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Places, Close Rooms, Contiguous Doors, Short Chimneys, Opposite Fire Places, 

 Neighboring Eminences, Turncap, &c.. Contiguous FIues.Buruing of Smoke. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Arts of Illumination. 



Flame — Support of Flame, Torches and Candles, Lamps, Reservoirs, Astral 

 Lamp, Hydrostatic Lamps, Automaton Lamp, Mechanical Lamps, Fountain Lamp, 

 Argand Lamp, Reflectors, Hanging of Pictures, Transparency of Flame, Glass 

 Shades, Sinumbral Lamp, Measurement of Light, Gas Lights, Coal Gas, Oil Gas, 

 Gasometer, Portable Gas Lights, Safety Lamp, Lamp without Flame, Modes of 

 procuring Light. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Arts of Locomotion. 



Motion of Animals, Inertia, Aids to Locomotion, Wheel Cariages. Wheels, Rol- 

 lers, Size of Wheels, Line of Traction, Broad Wh^-els, Forn? of Wheels, Axletrees, 

 Springs, Attaching of Horses, Highways, Roads, Pavements, McAdam Roads, 

 Bridges, 1, Wooden Bridges, 2, Stone Bridges, 3, Cast Iron Bridges, 4, Suspen- 

 sion Bridges, 5, Floating Bridges, Rail Roads, Edge Railway, Tram Road, Single 

 Rail, Passings, Propelling Power, Locomotive Engines, Canals, Embankments, 

 Aqueducts, Tunnels, Gates and Weirs, Locks, Boats, Size of Canals, Sailing; Form 

 of a Ship, Keel and Rudder, Effect of the Wind, Stability of a Ship, Steam Boats, 

 Diving Bell, Submarine Navigation, Aerostation, Balloon, Parachute. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Elements of Machinery. 



Machines, Motion, Rotary or Circular Motion, Band Wheels, Rag Wheels, 

 Toothed Wheels, Spiral Gear, Bevel Gear, Crown Wheel, Universal Joint, Per- 

 petual Screw, Brush Wheels, Ratchet Wheel, Distant Rotary Motion, Change of 

 Velocity, Fusee, Alternate or Reciprocating Motion, Cams, Crank, Parallel Mo- 

 tion, Sun and Planet Wheel, Inclined Wheel, Epicycloidal Wheel, Rack and Seg- 

 ment, Rack and Pinion, Belt and Segment, Scapements, Continued Rectilinear 

 Motion, Band, Rack, Universal Lever, Screw, Change of Direction, Toggle Joint, 

 Of Engaging and Disengaging Machinery, Of Equalizing Motion, Governor, 

 Fly Wheel, Friction, Remarks. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Of the Moving Forces used in the Arts. 



Sources of Power, Vehicles of Power, Animal Power, Men, Horses, Water 

 Power, Overshot Wheel, Chain Wheel, Undershot Wheel, Back Water, Besant's 

 Wheel, Lambert's Wheel, Breast Wheel, Horizontal Wheel, Barker's Mill, Wind 

 Power, Vertical Windmill, Adjustment of Sails, Horizontal Windmill, Steam 

 Power, Steam, Applications of Steam, By Condensation, By Generation, By Ex- 

 pansion, The Steam Engine, Boiler Appendages, Engine, Noncondeusing Engine, 

 Condensing Engines, Description, Expansion, Engines, Valves, Pistons, Parallel 

 Motion, Historical Remarks, Projected Improvements, Rotative Engines, Use of 

 Steam at High Temperatures, Use of Vapors of Low Temperature, Gas Engines, 

 Steam Carriages, Steam Gun, Gunpowder, Manufacture, Detonation, Force, Pro- 

 perties of a Gun, Blasting. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Arts of Conveying Water. 



Of Conducting Water — Aqueducts, Water Pipes, Friction of Pipes, Obstruction 

 of Pipes, Syphon, Of Raising Water, Scoop Wheel, Persian Wheel, Noria, Rope 

 Pump, Hydreole, Archimedes' Screw, Spiral Pump, Centrifugal Pump, Common 

 Pumps, Forcing Pumps, Plunger Pump, Delahire's Pump, Hydrostatic Press, 

 Lifting Pump, Bag Pump, Double Acting Pump, Rolling Pump, Eccentric Pump, 

 Arrangement of Pipes, Chain Pump, Schemnilz Vessels, or Hungarian Machine, 

 Hero's Fountain, Atmosjjheric Machines, Hydraulic Ram, Of Projecting Water. 

 Fountains, Fire Engines, Throwing Wheel. 



