INDEX. 



Iron, vide Materials, 

 anthracite, 260. 



action of air and water on, 275, 368. 

 cast, bridges, notes on, 226. 

 etTect of water on, 352. 

 corrosion of, in boilers, 199. 

 changes in internal structure of, 418. 

 hot and cold blast, strength of, 314, 415. 

 as a material for shipbuilding, 124, 254, 386. 

 relative properties of, 415. 

 sheathing, 386. 

 strength of, 178, 227. 

 use of, in architecture, 126, 235, 252. 

 works, use of gas furnaces in, 62 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 168, 416. 

 wrought, tenacity of, 285. 

 Irving, William, tile machine, with engravings, 8,1 



Jermtn, G. a., drawings, 4. 



Kalsomine, 278. 



Kyanizing tanks, 202. 



Laurie, J. G., on the economy of fuel in marine 



engines by expansion, 155. 

 Leather hangings, Leake's, 358. 

 Lecture, vide Architecture, Fresco, Vignoles. 

 Lightning conductors, with engravings, 103, 229 



277, 321, 357. 

 Lighthouse, ancient, 59 ; light of aU nations, with 

 engravings, 357, 401 ; Eddystone, 59 : MapUn, 

 with engravings, 60, 352 ; Menai, 318. 

 Lithochromy, report on, 249. 

 Liverpool Pavilion, with engravings, 4 ; architec- 

 ture, 278. , - 

 Lock, Gerish's, 204. 

 Locomotive engine, vide Railway. 

 Locomotive engine, electro-magnetic, four wheel, 

 experiment on, 242; marine engine, 283; power, 

 cost of, 381; Stephenson's, 37; straight axles, 

 273; theory of, 165. 

 Machine, vide Steam Engine, Marine Engine, 



wheel. 

 Machine, astronomical clock, Strasburg,396; bank- 

 note printing, 385; Barker's mill; 267; breast- 

 wheel, 265 ; dredging, steam, 351 ; forging, new 

 358; guide screwstock, with engravings, 373; 

 horizontal water wheel, 265 ; overshot wheel, 

 265, 266 ; pile driving, American, with engrav- 

 ings, 1, 135; rope, flat, for sewing, 26; stone 

 boring. Hunter's, with engravings, 351; straps 

 for driving, proportion of, with engravings, 35 ; 

 sugarmaking.withengravings, 410; tile, Irving's, 

 with engravings, 8, 61 ; tippler, for earthwork, 

 with engraving, 336 ; turbine, 265,267; under- 

 shot wheel, 265 ; water pressure, 126,267; water 

 power, 265; watch making, 395; windmill, 

 new, 1 70 ; Yankee geologist, 395. 

 Marbles, inlaid, 160. 

 Marine engines, vide Fuel, Motive Power, Steam 



Engine, Steamboat. 

 Marine engines, air pumps, 399 ; Anti-John Scott 

 Russell, with engravings, 170, 181 ; beam engine, 

 with engravings, 14, 157; bilge pipes, 368; 

 blow off cocks, 367 ; boUers, 226 ; sight tubes 

 for ditto, 353 ; wear and tear of, 367 ; Borrie's 

 direct action, with engravings, 213, 400; Clyde, 

 table of proportions of, 309 ; cocks, 226, 367 ■ 

 condensers, 289, 400 ; connecting rods, 400 ■' 

 crank pins, 288; direct action, 5, 157, 40l' 

 Boulton and Watt's, 399; engravings of, 177* 

 213; Field's, 399; Borrie's, with engravings' 

 213,400; Maudslay's, 103,399; Miller's,400; oh- 

 servations on, 399; economy of fuel in, by ex- 

 pansion, 153; engine frames, 252,287; expan- 

 sion valves, 252 ; furnace, management of, 367 • 

 bars, 226; frames, 252,287; Gorgon, with en-' 

 gravings, 4, 132, 157; gauge tubes, 140; hang- 

 ing bridges, 226 ; horse power, 405 ; improve- 

 ment of, 289 ; indicator, Moseley's, with engrav- 

 ings, 266, 288; Penn's, 321; Russell's, 277; 

 Little Western, 103 ; locomotive, 283 ; Maudslay 

 and Field's, 107, 399; Miller and RavenhiU's, 

 177, 400 : oscillating, 5 ; piston rods, 368, 399 ; 

 proportions of Clyde, 309 ; ditto, direct action, 

 399; rolling of vessels, 367; shafts, 400; side 

 rods, 418; slide valves, 226, 287, 399; 406; 

 speed of, RusseU's index, 276 ; stop valves, 368 \ 



surcharged steam, 406 ; table of proportions of, 

 Clyde, 309; direct action, 401; Maudslay's, 107; 

 Virago, 44, 399 ; valve motions, 287 ; slide, 

 226, 287, 406; waste steam pipe, 368 ; waste 

 waterpipe, 400. 

 Marylebone association for improved street navine 

 21,41,280. f 6. 



Materials, vide Brick, Cement, Iron, Stone, Timber, 



Wood, strength of, 2 "5. 

 Maudslaysand Field, proportions of maiine engines, 

 107. 399. 

 [ Metals, fixing by metallic process, 348 ; coating, 

 < Talbot's process, 358. 

 ; Metropolitan Improvement Society, 112. 

 j Mill, Marshall and Co.'s flax, 350. 

 Miller's direct action engine, 179, 399. 

 Millwork, see Machine ; Rennie on, 28. 

 Mining, sinking or tubbing, 386. 

 Model mapping, 56, 383. 



Monument, Napoleon, 139 ; Nelson, 20, 230, 284, 

 397; Scott, 212; Smolensko, 139; Warsaw, 139. 

 Moseley's steam engine indicator, 268, 288. 

 Motive Power, vide Steam Engine. 



Electro-magnetism, 234 ; water, 406 ; 

 atmospheric, 95, 139, 166, 172. 

 Moxhay, Mr., C.E., on strength of timber and iron, 



178. 

 Navigatiov, vide Canal, Hydraulic Engineering. 

 Nasmyth, James, C.E., ou tlie tenacity of wrounht 



iron, 285. 

 Nelson Monument, 20, 230, 284, 397. 

 Neville, J., on the force of falling bodies, 135. 

 New River Head, cleansing of, 396. 

 Paddles, vide Propellers. 

 Paddlebox boats, 368. 



Palace of Moorshedabad, with engravings, 151, 205. 

 Park, Green, 139 ; Liverpool, 139. 

 Parkes, Josiab, C,E., and Count de Pambour, 134. 

 Parsey, Arthur, 248. 

 Patents, new, list of, 32,68, 104, 140, 178,212 



244, 284, 324, 360, 428 ; Belgian, 61. 

 Pavilion, Liverpool, with engravings, 4. 

 Paving Association, Marylebone, 244, 281. 

 wood, history and theory of, 280. 

 Payeme, Dr.. diving bell experiments, 331, 388, 408. 

 Penitentiary, Pennsvlvania, 49. 

 Photography, 137,317. 

 Picture frames, 10. 

 Pier, Whitby, 359; Copper slag, 419 ; Greenhithe, 



Piledriving machine, American, with engraviuKs. 

 1, 135; force of, 1, 135. * 



Pole, W., C.E., on Gorgon engines, 134. 



Professional bequest, 253. 



Propeller, vide Marine Engine. 



Propeller, Archemedian, 243, 299; bolts, 405; 

 Booth's, 257 ; centres, 288 ; disconnecting appa- 

 ratus, Grantham's, 8 ; Trewhitt's, 35, 104, 116, 

 205 ; effect of backwater, 226 ; floats, 405 ; modes 

 of, 288 ; palmipede, 66 ; plates, 405 ; reversing, 

 34, 282; Swanfort, 66; tractive power of, re- 

 marks on, 19. 



Propelling through water, 257. 



Protestantism and Art, 141. 



Railway, vide Locomotive. 



Railway, atmospheric, 95, 139, 166, 172— axles, 

 broken, 418— axles, improvement of, 395— Bel- 

 gians, 389— breaks, Bunnett and Corpe's with 

 engravings, 71— curves, 263— estimates, 345— 

 France, 211— Gauge, 230— gradients on, 413— 

 hydraulic propulsion, 406— inclined planes, 166 

 —laying out of, 136, 165, 196— lectures on, 

 136, 165, 196, 230, 263, 312— Milan and Monza, 

 67— permanent, way of Birmingham and Gloster, 

 126— ditto. South Eastern, 200, 261— power on, 

 165 — rails, 313 — rails, rusting of, 137 — wear of, 

 314— regulations in France, 180 — report on] 

 104— section's, report of, 263— signal, Dockray's 

 Self-acting, 115— trains, 165— upper works, 312 

 —velocity on, 231— wheels, Phipps's, 05 — 

 Losh's, 65 — working expenses, 381. 

 Reid's floating breakwater, 153. 

 Remarks on ships of wood and iron, 10. 

 Report of the commissioners on the fine arts, 303, 



Respiration, experiments on, 331, 388, 408. 



Rome, Therma; of, 221. 



Roofing Liverpool Pavilion, with engravings, 4 ; 

 Simpson and Co.'s, 242 ; Asphalte, 284 ; Pano- 

 rama, 321. 

 Rope, wire, 212. 

 Reviews : — 



Albano's London Bridge, 64. 

 Ancient and Modern Architecture, 329, 424. 

 Anglican church architecture, 120. 

 Austen's, Goldman, 101. 

 Architectural Drawing Book, 237. 

 Bartlett's Index Gcologicus, 30. 

 Booth on Propelling, 257. 

 Boys' London as it is, 300, 

 Brown's Domestic Architecture, 63. 

 Bruflf's Engineering Fieldwork, 260. 

 Buchanan's Millwork, by Rennie, 28. 

 Castle's Land Surveying, 205. 

 Chalmers on Radiant Heat, 208. 

 Civil Engineer and Practical Machinist, bv C 

 J. Blunt, 425. ' 



Clegg's Architecture of Machinery, 235. 

 Tredgold's Steam Engine, 236. 

 Clifford's Fractional Arithmetic, 208. 

 Companion to the Almanack, 30, 425. 

 Cornish and Boulton and Watt Engines, by 



Thomas WicKsteed, Engineer, 426. 

 Cooke on Telegraphic Railways, 101. 

 DubUn Review, 117. 

 Examples of Gothic tiles, 64, 237. 

 Flower on Gas Meters, 392. 

 Gailhabaud's Ancient and Modern Architec- 

 ture, 340. 

 Galloway's Tredgold's Steam Engine, 299. 

 Gandy and Baud's Windsor Castle, 208, 339. 

 Grantham on Iron Shipbuilding, 254. 

 Gregory's Civil Engineering, 205. 

 Hansom's Music Hall, 209. 

 Haydon's Lecture on Fresco, 207, 261. 

 Iloblyn's Manual of the Steam Engine, 172. 

 Hughes's Geology of England, 31. 

 Lardner's Electricity, 208. 

 Latilla on Fresco, 171. 

 Lewin's Church's of Holland, 30. 

 Longman's Catalogue, 207. 

 Loudon's Cotta;;e Architecture, 209. 

 Love's Handbook of Manchester, 303. 

 Markland on English Churches, 101. 

 Memorials of Cambridge, 236, 262. 

 Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety ot Manchester, 260. 

 Moxon's Grainers' Guide, 208. 

 Papers of Corps of Royal Engineers. 100, 

 Pelzer's Pianoforte Player, 64. 

 Penny Cyclopicdia, 390. 

 Pocock's Life Assurance, 64. 

 Rawlins on Elementary Perspective, 208. 

 Seaward's Auxiliary Steam Power, 118. 

 Shaw's Electro-metallurgy, 208. 

 South Eastern Railway Map, 208. 

 Steam Navigation, Appendix to Tredgold, 235 



299, 423. 

 Stevenson's Marine Surveying, 119. 

 Stevens's Wood Paving, 280. 

 Transactions of the Royal Institute of British 



Architects, 258, 297. 

 Tredgold on the Strength of Iron, 237. 

 Tredgold Appendix, Steam Navigation, 236, 



299, 423. 

 Useful Knowledge, Mechanical Diagrams, 208, 



260,392. 

 Use of Mechanical Power on Turnpike Roads, 



280. 

 Walker's Architectural Practice, 31. 

 Walker's Electrotype Manipulation, 392. 

 West's Consumption of Smoke, 173. 

 Whishavv's Railway's, 31. 

 Wicksteed on Cornish and Boulton and Watt 



Engines, 424. 

 Williams's, C. W., Evaporative Power of 



Boilers, 301. 

 Williams's (ieology, 205. 

 Wilme's Ornamental Mapping, 209. 

 Year Book of Facts, 101. 

 Sandstone, use of, 102. 

 Sardis and Myceniv, antiquities of, 217. 



