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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[July, 



Nottingham and Derby Cakai..— The tonnage on this canal has much 

 fallen oft' during last year. The Yorkshire route of rails taking the Hull, 

 ami some ot the Boston and Lincoln goods over their lines to Manchester, 

 and even grain and timber to Derby. 



Morpeth.— A new church is to he built, and the Rev. Mr. Grey, a relative 

 Earl Grey, has subscribed 1.000/., and nearly another thousand was lately of 

 snbscrtbed. 



Nottingham— St. Mary's church, tower unsafe, secured temporarily by 

 Mr. Cotiingham, architect, andHawksley, architect, has been called in by the 

 corporation ; the columns are split vertically which support the tower, and 

 temporary trussing is used to support them. 



Athens, May 12.— A statue larger than life, and executed in the Egyptian 

 style, has been found near Marathon, and is just brought to our museum. 

 The figure has an iron disc in each hand. Some assert that it is a represen- 

 tation of Antinous : others consider it an Apollo. 



The Speaking Machine.— I have as yet seen no notice in your valuable 

 periodical of an invention, which is, at present, attracting great attention 

 here, and which certainly merits every praise that can be bestowed upon un- 

 wearied perseverance and successful ingenuity. It is the Spraehmaschine or 

 the Speaking Machine, not quite appropriately called Euphonia. of M. Faber, 

 the result of a beautiful adaptation of mechanics to the laws of acoustics. 

 You are aware that the attempts of Cagniard la Tour. Biot, Miiller. Steinle, 

 to produce articulate sounds, or even to imitate the human voice, have not 

 been very successful ; in fact, our knowledge of the physiology ot the larynx 

 and its appendices has been so limited, that we have not even an explanation 

 of the mode in which the falsetto is produced. Mr. Faber's instrument solves 

 the difficulties. I can only give you a very imperfect idea of the instrument. 

 To understand the mechanism perfectly, it would be necessary to take it to 

 pieces, and the dissection naturally is not shown the visitor — less from a wish 

 to conceal anything, than from the time and labour necessary for such a 

 purpose. The machine consists of a pair of bellows at present only worked 

 bv a pedal similar to that of an organ, of a caoutchouc imitation of the 

 larynx, tongue, nostrils, and of a set of kevs by which the springs are 

 brought into action. [The further description would be unintelligible with- 

 out diagrams.] The rapidity of utterance depends of course upon the rapi- 

 dity with which the keys are played, and though my own attempts to make 

 the instrument speak sounded rather ludicrous, M. Faber was most suc- 

 cessful. There is no doubt that the machine may be much improved, and 

 more especially that the timbre of the voire may be agreeably modified. The 

 weather naturally affects the tension of the Indian rubber, and although M. 

 Faber can raise the voice or depress it, and can lay a stress upon a particular 

 syllable or a word, still one cannot avoid feeling that there is room for im- 

 provement. This is even more evident when the instrument is made to sing. 

 but when we remember what difficulty many people have to regulate their 

 own chorda? vocales, it is not surprising that M. Faber has not yet succeeded 

 in giving us an instrumental Catalar i or Lablache. Faber is a native of 

 Freiburg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden— he was formerly attached to (he 

 Observatory at Vienna, but owing to an affection of the eyes, was ol 

 retire upon a small pension ; he then devoted himself to the study of ana- 

 tomy, and now offers the results of his investigations arid their application 

 to mechanics, to the world of science. — (A Correspondent of the Athccneum.) 



Hamburgh, March 31. S. 



LIST OF MEW PATENTS. 



(From Messrs. Robertson's List.) 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FSOM MAY 30, TO JUNE 21, 1843. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment, unless olhenrise expressed. 



William Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for " improvements m 

 obtaining copper from copper ores, some part or parts of which improvements 

 are applicable to obtaining certain other metals contained in some copper 

 ores." (A communication.') — Scaled May 30. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, C.E., for "improvements in 

 the method or system of constructing boats and other vessels, which the in- 

 ventor intends to denominate the " Mondotian system." (A communication.) 

 —May 30. 



John Tappan, of Fitzroy-square, Middlesex, gent., for " improvements in 

 apparatus applicable to flues or chimneys, for the purpose of increasing the 

 draft therein, and promoting the combustion of fuel. (A communication." — 

 May 30. 



Thomas Forsyth, of Salford, Lancaster, engineer, for •' improvements in 

 machinery for making bricks and Ides." — June 1. 



Pierre Frederick Ingolrl, of Buckingham-place, Hanover-square, watch- 

 maker, for " improvements in machinery for mating parts of watches and 

 other time-keepers." — June 1. 



Henay Fox Talbot, of Locock Abbey, Wilts, Esq., for " improvements in 

 photograpy." — June 1. 



Martyn Roberts, of Carmarthen, Esq., for " improvements in machinery for 

 preparing, spinning, and winding wool, cotton, flax, silk, or any other fibrous 

 bodies." — June 1. 



Fennell Allman, of Salisbury-street, Strand, surveyor, for " improvements 

 in apparatus for the production and diffusion of light." — June 3. 



Junius Smith, of Fen-court, Fenchurcli-street, London, gentleman, for 

 " improvements in machinery for sawing wood." — June 3. 



William Brown, of Glasgow, merchant, for "improvements m the manu. 



facture of porcelain china, pottery, and earthenware, and which improve- 

 ments are also in part applicable to the manufacture of paper, and to the 

 preparation of certain pigments or painters' colom-s." — June 3. 



Richard Farmer, upholder and cabinet-maker, and Joseph Pitt, plumber's 

 brass-founder, both of Birmingham, for " improvements applicable to fixed 

 and portable water-closets, and beds or bedsteads, a part or parts of which 

 improvements are also applicable to raising and foreimg water." — June 6. 



Robert Smart, of the Commercial-road, Redcliff, Bristol, ship-owner, for 

 " improvements in paddle-wheels' — June 8. 



John Burns Smith, of Salford, Lancaster, cotton spinner, for " improve- 

 ynents in machinery for preparing, carding, roving, and spinning cotton, and 

 other fibrous substances." — June 8. 



Cartaret Priaulx Dobree, of Putney, Surrey, civil engineer, for " improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of fuel." — June 10. 



Henry Page, of Cambridge, painter, for " improvements in the mode of 

 painting, graining, or decorating with oil, and other colours." — June 10. 



Henry Austin, of 87, Hatton-garden, civil engineer, for " a new method of 

 gluinq or cementing certain materials for building, and other purposes," — 

 June 10. 



Edward Joseph Francois Duclos de Boussois, of Clyne Wood Works, near 

 Swansea, engineer, for " improvements in the manufacture of lead, tin, tung- 

 sten, copper, and zinc, front ores and slags, and other products, and in the 

 manufacture of their alloys with other metals." — June 10. 



Ernst Leutz, of Eastcheap, gentleman, for " improvements in machinery 

 for raising and forcing water and other fluids, which machinery, wlien worked 

 I by steam or water, may be employed for driviny machinery." (A communi- 

 I cation.) — June 10. 



Alfred Francis, of Vauxhall, Surrey, Roman cement manufacturer, and 

 1 Isaac Funge, workman in the employ of the said Aired Francis, for " im- 

 provements in the manufacture of ornamental tiles." — June 10. 



Samuel John Knight, of Water-side Iron Works, Maidstone, Kent, foun- 

 der, for " improvements in kilns or apparatus for drying hops, malt, and 

 other substances." — June 10. 



Thomas Wells Ingram, of Birmingham, engineer, for "improvements in 

 pressing and embossing wood, and other materials, in order to apply the same 

 to various useful purposes " — June 10. 



Samuel Sparkes, of Wellington, Somerset, foreman at a woollen manufac- 

 tory, for " certain improvements in machinery for carding wool, cotton, and 

 other fibrous materials." — Juue 10. 



John Tappan, of Fitaroy Square, gentleman, for " certain improvements in 

 apparatus for grinding and polishing cutlery, and other articles, whereby the 

 deleterious effects an the lungs and health of the workmen, produced by the 

 dust and metallic particles arising from the said operations are entirely, or 

 to a great extent obviated." — June 10. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for " the novel 

 application of certain volatile liquids for the production of light, and improve- 

 ments in the tamps and burners to be employed for the combustion of such or 

 other volalili liquids." — (A communication.) June 10. 



John Galley Hartley, of Narrow-street, Limehouse, mast and block maker, 

 for " certain improvements in paving and covering streets, roads, or other 

 wags." — June 13. 



Frederick William Eggleston, of Derby, confectioner, for " certain improve- 

 ments in the combustion of fuel and consumption of smoke." — June 15. 



Henry Bessemer, of Baxter House, Saint l'ancras, engineer, for " certain 

 improvements in the manufacture of bronze, and other metallic powder." — 

 June 15. 



Prosper Antoine Payerne, of Paris, doctor of medicine, for " certain im- 

 provements in keeping the air in mines and other confined places in a pure and 

 respirable state." — June 15. 



Thomas Johnson Irvine, of Peckham, lieutenant in Her Majesty's navy, for 

 11 certain improvements in packing cases, boxes, trunks, portmanteaus, and 

 other articles for containing goods, which improvements may, under certain 

 circumstances, be applied to the preservation of life." — June 15. 



George Lister, of Dursley, Gloucester, card-manufacturer, and Edward 

 Pudding, of the same place, machinist, for " certain improvements in the 

 means of covering the cylinders of carding and scribbling engines with wire 

 card, and in condensing the rovings delivered from such engines, and also an 

 apparatus for sharpening or grinding the points of the cards, which latter ap- 

 paraiusmay also be employed for grinding other articles" — June 15. 



I'.dward Hammond llentall, of Heyhridge, Essex, iron founder, for " cer- 

 tain improvements in ploughs, and in apparatus which mag be attached thereto, 

 for ascertaining the draft of instruments emploged in tilling land." — June )5. 



George Bate, of Blooinsbury, Wolverhampton, Stafford, carpenter, for '• im- 

 provements in apparatus for raising and lowering window blinds and maps." 

 June 15. 



J;imes Gardner, of Banbury, Oxford, ironmonger, for " improvements in 

 cutting hay, straw, and other vegetable matters for the food of animals." — 

 June 15. 



Samuel Brown, of Gravel-lane, Sonthwark, engineer, for " improvements 

 in the manufacture of casks and other vessels." — June 17. 



James Mackenzie Bloxand, of Hampstead, esquire, for " improvements on 

 meridian instruments." — June 20. 



John Read, of Regent-street, machinist, for "certain improvements in 

 ploughs for draining, subsoiling, and cultivating land." — June 21. 



