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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[July, 



Hope-making in Ai>icricit.—"S\r. Buckinf»liam gives th ■ following tlescripti'jn 

 of tlip rope manufactory at Boston. " The ropew alk of the navy-yaril is one 

 of the finest I ever remember to have seen. It is nearly half a mile in lentith, 

 two stories in height ; it is built entirely of the same beautiful granite as 

 that used in the construction of the ilry tlock, and is roofed with iron and 

 slate. The window shutters are all ca^ed with inn, and the whole is rendered 

 fire-proof. Some very recent and e.vccllent improvements have been intro- 

 duced into the machinery here, by a native American engineer, Mr. Tread- 

 well, by w hich a steam engine at one end of the building is madr to furnish 

 the rec|uisite power for performing all the operations for rope-making, with 

 very little aid from the labour of men, from the first combing of the hemp, 

 and spinning it into threads, to the tarring and twisting the yarn, and the 

 winding of the whole into the hawser ftr the cable required. 1 had teen some 

 of the best rojiewalks in England, both in the royal dock-yards, and in llie 

 private establishments of Ijondon, and other parts, but 1 remember nothing 

 equal to this of Boston, cither in the beauty and perfection of the building 

 ami the machinery, or the admirable uniformity of strain in every strand and 

 every fibre in the rope produced ; or the finished rouridness, smoothness and 

 flexibility of the hawsers and cables, of w hich several were submitted to our 

 e.xamination, both in progress and completed." 



Steam Navigation on the Meitse. — One of tlie new steam-boats intended for 

 the Liegeian Company of Navigation, was last week launched in the Meuse. 

 It was towed as far as ilie railway to Val-Benuit, in order to put in the boiler. 

 AVithout the boiler, and with tlie engine ahmc, the draught of water of the 

 boat was 21 centimetres (8 inclies); with the boiler it is 25 centimetres flO 

 inches). The engine, w hich is a low-pressure one, and according to the Jack- 

 son plan, weighs only 2,400 kilogrammes. It was constructed in the manu- 

 factory of Messrs. Derosne, Call, and Co., at Charenton, near Paris. K.x- 

 cepting in Kugland and on the Ijoire, there are not yet any engines like it. 

 The engines of the steam-boats which were in operation last year on the 

 Meuse, were considerably heavier. The vessel w hich has just been launched 

 is 3 metres and 50 centimelres(ll feet) in depth, and 3fi metres and 50 centi- 

 metres (116 feet) long. Every thing on deck is nearly finished, and it will 

 soon be able to commence working. Great progress is mide in the construc- 

 tion of the second vessel, and it w ill be ready for service in a short time after 

 the first. It is estimated that the draught of ihrse boats, with their load of 

 fuel, will not exceed 35 centimetres (14 inches), while that of the former boats 

 amounted to nearly GO centimetres (24 inches); we are. therefore, induced to 

 hope that steam navigation, unless when the waters are e.Ncessively low, may 

 henceforth be generally adopted on the Meuse. — Another steam-boat of iron is 

 now constructing in the manufactory of M. Petry, an engineer, at Grevegnee- 

 !es-Liege. Persons experienced in the art of boat-building, who have had 

 opiortunities of seeing this fine vessel, consider that the country has not 

 produced any equal to it. 



LIST OP NEIV PATENTS. 



GRANTED IM ENGLAND FROM 27tH MAY, TO 25TH JUNE, 1841. 



Si,v Months allowed for Enrolment. 



George Bent Ollivant and Adam Howard, of Manchester, mill- 

 wrights, for " certain improvements in cylindrical printing machinery for 

 printing calicoes and other fabrics, and in the apparatus connected thereivith, 

 which is also applicable to other useful purposes." — Scaled June 5. 



John Mee, of Leicester, framesmith, for " improvements in the manufac- 

 ture of looped fabrics." — June 5. 



"William Hannis Tavlor, of Lambeth, Esq., for " certain improvements 

 in propelling machinery" — June 5. 



Joseph Gibbs, of the Oval, Kennington, civil engineer, for " certain im- 

 provements in roads and railways, and in the means of propelling carriages 

 thereon." — June 5. 



_ Miles Berry, of Chancery-lane, patent agent, for " certain improvements 

 in machinery or apparatus for ruling paper." (A communication. — June .5. 



James Colley March, of Barnstaple, surgeon, for " certain improved 

 means of producing heat from the combustion of certain kinds of fuel." — 

 June 8. 



Henry Richardson Fanshaw, the younger, of Hatfield-street, Surrey, 

 chemist, for " improvements in curing hides and skins, and in tanning, wash- 

 ing, and cleaning hides, skins, and other matters." — June 10. 



John George Boomer, of Manchester, engineer, for "certain improve- 

 ments in machinery for propelling vessels on water, parts of which improve- 

 ments apply also to steam engines to be employed on land." — June 10. 



Edward Hammond Bentall, of lleybiidge, Essex, iron-founder, for 

 "certain improvements in ploughs." — June 10. 



Robert Oram, of Salford, Lancaster, engineer, for " certain improve- 

 7nentsin hydraulic presses." — June 12. 



James Wills Wayte, of the " Morning Advertiser" office, Fleet-street, 

 engineer, for " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for letter- 

 press printing." — June 12. 



John Anthony Tielens, of Fenchurch-street, merchant, for " improve- 

 ments in machinery or apparatus for knitting." (A communication.)— June 



George Claudius Ash, of Broad-street, Golden-square, dentist, for " (>«- 

 provements in apparatus for fastening candles in candlesticks." June 12. 



Edward Palmer, of Newgate-street, gentleman, for '• improvements in 

 producing printing surfaces, and in the printing china, pottery, ware, music, 

 maps, and portraits." — Juue 12. 



EzEKtEL Jones, of Stockport, mechanic, for " certain improvements in 

 machinery for prepairing stubbing, roving, spinning, and doubling cotton, silkf 

 wool, worsted, far, and other fibrous substattces." — June 12. 



Alexander lloR.vrio Simpson, of New Palace-yard, Westminster, gen- 

 tleman, Peter Hunter Irvin, and Thomas Eugene Irvi.n, both of 

 Charles-street, Hatton-garden, philosophical instrument makers, for "an im- 

 proved mode of producing light, and of manufacturing apparatus for the dif. 

 fusion pf light." — June 17. 



Thomas Walker, of North Shields, engineer, for " improvements in steam 

 engines." — June 18. 



Willia.m Petrie, of Croydon, gentleman, for " improvements in obtaining 

 mechanical power, which are also ajiplicahlc for obtaining rapid motion." — 

 June 19. 



John Hacguton, of Liverpool, clerk, master of arts, for "improvements 

 in the method of affixing certain labels." — June 19. 



James Henry Shaw, of Charlotte-street, Blaekfriars, jeweller, for "im- 

 provements in setting wheat and other seeds." — June 19. 



Sir Samuel Brow.n, knight, of Netherbyers-house, Ayton, Berwick, for 

 " improvements in the means of drawing or moving carriages and other ma- 

 chines along inclined planes, railways, and other roads, and for drawing or 

 propelling vessels in canali, rivers, and other navigable waters." — June 19. 



John George Truscott Campbell, of Lambeth-hill, Upper Thames- 

 street, grocer, for " improvements in propelling vessels." — June 19. 



Joseph Gauci, of North-crescent, Bedford-square, artist, and Alexander 

 Bain, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, mechanist, for " improvements 

 in inkstands and inkholders." — June 21. 



Miles Berry, of Chancerj'-lane, patent agent, for " a new or improved 

 engine, machine, or apparatus for producing or obtaining jnotive jiower by 

 means of gases or vapours produced by combustion." — June 23. 



William Walker, the elder, of Standish-street, Liverpool, watch-finisher, 

 for " an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of the detached 

 lever watch." — June 23. 



George Tho.mas Day, of Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, gentleman, for 

 " an improved apparatus for creating draft applicable to chimneys and other 

 purposes." — June 23. 



John Henry Le Keux, of Southampton-street, Pentonville, for "an im- 

 provement in line engraving, and in producing impressions therefrom." — June 

 23 ; two months. 



John Goodwin, of Cumberland-street, Hackney-road, piano-forte maker, 

 for *' an improved construction of piano-fortes of certaiti descriptions." — 

 June 23 ; two months. 



James Sidebottom, of AVaterside, Derby, manufacturer, for " certain im- 

 provements in machinery for apparatus." — June 23. 



William Chesterman, of Burford, Oxford, gentleman, for " improve- 

 meuts 171 filtering Ixjuids." — .lune 23. 



Robert Stephenson, of Great George-street, Westminster, civil engineer, 

 for " certain improvejnents in the arrangement and combination of tlie parts 

 of steam engines of the sort comnionlg called locomotive engines." — June 23. 



John Lee Stevens, of Iving Edward-street, Southwark, general agent, 

 and John King, of College llill, printer, for " certain improvements in candle- 

 sticks and other candle holders." — June 25. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Mr. Mu.ihet*s pap* rs ; and Mr. Dttrics and Mr. Ryder's reply to Mr. Perkins* 

 answer, that appeared in last niontli's Journal, were not received until the latter 

 part of the month, they will appear in the ne.rt Journal. 



M. Q.'s communication will appear next month — tracings will be returned when 

 required. 



" The Mammoth "' is to be worked by the Screw, unltss new orders have been 

 lately given to the contrary. 



Wc muxt beg of our American correspondents not to forward Pamphlets by Post, 

 zee hare had several demands upon us for 5s. and Gs. postage for each. 



J lengthened ahsfraef of Mr. Hood's e.xrelltnt paper " on the Properties and 

 Chemical Constitution of Coal,'' has already been given in the Journal, and the 

 paper besides has appeared in another periodical. 



Works received and will he noticed ne.vt month — Mr. Rankeii's Patent Wood 

 Piivenu nt. Report on " the Improvement of the Navigation of the Forth belwi.rt 

 Stirling and Alloa" "Irish liailwui/s.'' Mr. Soptvith's description of Geological 

 Models, and Mr. Williams's u'ork on the Combustion (f Coal, 2nd edition. 



Communications are requested to be addressed to " The Editor of the Civil 

 Engineer, and Architect's Journal," No. II, Parliament Street, Westminster. 



Books for Review must be sent early in the month, communications on or before 

 the 20th (if with drawings, earlier), and advertisements on or before the 15th 

 instant. 



Vols. I, II, and 111, m.ay be had, bound in cloth, pr.ce £1 each Volume. 



ERRATA. 



In Mr. Clark's communication "On the Action of Central Forces," in the 

 last month's Journal, page 182, 2nd column, 31st line from bottom, for 



A\,C~A R, re^i A C = A B. And page 183, column one, line 29, for .r =^ 

 read, .v = — . 



