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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[May, 



Turkey. — Messrs. William Fairbairn an 1 Co. have furnished designs for a 

 large building, to be erected for (he Grand Sultan in Turkey, for the purposes 

 of a woollen mil, dye-works, &c. It is to be built of iron and wood. 



A New Kind or Gas. — The Censeur, of Lyons, states that, at oue of the 

 late sittings of the municipal council, a trial was made ol a new portable gas, 

 to which its imentor has given the name of " hydroluminous." The appa- 

 ratus, says this journal, is very simple, and applicable to the smallest candle- 

 sticks, as well as to the largest and most splendid candelabra. The light it 

 gives is very fine, and it is so portable that it can be carried about with the 

 common hand candlestick. Nothing is said of the comparative cost of this 

 new lit,ht. 



The Iron Colonnade at Manchester intended to carry the Liverpool 

 and Leeds Junction Railway over the valley at Hunt's Bank, Manchester, is 

 738 feet in length and 24 feet wide, supported on 52 cast-iron columns, each 

 weighing four tons, carrying 46 main girders, averaging fii tons each ; on 

 these rest the longitudinal girders 86 in number, varying from i'J to 5\ tons 

 each, eighteen feet above the level ot the street below. The whole will be 

 fenced oft on the side next the prison by a cast-ir. n screen, eleven leet high, 

 the top of which « ill be seven feet above the rails. The style adopted, and 

 which is in accordance with the massiveness required, is a modification of the 

 Egyptian. The columns, with the mushroom-formed head, from which 

 spiings ihe favourite reeded capital of Egyptian architecture, slan 1 upon 

 stone basements, which project about one loot above the pavement, and give 

 firmness and solidity to the whole appearance. The quantity of iron in the 

 whole structure will be about 1,020 tons. 



Bradford Water Works were let to Messrs. Brook and Hardy, for the 

 sum of nearly £6,500. 



A very rich vein of lead ore has been disco\ered at the Shropshire Bog 

 Mines on the properly of Henry Lyster Esq. 



The grand staircase now building at Devonshire-house will be entirely 

 composed of Italian marble. The estimated expense is £10,000. 



An enormous Pumping Engine. — A sieam engine is now in course of con- 

 struction at the celebrated Bayle foundry in Cornwall, lor the Government ot 

 Holland, to drain the Lake of Haerlera. which is of far larger dimensions 

 than any yet built. We have seen a sketch of the engine, which consists of 

 a double cylinder, one within the other, the external cylinder is to be 144 

 inches in diameter and 12 feet high, and to have an annular piston with 4 

 piston rods ; in the centre is a smaller cylinder ol the same height 84 inches 

 diameter, with a piston rod 13 inches diameter ; in this last cylinder the steam 

 is to be first admitted under the piston at a high pressure, and then allowed 

 to escape into the external or larger cylinder, and act upon the upper surface 

 of the piston, the five piston rods support an immense cast-iron cap said to 

 he weighted to equal to 18 Ions. The steam cylinders stand in the centre of 

 eleven pumps, each pomp is 03 inches diameter, 12 feet ft inches long, and 

 10 feet stroke ; the present pump rods are suspended to the ends of cast-iron 

 beams 32 :eet long placed radially lo the centre of the steam cylinders, and 

 the other end ot these beams come in contact with the under edge of the 

 steam cylinder cap, so that as the cap descends it depresses one end of the 

 beams and raises the other end, and with it the pistons of the rumps. The 

 weight of v. ater lifted will be equal to 83 tons per siroke, if all the pumps 

 were in work at one time. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



(From Messrs. Robertson's List.J 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM MARCH 2.1, TO APRIL 27, 1843. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment, unless otherwise expressed. 



Nicholas Henri Jean Francois, Comte dc Crony, of the Edgware-road, 

 Middlesex, for " improvements in rotary pumps and rotary steam engines." — 

 Sealed March 25. 



Robert Faraday, of Wardour-street, Soho, pas fitter, for " improvements in 

 ventilating gas burner), and tamers for consuming oil, tallow, or other mat- 

 ters." i A communication.) — March 25. 



Sir Samuel Brown, knight, of Blaekheath, commander in Her Majesty's 

 navy, for " improvements in the construction of breakwaters, and in construct- 

 ing and erecting lighthouses and beacons, fixed and floating, end in apparatus 

 connected therewith, and also in anchors for mooring the same, which are 

 applicable to ships or vessels." — March 27. 



John S3 lveater, of Great Russell-street, Middlesex, engineer, for " improve- 

 i~"> ■ ti m 1 reducing ornamental surfaces on or with iron, applicable in the 

 manufacture of stoves and other uses, and for improvements in modifyinti the 

 transmission of heat.' — March 28. 



Arthur Dunn, of Rotherhithe, soap boiler, for " improvements in treating, 

 purifying, and bleaching fatty matters." — March 28. 



James Fletcher, foreman at the works of Messrs. W. Collier and Co.. engi- 

 neers, for " in protements in machinery or apparatus for spinning cotton and 

 other fibrous substances." — March 30. 



Frank Hills, of Ueptford, manufacturing chemist, for "improvements in 

 steam boilers or generators, and in locomotive carriages. 



Paul Provost Urouillet, of Hadley, Middlesex, gentleman, for " improve- 

 ments in apparatus for wanning apartments." — March 30. 



John Aston, of Birmingham, and William Elliott, of the same place, button 

 manufacturers, for "improvements in the manufacture of covered buttons." — 

 April 4. 



Joseph Browne Wilkes, of Chesterfield Park, Essex, Esq., for " improve- 

 ments in treating oils obtained from certain vegetable matters." — April 4. 



George Johnston Young, of Bostock-street, Old Gravel-lane, Wapping, 

 engineer, for " improvements in the construction of capstans." — April 5. 



Edwin Whele, of Walsall, Stafford, for " an improvement or improvements 

 in machinery for preparing tricks used in the mating of candles." — April 6. 



James Boydell, junior, of Oak Farm iron works, near Dudley, iron-master, 

 for " improvements in manufacturing bars of iron with other metals."— 

 April 7. 



Robert Hawthorne and William Hawthorne, of the town of Neweastle-on- 

 Tyne. civil engineers, for " improvements in locomotive engines, parts of which 

 drr applicable to other steam engines." — April 7. 



John Michell, of Calenick, Cornwall, for " improvements in extracting cop- 

 per, iron, lead, bismuth, and other metals or minerals from tin ore." — 

 April 11. 



James Napier, of Hoxton, Middlesex, dyer, for " improvements in preparing 

 or treating fabrics made of fibrous materials, for covering roofs and the bot- 

 toms of ships and vessels, and other surfaces ; and for other uses." — April 1 1 . 



Moses Poole, of Lincolu's-inn, gentleman, for " improvements m the manu- 

 facture of ornamented lace or net. (A communication.) — April 11. 



Uriah Clarke, of Leicester, dyer, for " improvements in the manufacture 0/ 

 narrow elastic and non-elastic fabrics of fibrous materials." — April 11. 



William Tindall, of Cornhill, ship owner, for " improvements in the manu- 

 facture of candles." — April 11. 



William Runwell, of Bowling-green-row, Woolwich, artist, for " improve- 

 ments in machinery or apparatus for registering or indicating the number of 

 persons which enter any description of carriage, house, room, chamber, or 

 place, and also the number of passengers and carriages that pass along a 

 bridge, road, or way." — April 13. 



William Henry Smith, of Fitzroy-square. civil engineer, for " improvements 

 in the construction and manufacture of gloves, mitts, and cuffs, and in fasten- 

 ings for tlie same, which may be applied to articles of dress generally." — 

 April 19. 



Charles Tayleur, and James Frederick Dupre, of the Vulcan Foundry, Lan- 

 caster, engineers, and Henry Dubs, also of the Vulcan Foundry, engineer, for 

 "improvements in boilers." — April 19. 



James Byrom, of Liverpool, engineer, for "an improved system of con- 

 nexion for working the cranks of what are commonly called direct action 

 steam engines." — April 19. 



Carl Ludcwick Farwig, of Henrietta-street, Covent-gardeu, tin-plate worker 

 for *' improvements in gas meters." — April 19. 



John George Bodmcr, of Manchester, engineer, for " improvements m loco- 

 motive steam engines and carriages to be used upon railways, in marine 

 engines and vessels, and in the apparatus for propelling the same, and also in 

 stationarg engines, and in apparatus to be connected ttierewith for pumping 

 water, raising bodies, and for blowing or exhausting air." — April 20. 



John Hand, of Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, artist, for "improvements 

 in the manufacture of tin and other soft metal tubes." — April 20. 



Edward Cobbold. of Melford, Suffolk, master of arts, clerk, for " improve- 

 ments in the means of supporting, sustaining, and propelling human and other 

 bodies on and in the water." — April 20. 



Thomas Oram, of Lewisham, Kent, patent fuel manufacturer, and Ferdi- 

 nand Charles Warlich, of Cecil-street, gentleman, for " improvements in the 

 manufacture of fuel, and in machinery for manufacturing fuel." — April 20. 



James Johnston, of Willow-park, Greenock, esquire, for " improvements in 

 the construction of steam boilers, and machinery for propelling vessels." — 

 April 20. 



Richard Prosser, of Birmingham, civil engineer, and Job Cutler, of the 

 same place, civil engineer, for " improvements in the machinery to be used in 

 manufacturing of pipes and bars, and in the application of such pipes or bars 

 to various purposes." — April 20. 



John M'l'uncs, of Liverpool, manufacturing chemist, for "improvements 

 in funnels, for conducting liquids into ressels." — April 20. 



Francois Constant Magloirc Viollette, of Leicester Square, Middlesex, late 

 advocate, for " improvements for warming the interior of railroad, and other 

 carriages." A communication.) — April 22. 



Richard Greville Pigot, of Old Cavendish-street, gentleman, for " improved 

 apparatus for supporting the human body when immersed in water, for the 

 purpose of preventing drowning." — April 25. 



James Moon, of Mihnan-street, Bedford-row, surveyor, for " improvements 

 in the manufacture of bricks to be used in the construction of chimneys and 

 flues." — April 25. 



William Brockendon, of Devonshire-street, Queen's-square. Middlesex, 

 gentleman, for " improvements in the manufacture of waddinq for fire arms." 

 —April 25. 



William Mayo, of Lower Clapton, Middlesex, and John Warmington, of 

 Wandsworth-road. Surrey, gentlemen, for " improvements in the manufacture 

 of aerated liquors, and in vessels used for containing aerated liquors." (A 

 communication.) — April 25. 



Charles Forster Cottcrill, of Walsall, Stafford, merchant, for " improve- 

 ments in the progressive manufacture of grain intojlour or meal, the whote 

 or pari or parts of which improvements mag be applied to the ordinary me- 

 thod of manufacture." — April 27. 



John Winspear, of Liverpool, ship-smith, for " an improved mode of reefing 

 certain sails of ships, and other vessels." — April 27. 



