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THE CIVIL engixep;r and architects journal. 



[Decukkkh. 



Tlic Uiiifn/ Scrr'icr (itiir/fi: ni.-ikes tlif follnwinf; i-emnrks on tlie 

 construction of ;iii efficient new dock iit Devonnort: — '"On the 

 ^Ist tlie nliolc lJ();n-(l of Ailininilty, witli tlie principal Secretary, 

 assembled at Somerset Ilonse, and sat fur many hours in delibera- 

 tion on tlio subject. The Dovonpiirt Master ShipHright was in 

 attendance v.ith his plans, and Colonel (ireen, the C.E. and Arclii- 

 tect of the Hoard, was also present to support the plans whicli 

 have been condemned by Mr. Edye, and are now being carried out 

 at an enormous e.\pen>f. The world will laugh at the idea of 

 the.se men setting up themselves to correct such celebrated civil 

 engineers as AV'alker. I'endel, and Cubitt — names rendered his- 

 torical by their great works, and will not fail to remember the 

 Phakesperian adage. 'Fools rush in vvliere angels fear to tread.' 

 The Jirst stone of the new basin dock, acc(n(ling to the Admiralty 

 plan, was laid on the 'iOth, without form or ceremony of any kiiul. 

 It was characteristic of the abortive i)lan; and with so untimely a 

 birth, we cannot hel)) prophecying tliat tliis Somerset House infant 

 will never live to be reared." — Our contemporary continues: '• W'e 

 notice with great regret the report that the caissons at the new 

 and spoiled steam basin and dock works at Keyham have failed, 

 although so nmch was said of their admirable perfection and 

 utility when tried the otlier dav, and of the inrciitoi\ Mr. Scamp, 

 Assistant director of Engineering 'Works at the Admiralty. The 

 whole design looks very much like a gigantic^ blunder, at the ex- 

 pense of some 20,01)0/.; and now it is said the Admiralty depart- 

 ment are endeavouring to make Mr. Eairbairn, tlie contractor for 

 building the caissons, responsible for the design as well as for the 

 faithful construction of them. Tlius, if the caissons had succeeded, 

 the wiseacres of Somerset House would have assumed all the 

 credit; but now that they are likely to fail, or have not succeeded, 

 the contractor is saddled with the onus of the mistake." 



MaUhew Hodgkinson, of Red-street, near Nen-castle-iinder-Lyne, Stafford, mine 

 agent, for improvements in furnaces or apparatus for smelting ores and minerals, and 

 for the makint' of pisr iron. — November 2. _ _ 



Victor Emile Warmont, of Neuilly, Seine, Fr.ince. for improvements m dyeing wool 

 andotber librous materials and fabrics.— November L'. . . ,. 



Joseph Christian Davidson, of Valding, Kent, brick maker, for improvements in hme 

 and olher Idhis and furnaces.— November 2. .... ,, 



John Maltliews, of Kidderminster, foreman, for improvements in sizing paper.— No- 



^To'lfasBateman, of Upper-street, Islington, cooper, for improvements in life-boats.- 



' ATdlibalrt'slate. of Woodside Iron Works, Dudley, for improvements in canal naviga. 



""pierrcTn't'oine'Auguste de la Barre dc Nanteuil, of Lcicester-street, Middlesex, for 

 improvements in propeUing carriages. (A communicalion.j--November . 



William and Colin Mather, of Salford, engineers, and Ferdinand HaselowsVy, of Ber- 

 lin, Prussia, engineer, for improvements in machinery, for washing, steaming, drying, 

 and finishing cotton, linen, and woollen fabrics.— November 2. 



John liorlaiid, of Norfolk-street, Strand, engineer, for certain improvements in weav. 

 lug machinery.- November 'J. . . - . .i *■ 



John Slate, of Wandsworth, Surrey, accountant, for improvements in stoves and fur- 

 naces, and in chimney-pots and regulators.— November L'. 



John Tatham and David Cheelham, of Kochdale. Lancaster, machine-makers toicer. 

 tain iniprovemenls in the manufacture of cotton and other bbrous materials and fabrics 

 composed of such maleiials.— November J. „ ,, , ,„ , „, ^„„, . .,„„, 



Richard Clybiirn. engineer to the firm of D. Maclean and Son, of S. George-street 

 East, Middlesex, for improvements in wheel carriages. (A communication.)-Novem. 



''"ames Black, of Edinburgh, machine.maker, for a machine for folding. (A communi- 

 "Sa7d''A;S.M'Br„oman,of the firm of J. C. Hohertson and Co of Fleet-street, 

 patent airents for improvements in railways. (A commniiicatlon.)-~November , , 

 '^William Fairbairn,'^ of Manchester, Lancaster, civil ensineer, lor improvements in 

 rriiips nnd Other liftine or hoisting niachitu'3.— November :/. .■ ^ ,- u* 



and otiie;' n^ g^^_ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^_ »'v'i.'"!,^.L-A'rf:'i!,L''!i:;;rr-Novt,bf ?'■. 



esex, engineers, 



ing, and in abparatns for lighthouses, signal, tioating, ™<i '"^°' "• ' Bj'»; 

 Samuel ICdwards, James Ansell, and Patrick I eyns, of Shadive 1, Mile 



Samuel i^dwarus. .aini. -'--J-^i-- pi"-— „,,e powei, and in pumps.-No- 



)ndon, gentleman, for improTements in 

 ,n pumps.— November 7. 

 j'ohn'Arel<ander'Le°rew,of Boston, America, gentleman, lor certain improvements in 



for certain Im 

 vember 



George Frederick Morrell, of Fleet-street, London, gentleman, for improvements in 

 obtaining and applying motive power, and also in piimps.-November 7. 



John Alexander Le^rew, of Boston, America, gentleman, lor certain improv, 

 sewing n,achines.--Noveinber 7. i„^, Hanover-sqiiare, Middlesex, Doctor of 



ll.Sr,7or'i'„7provtmrs"n1re';:n;fnVincri;s.ation of s^team and other boilers.-No. 



"^ohert Clare, in.,., of Exchange-buildlngs. Liverpool, gentleman, for improvements in 



'''lo^trCinsorL^srepiey! MlddTer,'e"gineVr, for Improvements in lifting and mov- 

 ing^" Krotber bodies, aid in apparatus for steering ships and other vessels-No- 

 vember 7. I„l,„>. nHcp Brouchton, Salford, Lancaster, merchant, for im- 

 !«r w"avhV^^d 1-^^^^ ^-«°'- -^"^ "^"" ^^^""^ substances, also fur sew.ng and 

 in tdegraphic and printing apparatus. (A communication.)- November .. 



lilST OP NEW PATENTS 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM NOVEMIIER 2, TO NOVEMBER 21, I80O. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment itnless otherwise expressed. 



Thomas Main, of the Strand, printer, for improvements in printing machinery. — No- 

 vember 8. 



James Rock, jnn., of Hosthigs, Sussex, coach-builder, for certain improvements in 

 carriages, which are also applicable, In whole or in part, to o ther machinery.— Novem- 

 ber 1). 



William Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, manufactured, for improvements la the 

 manufacture of candles and night lights. — November \K 



James Sfott, of Falkirk, N. B.. shipwright, for certain impr° vements in docks, slips, 

 and apparatus connected therewith. — November 1). 



Sir Francis Charles Knowles, of Lovell, Bucks, Bart,, for improvements in the manu- 

 facture of charcoal. — November 1*. 



Lucien V'idic, of 14, Kue du Grand Chantier, Paris, France, French advocate, for im- 

 provements in mrasnring the pressure of air, steam, gas, and liquids. — November it. 



Joseph Nye, of Mill Pond Wharf, Old Kent-road, engineer, for improvements in hy- 

 draulic machinery, parts of which improvements are applicable to steam-engines and 

 machinery for driving piles. — November V2. 



Georgt; Robins Ilootti, cf London, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of 

 gas. — November i2. 



Peter Sjjence, of Pendleton, Manchester, manufacturing chemist, for improvements 

 in the manufacture of alum and certain alkaline salts, and in the manufacture of cement, 

 part of which imi)rovements are applicable in obtaining volatile liquids. — N ovember 12. 



Kdwin Clark, of Palace New-road, Middlesex, civil engineer, and Henry Olapple, of 

 Child's Hill, Hampstead, for improvements in electric telegraphs, and in apparatus coa- 

 nected therewith. — November lli. 



Henry Medburst, engineer, in the employ of Messrs. Shears and Sons, of Bankside, 

 Southwark, for improvempnts in gas meters.— November \'2. 



Ktienne Massou, of Place St. Michael, Paris, gardener, lor improvements in the pre- 

 paration of certain vegetable alimentary subsiances for the provisioning of ships and 

 armies, and other purposes where the said substances are required to be preserved. — 

 November 11*. 



John Ball, of Ashford, Kent, engineer, for improvements in applying heat to bakers' 

 ovens and their ap])endages. — November 11'. 



Heory WimshursI, of Limehouse, Middlesex, shipbuilder, for improvements in steam- 

 engines, in propelling, and in the construction of ships and vessels. — November 11'. 



Charles Marsden, of Kingsland-road, Middlesex, cnginee.-, for improvements in 

 scissors and thimbles. — Noveniber ll*. 



William Duckworth, of Liverpool, coffee merchant, for certain improvements in the 

 manufacture of chicory, vAih. certain improvements in the machinery or apparatus for 

 the manufacture thereof. — November 1-4. 



Thomas Shore, of Exwich, Devon, miller, for an improved method of dressing flour . 

 November 1-4. 



Robert Howarth.of til. Chapman-street, Oldham-road, Manchester, for improvements 

 iu machinery for r.iisinif a nap on cotton, woollen, silk, and other fabrics.— November 14 



Abraham Haley, of Frome, Somerset, machinist, fur certain improvements in looms 

 for weaving. — November 1-1. 



Edward David Ashe, of Brompton, Middlesex, Lieutenant in her Majesty's navy, for a 

 new or improved nautical instrument or inslruaients applicable especially amongst other 

 purposes to those of great circle sailing. —Noveiuber l-l. 



John Swindells, of thelirm of Swindells and Williams, of Manchester, and Juce, near 

 Wigan, mauiifaLtuiing chemist, for certain improvements in obtoiniog products from 

 ores and other matters containing metals, ami in the preparation ami application of 

 several such products, for the purpose of bleaching, printing, dyeing, and colour making. 

 — Noveniber 14. 



Joseph Conrad Baron Liebhaber, of Paris, France, for improvements in blasting rocks; 

 also in working marble and stone, and in preparing products therefrom.- November 14. 



Charles Allemand, of Paris, France, gentleman, for an improved apparatus for pro- 

 ducing light.— November 14. 



Thomas Coats, of Ferguslie. Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland, thread manufacturer, for 

 certain improvements in turning, cutting, and shaping wood and other materials.— No- 

 vember li>. ^ . . , . 



Joseph Martin, of Liverpool, Lancaster, rice miller, forimprovements lu machinery 

 and apparatus for cleansing and otherwise treating rice and other grains, seeds, and 

 farinaceous substances.— November ll.;. 



Thomas Allan, of St Audrew's-squari?, Edinburgh, printer and publisher of the 

 Culi'dom-'n .lA'rn*,-'/, for certain improvements in electric telegraphs, and in the applica- 

 tion of electric currents lor deflecting magnets and producing electro-magnets.- No- 



vember 1(>. , », , . »,r j /^ t- 



William Laird, of Liverpool, Lancaster, merchant, and Edward Alfred Cowper, of 

 Handsworth, Warwick, engineer, for improvements in machinery for loading and dis- 

 charging certain descrii)tion3 of cargo in ships and other vessels, and in the construction 

 of such vessels.— November Hi. . 



John Hosking, of Islington, Middlesex, engineer, for certain improvements in valves 

 applicable to pumps, and also in apparatus to regulate the pressure and flow of water 

 and air through pipes.— November Ut. „ ». . t 



Thomas Duron, of Windsor Bridi;e Iron Works, PendlPton, near Manchester, Lao-, 

 caster engineer, for improvements in machinery and apparatus for moving engines trom 

 one line of rai:3 to another, and for turning them ; also for compressing certain sub- 

 stances, and for raising and lowering heavy bodies.— Novembiir I'J. 



Paul de Tolstoy, of Paris, France, General in the service of his Majesty the Emperor 

 of Russia, for improvements in .Iredping machines. (A communication.)— November \A. 



Clement Augustus Kurlz, of Manchester, Lancaster, practical chemist, for improve- 

 ments in dyeing. (A communication.;— November 11». „„ f„,. „,. 



Alfred Vincent Newton, of Chancery-Iane, Middlesex, mechan:cal draughtsman, foi an 

 improved composition applicable to the coating of wood, metals, plaster, and other 

 substances which are required to be preserved from decay, which composition maybe 

 also employed as a pigment or paint. (A communication.)— November !.». 



Robert Brown, of Liverpool. Lancaster, plumber and brass-tonnder, for improvements 

 in the application of pumps for raising and forcing water.— November 11». , . ^ , 



Henry William Ripley, of Bradford, York, dyer, for improvements in dressing and 

 finishins piece coods.— November 19. . * ■ .1 . 



John James Greenough, of the Strand, Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in Uie 

 construction of chairs, couches, and .=eats. parts ol which improvements are a so ap- 

 plicable to various purposes where springs for supporting hea^y bodits and re.istin^ 

 sudden and continuous pressure are required. {X communication.}— > ovember -I. 



EBKATA-Inthc article on "Motion of Water in Pipes," p. 374, col. 2 line 58,/V 

 "R and V- read "A and I ;" line 67,/or "of." read "at," line 68,/or "increasing," 



''■'page'"375,'and throughout the paper, for " .r," n<vl " a ;" col. 2, line 3o, and 42, for 



''?.';r3"6" col!" l.Tnf ?^/o. "Changes." r-w/ "Change;" line 38. /o; " Yetiieys," 

 Jr?"G;^n leys " 1 ne 04. /ol-" bend," read "head.-Col. '2, line 19 /m- "bend, "reo'l 

 "head;" Une 24,/or " aperture at the end," read "aperture of Discharge ;" line 32 and 

 50, for " S2 ," nnrf " s- ." 



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