam hammer, Condie, 224 

 Steam power for cranes, 

 Johnson, 291 



Tesselated work, Austin and 

 Rammel, 89 



Tubular bridges, Fairbairn, 

 143 



Valves for sewers, Hale, 181 

 Wagon covers, Henson, 223 

 Warping vessels, Beadon, 

 291 



Water-closets, Bunnett, 144 

 Patents, specifications of, a treatise 



on, 106 

 Paving, Rennie on, 81 

 Payne's patent metal rollers, 90 

 Pendulum, a new regulating index 



for, Mc Ewan, 153 

 Perspective simplified, Stewart, (re- 

 view), 18 

 Permanent railways, method of con- 

 structing, 83 

 Peruvian alloy, analysis of, 30 

 Petersburgh (St.) 120 

 Penitentiaries, construction of, 331 

 Piers and harbours, Borrie's patent, 



247 

 Pharos at Ostia, 104 

 Photogenic experiments. 369 

 Photographic manipulation, 278 



portraits, 95 

 Photography, 387 

 Pile-driving, pneumatic, 388 

 Plan for arresting the progress of fire 

 in dwelling houses, 192 



for connecting the Atlantic and 

 Pacific oceans, 228 

 Plane and spherical trigonometry, by 



Jeans, (review), 393 

 Planet beyond Uranus, 9, 64, 111 

 Plymouth, elevation of the land at, 



94 

 Pneumatic and hydraulic machinerv. 



Walker's, 389 

 Pneumatic pile-driving, 388 

 Pompeii, the Russian, 120 

 Poole's patent steam engine regula- 

 tor, 53 

 Portable apparatus for inhaling the 

 vapour of ether, 82 



forge. Queen's patent, 87 

 Practical treatise on perspective, 

 Pyne, (review), 18 



rules for gradients, 193 



Practice and theory, Rennte, 151 



Prideau.i's patent excavating ma- 

 chine, 121 



Proceedings of scientific societies, 20, 

 61, 81, 122, 152, 183, 227,261, 

 396 



Propellers, method of letting down 

 and raising, Loper's patent, 87 



for steam vessels, Hillary's 

 patent, 88 



Propelling vessels, new system of, 94 



Quarterly papers on engineering, 



Weale's, (review), 312 

 Queen's patent portable forge, 87 

 Query, a, 368 

 Quick and slow trafiic, 371 



R 



RaflFaelle, an architectural author, 29 

 Ratfaelle's Breve, 26 

 Rails, iron bridge, Wood's, 164 

 Railway abattoir, 164 



and coal mines in Bohemia, 

 29 



axles and signals. Water- 

 house's patent, 247 



break, by F. Knight, 190 



carriage apparatus, Ches- 

 shire's, 190 



carriage axles, by II. Besse- 

 mer, 190 



carriage break, 289 



carriage, (new), 368 



carriages. Fuller's india-rub- 

 ber buffers, 154 



chairs and fastenings. May's 

 patent, 390 



club, 296 



curves, setting out of, 28, 41 



expenditure, 182 



extension for speedy travel- 

 ling, 385 



from Avignon to Marseilles, 

 231 



from Naples, to the French 

 frontier, 29 



from the Adriatic to the 

 North sea, 95 



indicator and alarum. Car- 

 rick, 61 



in Switzerland, 163 



intelligence, 95 



lift bridge, 241,295, 310 



locomotion and steam navi- 

 gation, Curr, (review), 362 



legislation, accidents and in- 

 spection, 271 



mensuration, Gardner's intro- 

 duction to, (review), 393 



South Devon, opening of. 



263 



statistics, 40 

 suspension bridge, Cowper's, 

 309 



switches and turn-tables 

 Wild's patent, 9, 320 



trains, indicator far ascer- 

 taining the speed of, 153 



wheels and breaks, Grafton's 

 patent, 248 



wheels, tires of, 230 

 Railways and steamboats, Neapohtan, 

 94 



cost of previous to 1841, 

 183 



in Germany, 96 

 in Italy, 96 

 safety of , 4 1 



state and prospects of in 

 France, 140 

 Ransome's patent cooling coke oveo, 

 320 



Ransome's patent brick machine, 143 

 Register of new patents, 26, 50, 88, 

 119, 142, 178, 223, 247, 290, 317, 

 353, 389 

 Restoration of the Ulm minster, 29 

 of Llandaff catherlral, 30 

 of the cathedral of 

 Speyer, 93 

 Reading and Hungerford railway, 



95 

 Recent depressions in the land, 200 

 Regulation and drainage of the Rhine, 



199 

 Reid's patent iron wire, 180 

 Renaissance decorations, by F. Grace, 



220 

 Rennie's history of engineering, 50, 



75, 113, 146 

 Rennie on the harbour of Ostia, 20 

 Report on atmospheric waves, by W. 



Birt, 257 

 Reviews : — 



Algebra made easy, Tate, 92 

 Ancient architecture described and 

 demonstrated by its monuments, 

 L. Canina, 17 



and modern architecture, 

 Gailhabaud, 49 

 Architectural maxims and theorems, 



Donaldson, 202 

 Art of sketching from nature simpli- 

 fied, Earl, 245 

 Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities 

 of Scotland, Billings and Burn, 159 

 290 

 Bridges of the Romans, 104 

 Carpentry in divisions. A, B, C, 



Nicholson, 202 

 Catechism of the steam engine. 



Bourne, 391 

 Colosseum, St. Peter's, and the Pan- 

 theon, Amici, 18 

 Copyright of designs, Spence, 196 

 Double gauge, Stephenson, 289 

 Earthwork tables, Sibley and Ruther- 

 ford, 246 



Bashforth, 202, 289 

 Elements of geometry, J. D., 393 

 Engineer and contractor's pocket 



book for 1847-1848, 50, 290 

 Ecclesiastical and domestic architec- 

 ture of England, Hadfield, 263 

 First series of railway practice, Brees, 



92 

 Hand-book of the " sounder," 203 

 High-pressure steam engine. Dr. 



Alban, 45 

 History of the abbey church of St. 



Alban, Buckler, 364, 393 

 Introduction to railway mensuration, 

 Gardner, 353 



to the present practice of 

 surveying and levelling, 99 

 Indicator and dynamometer. Main 



and Brown, 312 

 Letter to Lord John Russell, Weale, 



312 

 Life of James Gandon, the architect, 



Mulvany, 48 

 Mathematical physics, nerapath,361 

 Narrative of the recovery of the Gor- 

 gon, Key, 18 

 Observations on lime, &c., Pasley, 



310 

 Post-oflSce directory for 1847, Kelly, 



202 

 Practical observations on the present 

 state of the steam engihe, Gustafs- 

 son, 193 

 Plane and spherical trigonometry, 



Jeans, 393 

 Practical rules on gradients, Ibbetson, 

 195 



treatise on perspective, 18 

 Quarterly papers on engineering, 

 Weale, S12 



Railway locomotion and steam navi. 



gation, Curr, 362 

 Select writings of Robert Chambers, 



92 

 Sketches, graphic and descriptive, 



Blackburn, 303 

 Short treatise on the steam engine, 



Hanii, 193 

 Tradesman's hook of ornamental de- 

 signs, Leith, 202, 217 

 Turning and manipulation, llolt- 



zapfrel,51 

 Revue du Havre, 296 

 Rhine, adorning of the, 123 



regulation and drainage of, 

 199 

 Richardson, on ventilation of mines, 



155 

 Richardson's reversing waterwheels, 



141 

 Rider's patent truss frames, 87 

 Ritchie, on ventilating buildings by 



hot water, 153 

 Rivers and watercourses, legislation 



of, 162 

 Road over the Alps, 162 

 Roads, Whitwortli on the cleansing 



of, 201 

 Robert's, Lieut., mortar, 161 

 Robinson, Dr., on the decomposition 



of water, 258 

 Robson's patent oil-cake presser, 390 

 Rome, Archaiological Institute of, 29 

 Romney marsh, sea defences, 26 

 Roose's patent iron tubing, 179 

 Rope machinery, 77 

 Rope, China grass, 400 

 Rosse's, Lord, telescope, 254 

 Rotatory engine, Breynton's, 293 



Cordes and Locke's, 

 38, 61 

 Rothschild's patent for heating apart- 

 ments, 26 

 Rouen, abbey near it, 94 



and Havre railway, 95 

 railway from to Pans, 140 

 Rowell, on evaporation, 258 

 Rowney's, Dr., analysis of Bohemian 



glass, 64 

 Royal Academv, 95, 174, 400 

 Artillery, 367 

 Botanic gardens, 163 

 Institute of British .Xrchitect's, 

 6, 26, 62, 82, 123, 155, 192, 227, 

 261,367,397 



Italian opera, Covent garden, 

 296 



navy, armament for, 161, 315 

 Scottish Society of Arts, 25, 

 61,81, 123, 152, 192 

 steam navy, 63 

 Rugendes, the painter, 63 

 Russell, on the interior forms of 

 buildings and laws of sound, 82, 

 124 



on engineering works ex- 

 posed to the sea, 125 

 Rutherford's self acting cart-drag or 



break, 153 

 Ryan's patent for preserving organic 



substances, 178 

 Safety of railways, by M. de Bou- 

 reuille, 41 



rein. Miller's patent, 26 

 Saint Alban's, architecture of, by 



Buckler, (review), 392 

 Saint Bavon, Ghent, paintings and 

 carvings of, 93 



Denis, internal fittings of, 60 

 Germain L'.Vuxerrois, 31, 399 

 Paul's church, Alnwick, 28 

 Peter's at Rome, 126 

 Petersbugh, 126 

 Sandstone, sculptured, impervious to 



the climate, 154 

 Salter on colouring geological maps, 

 287 



