INDEX. 



52 ; Great M'estein, 30, 212, 287 ; Great North 

 of England, 103, 160, I8i, 325 ; Greenwich 140, 

 184, 198, 287,327, 328: gauge, 112; guards's 

 whistle, 202; Hull and Selbv, 284; inclined 

 planes, 8, 15, 02, 129; Lickey, 62, 130, 290 ; 

 Kendal, 52 ; keys, wood, 236 ; Leeds and Selby, 

 130 ; length of, 112 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 

 396 ; London and Birmingham, 102, 129, 202, 

 395, 405 ; Lune, 52 ; JIanchester and Birming- 

 liam, 130, 139, 194 ; Leeds, 31, 139, 205 ; Mid- 

 land Counties, 130 ; Naples, 38 : Newcastle and 

 Carlisle, 130: North Shields, 284 : Oldham, 31 ; 

 Paris and Rouen, 157, 327 ; Saint Germain, 66 : 

 Versailles, 249 ; Pinkus's, 1 74 ; platelayer's gauge, 

 261; points, with engravings, 314; rails, 62; 

 improved, with engravings, 379, 434 ; screw, with 

 engravings, 160; shake of. 112; Smith's 124; 

 ■weight of, 112: report of select committee on, 

 225 : remarks on, 313 ; on Scotch, 52 ; on con- 

 stants, 323 : rope traction, stopper, 130 ; Saint 

 Petershurgh and JMoscow, 307 : Scotch, 52 ; set- 

 ting out on sidelong ground, 196 ; Sheffield and 

 Manchester, 103, 440 ; Shuttleworth's system, 

 29 ; siding, Versailles, with engraving, 250 ; 

 signal light, Stevenson's, with engraving, 150; 

 signals, 30, 92, 403 ; ditto, Hood's, 429 ; slopes, 

 with engraving, 219: South Eastern, 130; sta- 

 tion, Ajlesbury, 62: Liverpool, 17, 40, 75; 

 Manchester and Birmingham, 139 : Versailles, 

 with engravings, 249 : stationary engines, 129, 130, 

 396; statistics of rails, &c., 112 ;"Stockton and 

 Darlington, 236; Hartlepool, 102; Taff Vale, 

 103; template, with engraving, 434: tickets, 

 205 ; train controller, Hancock and Pettit's, with 

 engravings, 159 ; turntable, with engravings, 219 ; 

 ditto, Oldham's, 429 ; Versailles, witli engra\ings, 

 249 ; viaducts, timber, 284 ; wagons, Brandling, 

 63 ; friction of, 14. 



Bain gauge, Johnston's, 23. 



' Thom's, 23. 



Kefrigerator, Davison's, 167. 



Beport on the Caledonian canal, 397 ; Mersey and 

 Irwell narigation, 133, 135 ; of the select com- 

 mittee on railways, 225 ; on railway communi- 

 cation to Scotland, 52; remarks on, 313 ; on 

 railway constants, 323 ; on steam engine fur- 

 naces, 233 ; on the smoke nuisance in large 

 towns, 380: on the Severn navigation, 102: 

 painting of the new Houses of Parliament, 437 ; 

 ventilation of the Houses of Parliament, 391 ; of 

 the Old Bailey, 270. 



Eeviews : — 



A New Treatise on Mechanics, 1 74 ; Aikin's 

 Illustrations of Arts and Manufactures, 362 ; 

 Austin on Competition, 173; Bartholomew on 

 Specifications for Practical Architecture, 1 6 ; 

 Brooks on Harbours, 1 74, 189, vide Harbours; 

 Britton's Toddington, 278 ; Buchanan, Millwork, 

 by Rennie, 130 ; Byrne on the Doctrine of Propor- 

 tions, 63 ; Clegg on Gas-lighting, 191 ; ClitFord's 

 Arithmetic Considerations, 212; Companion to 

 the Almanac, 10, 416 ; Conder on Railway Tran- 

 sit, 101 ; Davies's Map of London, 174 ; Deacon 

 on Perspective Drawing, 400 ; Denton on Model 

 Mapping, 400 ; Dollman's Vicars' Close, Wells, 

 212; Eller's Belvoir Castle, 276; Ellet on the 

 Laws of Trade, 131 ; Excursions Daguerrieunes, 

 63; Fairbairn on the strength of Iron, 131; 

 Francis's Designs for Churches and Chapels, 312 ; 

 Gandy and Baud's Windsor Castle, 63, 101 ; 

 Gauci's Jleuai Bridge, 101 : Goldicutt on the 

 Competition for the Nelson Monument, 173 ; 

 Gordon on Railway ilonopolies, 1 74 ; Gravatt, 

 Letter to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Share- 

 holders, 400 ; CJregoiT, C. H., on the manage- 

 ment of a Locomotive, 131 ; Jesse's Windsor, 

 228 ; Johbins, Brighton Railway Map, 174 ; 

 Lardner, Dr., on Electricity and Magnetism, 400; 

 Montgomery on the Cotton Manufacture of the 

 United States, 01 ; New Supplement to Euclid's 

 Geometry, 63 ; Ouse Valley Viaduct, 400 ; Page's 

 Decorator, 228 ; Pamhour on Locomotive Engines, 

 12, 59 ; Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 

 99 ; Parker's New Quart Measure, 101 ; Parsey 

 on Perspective, 59 ; Peckston on Gas Lighting, 



174, 191 ; Practical Enquiry into the Laws of 

 Excavation and Embankment, 2 ; Pugin on the 

 Principles of Architecture, 274 ; Quarterly Rail- 

 road Journal, 63 ; Riddle's Logarithms, 131 ; Ros- 

 coe's London and Birmingham Railway, 05, 99 

 Russell on Steam, 280 ; Schinkel, Werke der 

 Hohereii Baukunst, 11 ; Sopwith on Geological 

 Models, 312 ; Strickland on the Public Works of 

 America, 100; Tattersall on Sporting Architec- 

 ture, 416 ; Taylor on Harbours, 191 ; Trench, Sir 

 F., Letter to Lord Duncannon, 363 ; Trotter's 

 Logarithms, 101 ; Tvas's Map of England, 101 ; 

 Webster on Patents, 28, 63, 190 ; Whewell on the 

 Mechanics of Engineering, 190 ; Whishaw on 

 Railways, 28, 62, 129 : Wicksteed on the Relative 

 Power of the Cornish Engines, 391 ; Williams, C. 

 W., on the Combustion of Coal, 11, 63 ; Wilme's 

 Hand Book for Mapping, 416 ; Wyatville's Wind- 

 sor Castle, 278 ; Year Book of Facts, 101. 



Rivet Machine, Stocker's, 56. 



Roads, vkJe Pavement, Granite. 



ancient, 40, 262, 300. 



Indian, 437. 



Italian, 38. 



Rome at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, 206. 



Roof, Polytechnic Institution, Vienna, with engrav- 

 ings, 414; sunken, raising and supporting, 285 i 

 Taafte's, 94 ; Versailles station, with engravings, 

 249. 



Rooke, John, on the improvement of the Lune, 187. 



on the standard of architectnral beauty and 



symmetrical form, 42, 75. 



Rope making, 248. 



Royal Exchange, 119, 156, 365. 



Scotch Academy, 98. 



Rules for calculating the horse power of steam en- 

 gines, 389. 



Saint Malo harbour, 1. 



Scaling instrument, 27. 



School of Design, Leicester-square, 90. 



Screw, on the power of the, 172, 219, 342. 



threads, on uniform system of, 431. 



Sculpture, decorative historv of, in France, with en- 

 gravings, 258, 329 ; in Italy, 36. 



Scutching machine, 62. 



Sea lock, 136. 



Sewer, Cowgate, 430. 



Shaft, Agly, 2. 



Shannon, improvements of, 103, 306. 



Sheathing, copper, 360 ; lead, 357 ; wood, 318. 



Shield, St. Malo, 1. 



Ships, vide Steamboat, Sheathing. 



Shipwreck apparatus, 125. 



Skating on artificial ice, 335. 



Skew arch, vide Arch. 



Slate chimnies, 183 ; strength of, 185 ; works, Pim- 

 lico, 185. 



Slating, Taaffe's, 9. 



Smoke, vide Combustion. 



consumption of, Williams, 11, 24, 211. 



nuisance of, in large towns, report on, 386. 



Societies, Meetings of, vide Architects, Institute. 



Society of Arts for Scotland, 66. 



Southampton Docks, 87. 



Spencer, George, railway friction band break, 415. 



Spencer, Herbert, tension viaducts, 213. 



on transverse strength of beams, 294. 



Spooling cotton, 62. 



Stamping engines, Cornish, 22. 



Stanley, E., on sinking through quicksands, with 

 engravings, 293. 



Stathcr, W., on reversing engines, 435. 



Statue of Rubens, 212. 



Steam, electricity of, 54 ; percussive action of, with 

 diagrams, 21, 253, 303,304,342, 390; powers 

 of, 281 ; pressure of, with diagrams, 12, 281. 



Steam-boat, vide Marine Engine, Propellers, Sheath- 

 ing, Steam Navigation, ■ Steam Power, Steam 

 Towing. 



Acadia, 19; Admiral, 327; African, 



32 ; Archimedes, 232 ; Atlantic, 255 ; Bohemia, 

 232 ; British Queen, 19, 139, 340 ; Canal, Tav- 

 lor's, 243 ; ChiU, 366 ; City of Dublin, 102 ; 

 Clyde, 172, 210 : collisions. Captain Tayler's plan 

 for preventing, 139 ; Cyclops, 59 ; Devastation 



287, 401, 439 : feed apparatus, Penn's, 401 ; Fire 

 Fly, 328 ; Flambeau, .'jl2 ; forms and propor- 

 tions of, with engravings, 301, 346, 382 ; Forth, 

 211 ; fuel. Grant's, 207 ; General Steam Navi- 

 gation Company, 139; Germ, 388 ; Gorgon, 59 ; 

 Great Liverpool, 19; Great Western, 19 ; Ditto 

 Company, 385. Iron: — Albert, 175; Alburkah, 

 175; Blackwall, 210; Cairo, 366; Elberfeldt, 

 210; Liege, 218; Mammoth, 175; Phlegethon, 

 327 ; Princess Roval, 32, 247, 287 ; Quorra, 1 75 

 Satellite, 300 ; table of, Fairbairn's, 147 : twin. 

 32; Wilberforce, 175. — Kamtscbatka, 401 ; Lonl 

 donderry, 211 ; Maria Theresa, 328: Missouri, 

 139; Mongibello, 209 ; Nemesis, 67 ; New York, 

 102 ; Oriental 8, 19 ; paddle-wheels, disengaging, 

 Grantham's plan, 358 ; ditto, Truscott's plan for 

 reefing, 358 : power, proportion of to tonnage, 

 19, 203; President, 19, 139; Russian, 101; 

 safety bulkheads, 210: signals, Melvilles, 175 ; 

 St. Petershurgh, 337; Stvx, 210; Tav, 210; 

 Teviot, 210 ; Thames, 2I0'; Tweed, 210; twin. 

 32 ; velocity of, 203 ; war, 1 75. 



Steam-engine, vide Locomotive, Marine-engine. 



boilers, prevention of explosion in, 154, 



319 ; powers of, 399 ; fuel for, 05 ; on increasing 

 the evaporating powers of, 438 ; Cornish, 21, 22, 

 31, 34, 324 : pumping, 31 ; explosions, account 

 of, 319; Fourdriaier's, 206 ; furnaces, Murray's 

 report on, 233, 312 ; Williams's, 234 ; piston. 

 Palmer and Perkins's, 335 : Pillbrow's condensing 

 cylinder, 316; power of, 415; reversing, 93; 

 ditto, Coe's plan, 336, 435; regulator. Hick's, 125; 

 rotary, Woolf 's, 50, 123 ; rules for calculating the 

 horse power of, 389 ; safety valve, new, 372,415 ; 

 valve, mercurial, M'Ewen's, 154 ; Palmer and 

 Perkins's, 335 ; slide, 93 ; throttle, 93 ; whistle, 

 Horner's, 184; Woolf's, 50, 123. 



Steam Navigation, American, by Von Gerstner, 199. 



Australian, 365 ; Chihan, report on, 



290, 421 ; Elbe, 233 ; Euphrates, 363 ; Havannah, 

 305 ; JNIeuse, 248 ; random notes on, 1 70. 



Steam organ, 247. 



Steam power, auxiliarv on the use of, for sailing 

 vessels, 109, 175, 356. 



Steam towing between Malaga and Gibraltar, 366. 



Stephenson, Robert, C. E., 5. 



Stephenson's theatre machinery, 430. 



Stevenson, D., C. E„ on the building materials of 

 the United States, 265. 



Stevenson, R., C. E., on the navigation of the Forth, 

 229. 



Stevenson, T., on the improvement of levelling and 

 surveying instruments, 373, 423, 434. 



Stone, vide Granite, Marble, Porphyry. 



artificial, 141 ; cutting machine, 196; L'nited 



States, 265. 



Stop-cock, Orwell's, 235. 



Storey, T., C. E., presentation of plate to, 325. 



Streets, safetv and convenience of, 120. 



Strength of beams, 79. 294, 346. 



Sulphuretted hydrogen, in 271. 



Surveying, double offset plotting scale, 146 ; earth- 

 quake, shocks of. 67 : Egyptian. 90; hypsometer, 

 10; level and stand, 354; levelhng staff, 357, 

 373, 423, 434 ; profile of roads, 22 ; scaling in- 

 strument, 27 ; telescope reflecting, 103 ; teles- 

 cope, measuring distances by, 424; theodolite, 

 double telescope, 317 : trigonometrical levelling, 

 66. 



Survey of the Thames, 402. 



Table of iron steamboats built by Messrs. Fairbairn, 

 147. 



power required to punch plates, 168; speed 



of steamers, 204 ; strength of beams, with dia- 

 grams. 79. 



Telegraph, electric, with engravings. 66. 237. 



Telescojie. on measuring distances by. 424. 



Temple church. 26, 403. 



Thames, high tides of. 404 ; survev of, 402 ; tunnel, 

 22,328,404.432.440. 



Theatre machinery, 430. 



Throstle, 62. 



Tidewave, Glasgow, 25 ; Thames. 404. 



Tile, arch, strength of, 393 : machine, Carville's, 55; 

 manufacture of, described, 341. 



