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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[April, 



nn.lprk the whole lenRth of Ihe cnpoe-room, are gtallngs open and nell venliUted by 

 l,auhwiv7«"v?nglshiand air to .he engineers, stokers, &c. It is an adm.rab e plan 

 sud. r/no ,'eaZ as yet has the advantage of; and each boiler has a fP-J"' ^^'^''^^V- 

 and nJavte readily uken out for repair, without mlerlermg w.th the other hollers, fhs 

 ^PtW of Mr I-aL's invention prevents the necessity of ripping up the deck, which is 

 rhec^ewilhoihe ste.mers when the boilers are re.,ulred to be taken out .roiu. hose 

 l«,eU and there too, the .leek covering the boilers, tile engineers and stokers have the 

 Tleht admUted by the hatchway over the engines only. The Terrible-s enpr.es are mos 

 ,i&tic hVyare HOO-horse power, the produelion of Maudslay, Sons, and Field, and 

 r^iXo advantage in thi, large war steamer. Her decks have hatchways in "riou parts. 



^"" . p ,;l..,l..„ ,V,a ol, n l,v..n tn Hi,. IrtWer liartS of hkT hull : aHQ 



how to advantage in IIII3 laiyewui aii^ai"-;'. ••^. "V-..- ..-.- .,- , ,,„ii . ^„a 



(■Mtlles Bkv lights, &c., for ventilating the ship even to the lower parts of her hull , and 



there are many other conveniences too numerous to mention, contributing to the efficiency 



f the ship and the comforts of the officers and crew, so that she may be said "be the 



' lue snip ail" " = ^, _ __ _^^^ i^,,.|, ,p|,^ Tprrihle iH tommaiided by Captain 



2^1, officers. 



fargest and most perfect war steamer ever built. The Terrible is coinraaiided by Captain 



Ramsav late of the Dee steam-vessel, and she is to have a complement of 1'- _ 



me" ana boys. At the trial, when she was off Sheerness, her rate of speed, by Massey s 



log. was 10-« knots per hour ; the engines making 14 to 14.J strokes per minute. 



1816 



LIST OF riEW PATENTS. 



GRANTED IS KNGLANU KROM 1 EURUARV 2b, 184G, TO MABCH 25, 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment, unless otherwise expressed. 



John Samuel Templeton. of Susscx-place. Kensington, artist, for '•improvements in 

 propelling carriages on railways ; and improvements in propelling vessels.' -Sealed Feb- 



"peu'r'Armand Lecomte de Foiilainmoreau. of New Broad-street. London, for "a new 

 mode of manufacturing and glazing cotton wadding, and its application to the making o. 

 mattresses." (A comunication.) — February .'8. 



' an improved pump, applicable to steam- 



James Soulier, of Limehouse. engineer, for 

 engines, or other purposes.*'— ftlarcli 'i. 



John Fuller, of Beacham- well, Norfolk, farmer, for " improvements in apparatus for 



sowing corn or other seed."— March J. ,,. , v c 



William Nicholson, of Manchester, Lancaster, engineer, and George \V ardsworth, of 



Sutton glass-works, iu the same county, manager, " certain improvenienls in the roaou- 



facture of glass and other vitreous products."— March 5. 



Robert Lewis Jones, of Chester, railway agent, for " improvements in reducing char- 

 coal and other similar matters, to powder, and in treating the same when in a state ot 

 powder, so as to k luler them suitable to be used in place of vegetable black-drop, DlacK, 

 lamp-black, and other matters."- March 5. 



Robert Warrington, of Apolhccarics'hall, London, chemist, for " improvements in 

 preserving animal and vegetable substances."- March 5. 



William Green, of Hyde, Cheshire, baker, and Mark Walker, of the same place, grocer, 

 for " certain improved apparatus for lacilltatine tlie putting on of boots to the feet. — 

 March a. . - „ 



Godfrey Woone, of Kensington, Middlesex, gent., for "certain improvements in the 

 art of engraving in relief.'"- March 1 1. 



Jean Joseph Ernest J!.irruel, of No. 172, Hue St. Jacques, Paris, chemist, for ■' improve- 

 ments in working of certain snlphurets to transform them into metal or oxides, and to 

 collect the latter ; also to collect the oxides from oxydised ores, equivalent to these snl- 

 phurets."— March II. 



William Nairn?, of MiUhaugh, Perth, North Britain, flax-spinner, for " a new mode, or 

 new modes, of propelling carriages along railways.— March 1 1 . 



Parfait Grout, of Rouen. France, but now residing at Leicester-street, Leicester-square, 

 doctor of medicioe, for " improvements iu the manufacture ol plaster-ot-paris, lamp- 

 black, and coke." (A communication.) — March 11. 



Frederick Grace Calvert, of Paris, for " improvements in the preparation of the article 

 called ' Jute," rendering the same suitable for various useful purposes."— March 11. 



William Price .Strove, Swansea, civil engineer, for " improvements iu ventilating 

 mines."— March 11. 



Erasmus B. liigelow, Boston. Massachusetts, for "certain new and useful improve- 

 ments in looms for weaving certain kiniis of carpets, or other fabrics of like character. 

 —March U. 



George Hinton Bovill, of Millwall, and Bobert Griffith, Havre, France, engineers, for 

 "improvements in apparatus applicable to the working of atmospheric and other rail- 

 ways, canals, and mines, and in improvements iu transmitting gas lor the purpose ot 

 lighting railways and other places."— March 11. 



Benjamin Shaw, Bradford, York, overlooker, for " improvements in preparing for spin- 

 ning worsted and oiher yarns."— March 11. 



Thomas Vaux, Frederick-street, Gray's inn-road, Middlesex, land-surveyor, for " im- 

 provements in the manufacture of horse-shoes, aud horse-shoe nails."— March 11. 



Cbales Ucbert Robinson. Strines, Derby, calico-printer, and William Bowden, ol the 

 same place, mechanic, for certain improvements in machinery for washing and cleansing 

 cotton, liuen, or woollen fabrics." — filarch 11. 



John Benfieid, Birmingham, Warwick, organ. builder, for "certain improvements in 

 making signals and communications on railways, and bet-reen railway- engines, carriages, 

 end trains, which are also applicable to other localities."— March 1 1 . 



Henry Austin. 10, Walbrook, London, civil engineer, and Joseph Ijuicll, Summer- 

 Street, Southwark, Surrey, engineer, lor *' improvenienls in the construction of railways, 

 railway-carriages, and conveyances."— March 11. 



Thomas Hancock, Stoke Newinglon, Middlesex, esquire, for "improvements in the 

 manufacturing and trealing of articles made of caoulcliouc, either alooe, or in combina- 

 tion \vilh other substances, and in the means used or employed in their manul'acture."— 

 March 18. 



JohnLongliotlom, of F.dwordstreet, Leeds, mechanist, for "improvements in the 

 manufacture of oil-cake, and in the machinery and processes for pressing and moulding 

 the same: which macliinery and processes are also .applicable to the manufacturing of 

 other articles from plastic materials."— March I.s. 



Bennett Woodcroft, of Manchester, iirinler, an extension ot letters pa'ent for the term 

 of six years from the I'Jiid ilay of March, IhJlj, being the expiration ol the first term of 

 fourteen yeai s for his invention of " certain improvements iu the conUriiction and adap- 

 tation of a revolving spiral paddle for pronellmg boats and other vessels on water."— 

 March '-'1: 



John Haskins Gandell and John Brunton, of Biikenhead, Cheshire, civil engineers, for 

 " an improvement in the construction of, and in the mode of opening and rtosing of 

 moveable bridges or arclies for the purpose of carryinif railways, tramways, or other 

 roads acruss canals, locks, docks, or other ojien cuttings."— March 25 ; two months. 



Charles Robert Robinson, of Strines, Derby, calico printer, for " certain improvements 

 in machinery lor tiering, in the printing of calicoes and other fabrics."— March 'Jo, 



Charles Hes, of Bordesley, Birmingham, machinist, for " an improvement In the method 

 of carding certain descriptions of dress fastenings, and other articles, and in the fabrics 

 employed for that purpose." — March -5, 



Thomas Howard, of the King and Queen Iron Works, Rotberhithe, engineer, for "im- 

 provements ill steam-engine comlensers."— March I'.^i. 



Robert Warrington, of South Lambeth, Surrey, gentleman, for " improvements in the 

 operation of tanning."— March 2'i. 



Thomas John M'Sweeny. of Killainey, gentleman, for " improvements in steering ships 

 and other vessels." — March -5. 



George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, George Gwynne, of Chester Terrace, 

 Regent's Park, Jamas Pillans Wilson, of Belmont, aforesaid, and John Jackson, of South 

 ViUe Wandsworth, gentlemen, for " improvements in producing light, and in materials 

 and apparatus applicable thereto ; and in treating fatty and oily matters."— March 2i. 



Alexander Parkes, ol Birmingham, artist, for "improvements in the preparatioQ of 

 certain vegetable and animal subswnces, and in certain combinations of the same sub- 

 stances alone, or with other matters."- March 25. 



Thomas Pope of Kidbrooke, Kent, gentleman, for " improvements in apparatus for 

 moving railway carriai-es on to railways, and in machinery for lifting and moving heavy 

 bodies." (A communication.)— March :.'.'i. 



Louis Setbat of Saint Soulve. in the departmentof the Nord, in Franc, chemist, for 

 " a new method of constructing the roofs of houses, buildings, sheds, and all other erec- 

 tions."— March I'.''. 



William Unsworth, of Derby, silk manufactnrtr, for " certain improvements in looms 

 for weaving." — Marcli iiS. 



Charles Smith, of Newcastle-street, Strand, Middlesex, for " improvements in cookinp 

 andculinaryuli-nsils, aud methods of heating and suspending, or fastening articles of 

 domestic use, and similar purposes."— March 25. 



Joseph Needham Tayler, of Chelsea, captain in the navy, for " certain improvements 

 iu propelling vessels; and also certain improvements in constructing vessels, so as to be 

 used in combination with certain machinery or apparatus lor movng sand- banks and 

 other obstructions to navigation, part or parts of which machinery or apparatus may be 

 used on railways, or may be adapted and applied to carriage or common roads. — Marctt 

 26th. 



Edward Crump Deli, of Ilighgate, Middlesex, surgeon, for "certain improvements m 

 apparatus for lighting the magazines and other paits of ships: applicable also for the 

 general purposes of lighting buddings, roads, or ways."-March 25. 



Edwin Cotterill, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for " certain improvements in articles 

 applied to windows, doors, and shutters, part of which has been communicated to bim 

 by a certain foreigner residing abroad." — fliarch 25. 



William Carpenter, of Bridge.street, Banbury, Oxford, watchmaker, for " certain im- 

 provements in thrtshing.machincs."— I^Iarch 25. 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



Messrs. Blair and Pliillips have written to us denying that they have 

 confounded tlie laws of motion and equilibrium in their tract, reviewed in 

 this .lournal last moiUh, and entitled " Au Essay on an Improved Method 

 of Construction for Viaducts, I'.ridges, and Tunnels, being an Application 

 of the Principle of Universal Gravitation, as illustraied in the Solar Sys- 

 tem." If they really have not made this mistake we cannot help saying 

 that they have been particularly unforlunate in the choice of a title to their 

 work. Their opinions have certainly the merit of novelty, but as they are 

 not supported by any proof except those which may be supposed to be de- 

 rived from an inspection of Ibeir diagrams, it seems no more than fair that 

 they shoulil point out where the standard writers on the theory of the 

 arch— Moseley, I'uiicelet, IJondelet, &c.— have failed in their reasoning. 



Christ Church, I'lymouth.— In answer to our old contributor Caodidus, 

 fsee page 08), we would observe that we assumed it to be an essential 

 principle of Pointed Architecture that the north and south walls of a 

 churcli should have windows, simply because we find this to have beeu 

 universally the case, without one single exception, in the ancient examples 

 of Ihe art as practised by its inventors. It is al.so an indisuensible princi- 

 ple of n// good architecture that the light should be generally difiused, so 

 that no part of a building may be rendered inconvenient or useless by its 

 darkness. In a church lighted by clerestories only, the noitb and south 

 aisles being deep recesses witl.out windows, this defect must exist; ami 

 it will be only aggravated bv bisecting the recesses by galleries— unless 

 indeed the light be of Ihat'conveuient nature that it can shine round a 

 corner. The extent of unbroken surface of the north and south walls is 

 also a great objection. It is a characteristic distinction between Christian 

 and Greek architecture that large continuous surfaces without openings 

 are contrary to the spirit of the former. The case of the lanthern of Ely 

 Cathedral is a .strong precedent— for our view of the question, for at Ely 

 it is a matter, not of opinion, but fact, that the intersection of the nave and 

 transepts is lighted not only by the lanthern but by the lower windows. 

 The main principle for which we contended is that in Ecclesiastical archi- 

 tecture, the vertical lights are modified by the horizontal. 

 Amicus. — Simnis on Levelling. 



ERRATA.— Page lOG. In the article on " Unfaithfulness in Architec- 

 ture," in the concluding sentence of the last paragraph but one, after the 

 words, " instead of supporting a building, it is supported by it,' add " are 

 instances of architectural unfaithfulness." 



I'age 108. " Parsey's Air Engine." In the last paragraph but three, 



10(1 , , 1000 

 for dx, read ax. 



Page 102. " Tubular Bridge over the Menai." In the last paragraph 

 of the section on the " Practical limits to the length of the girder, for 

 " independent of the arch of the cross sections," read " independent of the 

 area of the cross sections." 



