INDEX. 



Salt's expanding die, 295 

 Sanitary regulations of the metropo- 

 lis, 136 

 " Sarah Sands" steam vessel, 189 

 Sawing engine, Cochran's, 200 

 Scenery and decorations of theatres, 



Dnyer on, 187 

 Schinkel on art-culture, 226 

 ^cliuulof design, government, 13,399 



engineering, Dublin, 31 

 Scotland, antiquities of, by Billings 



and Durn, (review), 1j9, 290 

 Scott's hydraulic machine, 287 

 Screw propeller, 170 

 Sea, Bruchhausen's new theory of, 

 135 

 defences of Romney marsh, 261 

 margins, ancient, by Robert 

 Chambers, 260 

 serpent, fossil. 199 

 Seasoning of timber and casks, 183 

 Sea walls, construction of, 215, 251, 



281 

 Seine, navigation of the, 162 

 Select writings of Robert Chambers, 



(review), 92 

 Senegal, public works in, 162 

 Setting out railway curves, 28, 41 

 Sewage and drainage, 170 



manure, Higgs's patent, 58 

 notice of, by fienuie, 79 

 Shakspeare cliff, 126 

 Shears's patent zinc and gas, 294 

 Sheathing for French vessels, 335 



for ships, Muntz's patent, 

 183 

 Sheerness, fortilications at, 30 

 Sheet metal and paint, Wetterstedt's 



patent, 225 

 Ships'anchors and masts, Maccarthy's 

 patent, 179 



and propellers, Buchanan's 

 patent, 178 



logs and sounding machines. 

 Walker's patent, 59 



logs, Gustafsson's, 375 

 Short time for building operatives, 



263 

 Sibley and Rutherford's earthwork 



tables, (review), 246 



Silvering glass, Drayton's patent, 192 



Sketches of decorative painting in 



the middle ages, by G. Blackburne, 



(review), 363 



Skimming ladlesforpouringcast-iron, 



263 

 Slub chains, Baylis's patent, 356 

 Sluice cocks, Nasmyth's patent, 353 

 gate and railway lift bridge, 

 310 

 Smelting by electricity, 256 



copper ore. Bell's patent, 

 88 



Napier's patent, 357 

 Smith's apparatus for melting zinc, 26 

 gutta percha safety fuze, 179 

 steam indicator, 399 

 Smiths' water tue-irons, 27 

 Smyth, Professor, on the changes of 

 position in transit instruments, 286 

 Soane, Sir J., memoir of, by G. 



Bailey, 19 

 Society, Chemical, 156 



of Arts, London, 24, 61, 81, 

 122, 153, 192, 229 



Royal Scottish, 25, 

 61, 81, 123, 152, 192 

 Society of Decorative Art, 396 

 Soil of Egypt, rise in the, 1 26 

 Solly on the impurities of water, 18G 

 Sound, laws of, by Russell, 82, 124 

 Southampton docks, 170 

 South coast and London and Brighton 

 I'ailway, 95 



Devoa railway, opening of, 

 263 



South Sta6rordshire mines, 30 



Spanish surveys, 199 



Speed on railways, 317 



Spence on patents, (review), 106, 196 



Spinning jenny, invention of, 77 



Stability and strength of Hungerford 



bridge, 73 

 Stagnant water, 335 

 Stained glass, 86 



Staite's light from electricity, 399 

 Star catalogues, 255 

 Statistics of railways, 40 

 Steam boilers. Lodge's patent, 181 

 coaches, Rennie on, 115 

 drainage, Rennie on, 76 

 engine, high pressure, investi- 

 gated by Dr. Alhan, (review), 145 

 engine, Lighthall's patent, 87 

 engine, Loper's patent, 87 

 engine regulator, Poole's pa- 

 tent, 58 



engine, Rennie on, 50 

 engine, treatise on, by J. Hann 

 (review), 194 



engines, Knowelden's patent 

 356 

 Steamers for the Ganges, 30 



government, armament for, 

 161,315 

 Steam hammer, Condie's patent, 224 

 Heppel on the expansive ac- 

 tion of, 227 



indicator, Sydney Smith's, 399 

 jet for ventilating, 230 

 navigation and botany, 256 



new act on, 30 

 on the expansive action of, 

 228 



packet company, Brighton 

 and continental, 263 



power for cranes, Johnson's 

 patent, 291 



ship " Gorgon," recovery of, 

 (review), 18 



ship " Great Britain," 31, 109, 

 127 



ship " Sphynx," recovery of, 

 110 



temperature of, 351 

 vessel " Express," 263 

 vessel " Prince Metternich," 

 164 

 Steam, working of expansively, 370 

 Stephenson on the double gauge (re- 

 view), 289 

 Stephenson's railway evidence, 317 

 three-cylinder locomo- 

 tive engine, 120 

 Stewart's improved chimney cans, 

 153 



patent iron & brass moulds, 

 122 

 Stone bridge over the river Meuse, 



348 

 Stone lifter, 262 



Stone, lithographic, in Arabia, 111 

 Strode's pneumatic hydraulic engine, 



317 

 Submarine telegraph, 31 

 Suez, cutting of the isthmus of, 126 

 Sulphuric acid, lecture on, by H. 



Noad, 262 

 Sunderland harbour improvements, 



by J. .Murray, 189 

 Sun, the central, 110 

 Surgeons, college of, 400 

 Surveying, Rennie on, 150 

 Suspension bridge, Lambeth, 127 



bridges in India, Dredge's, 

 31, 263,289 



railway, Cowper's, 

 369 



strain on the plat- 

 form of, 97 

 Swinemiinde, harbour of, 93 

 Symmetrical beauty, Hay on, 25 



Syracuse, ancient, AngcU on, 35, 62 

 System of colouring geological maps, 

 Salter's, 287 



Tait, G., on white light, 25 



Tail, W., on setting out railway 

 curves, 41 



Tangible astronomy, 255 



Tate on the expansive action of steam, 

 228 



Tate's algebra made easy, (review), 92 



Taylor's patent gun cotton, 142 



Telegraph, electric, Highton's, 400 



Telegraph, electric, Rennie on, 148 

 electro-magnetic, Nott's 

 patent, 123 



the Admiralty, 164 



Telescope, Lord Rosse's, 254 



Temperature of steam, 351 



Termessus, discovery of, 34 



Terminus of the Paris and Lyons 

 railway, 29 



Tessellated work, Austin and Ram- 

 mell's patent, 89 



Test for distinguishing steel from 

 iron, 335 



Teychenne's patent impermeable so- 

 lution for stone, 91 



Theatres, new, at Vienna, 29, 163 



Theatres and public buildings, acous- 

 tics of, 29 



Theatres, scenery and decoration of, 

 by Dwyer, 23, 187 



Thermogenic drawing, 94 



Thrust of arches, 67 



Tidal harbour board, 399 



Tides of the air, 255 



Tides, on the progress of, 259 



Timber, Burnettizing, 28 



Tires of railway wheels, 230 



Towns, on the air and water of, 127 



Toynbee, on ventilation being ren- 

 dered compulsory, 155 



Trabeate and Arcuate architecture, 4 



Tradesman's book of ornamental de- 

 signs, by S. Leith, (review), 202, 

 247 



Traffic, quick and slow, 317 



Transit instrument. Prof. Smyth on 

 the changes of position, 286 



Trent valley railway, 95 



Tribute to British science, 400 



Trieste and the Rhine, communica- 

 tion between, 95 



Trigonometry, plane and spherical, 

 by Jeans, (review), 393 



Trinity church, Edinburgh, demoli- 

 tion of, 31 



Paddington, 31 



Truss frames of bridges, Rider's 

 patent, 87 



Tubular bridges, 64,376 



Tunnel across the St. Lawrence, 310 



Tunnelling of the Alps, 30 



Turbine, the, 77 



Turkish honours, 400 



Turner, H., on ancient decorative 

 art, 22 



Tuscan "maremme," 175 



Tyre and Sidon, Newbold on, 112 



U 



Ulm minster, restoration of, 29 



Universal time table, Bashforth's, 

 306 



University college, 296 



Unkel on the Rhine, moving moun- 

 tain near, 93 



Uranus, planet beyond, 9, 64 



Valley, the Chamonix, 162 



Valves for sewers, Hale's patent, 



181 

 ^'asques, Senor, death of, 308 

 Venice, and her aria, by !•'. Lusli, 



342, 373 

 Ventilating buildings, Ritchie's me- 

 thod of, 153 

 Ventilating, steam jet for, 230 

 Ventilation of house of lords, 175 

 Ventilation of mines, Ilichardsun 



on, 155 

 Ventilation, Rennie on, 149 

 Ventilation, Toynbee's paper on, 155 

 Vessels, iron, Kenuie on, 140 

 Vienna and Trieste Alpine railway, 



195 

 Vienna, new theatres at, 29, 103 

 Volcanic forniatiuus, artesian wells 



in, 208 

 Volcanoes. Lyell on, 185 

 Voltaic battery, 94 

 Vulcanized India rubber, 186 



W 



Wagon covers, Henson's patent, 223 



Walker's patent gas retorts, 290 



Walker's patent hydraulic and pneu- 

 matic machinery, 389 



Walker's patent ships' logs and 

 sounding machines, 59 



Walkinshaw's water-balance wind- 

 ing machine, 177 



Walton's patent for japanning me- 

 tals, 355 



Warcup's patent atmospheric rail- 

 way tubes, 90 



Wanning and ventilating of new 

 house of peers, 262 



Warner s invention, the ' long range' 

 (review), 159 



Warner's ' long range,' Sir Howard 

 Douglas on, 197 



Warping vessels, Beadon's patent, 

 291 



War plan. Lord Dundonald's, 127 



Water as fuel, 72 



Water balance winding machine, 

 Walkinshaw's, 177 



Water, decomposition of, by Dr. 

 Robinson, 258 



Water, decomposition of, by Wilson, 

 150 



Water, evaporation of, 130 



Waterford and Limerick railway, 95 



Waterhouse's patent railway axles 

 and signals, 247 



Water, impurities of, by Solly, 186 



M'ater, on the measurement of, 134 



Water, test by Uupasquier, 163 



Wiiter tueirons, smiths', 27 



Water wheels, Dripps's patent, 87 



Water wheels, Lamb's patent, 87 



Wafer wheels, Kennie on, 77 



Water wheels, Richardson's reve»s- 

 ing, 141 



Waterworks, Rennie on, 78 



Wave of translation in connexion 

 with the northern drift, 94 



Waves, on the action of, by Airy, 254 



Weale's letter to Lord J. Russell, 

 (review), 312 



Weale's quarterly papers on en- 

 gineering (review), 312 



Wear and tear on broad and narrow 

 gauge, 317 



Wellington statue, 6 



Weils, artesian, 7'J 



Westminster abbey, 95 



W^estmiusfer bridge, removal of, 5 



\\ estminsler,uew palace at, 2 li 1,233 

 284 



Wetterstedt's patent sheet metal and 

 paint, 225 



Whitehaven and Maryport railway, 

 90 



White light, Tait on the production 

 of, 25 



