Carr's improvements, 189 Cornish, 21, 224, 368
Craddock's condensing system, 247 Ericsson's two semi-cylinder engine, 441.
Expansive engine erected by Messrs. Rennie at Mr. Cubitt's, 232, 266 Haddington marine, 145, 206 Harold's grease cup, 137 Henson's patent condensing, 33 Hero's Engine, 309 Hoblyn's Manual, 309
Invention of the cylinder and piston, 310
Leonardo da Vinci, 32
Meriton's slate valves, 232, 283 Messrs. Maudslay and Field's practice in construction of valves, 282 Miller's improvements, 286 Parkes percussive theory, 89 Pike's metallic pistons, 77 Pilbrow's cylinder condensing, 66, 101, 103, 141, 224, 251
Rathen's high and low pressure im- provements,, 157
Seaward's, Messrs. J. and S., improve- ments (1842), 143
Sheathing boilers with lead, 144
Symington method of condensation,
Taliesin marine, 96, 480
Walker's (Thomas) improvements, 29 See also Boilers, Locomotives, and Railways.
Steam fire engine, Capt. Ericsson's, 384 STEAM NAVIGATION :--
American locomotive steamer, 442 American Marine, of Messrs. Ward, Stillman, and Co., 417 Anti-John Scott Russel, 240, 253, 264 Archimedes, the, 26, 106 Atlantic, the-Liverpool and Bris- tol Lines, 8, 205, 416 Clyde steamers, 240-252 Clarion, the, 368
Comet, the, and other vessels on the Shannon, 159
East India Company's frigate, Mem- non, 144
East India Company's frigate Acbar, 416
Fletcher's Dispatch (with the Syming- ton condensation) 241
Great Britain (late Mammoth) 240,
Great Western, 416 Hindostan, the, 352 H. M. F. Geyser, 154 Infant Prince, the, 456, 502 Kamstchatka, 222
Little Western, 128, 140, 192
Locomotive, the, No. I., 415
Of the Danube and Black Sea, 368 On the Volga, 319 Penelope, the, 280 Precursor, the, 368
Royal Mail Company's ships, 256 Taliesin, the, 96, 480
True principles of velocity, 422 Telegraph-explosion of, 9, 271 See also Propellers and Propelling Steam ploughing, 256, 320
Steering apparatus, Evartz's, 444; Hunt's, 456 Stephenson, Robert, Esq., C.E.; his latest improvements in locomotive engines, 30 Stevens and King's candlesticks and candle- holders, 30 Stevenson, David, Esq., C.E.; Treatise on application of marine surveying and hy- drometry to civil engineering, 303 Stewart's improvements in piano-fortes,
-, expense of rearing, 480 Time, general standard of; Plan for esta- blishing, 160
Timperley, Mr. John; description of process of Kyanizing, 405
Tools, English and American, 335 Townshend, Mr. Richard; description of the Ponte della Madelena, 301 Trivial, origin of the word, 107 Trovillo's improvements in manufacture of white lead, 268
Trunks, Getz's waterproof, 446 Tunnel, great colliery, 336 Turbine, the, 411
Turner, Mr. John; improvement of Hol- born Hill, 378
Tyler's spring leaf-holder, 398
Type composing machine, Young and Del- cambre's, 497
Walker's (John) water elevator, 209, 262, 282, 315, 320, 421, 474, 503 Warren's screw-cutting machine, 125 Water-mill, Whitelaw and Stirrat's, 160, 488 Water-pipes, freezing of, 19 Water elevator, (S. P's.) 297 Water-pressure, engines, at Illsang, in Bavaria, 299; the Turbine, 412 Waterproof cloth, 201
Water, hot, apparatus, 420 shoes, 48
spring, containing arsenic, 296 -,velocity of, instruments for measur- ing, 305
-,instruments for obtaining, from dif ferent depths, 306
Water, velocity of, through pipes, 375 Waterwheels, Robbins and Ashley's im- provements in, 268
Watch manufacture of Switzerland, 191 Waves, height of, 368 Wedge, the, 313
Weighing machines, Methley's, 46 Weights and measures, standard, 256 Welch's (J. W.) improvements in smelting, 93
Western, the Great, 416
the Little, 128, 140, 192 Wheeler's roller for window blinds, 281 Wheels; Losh's improvements, 46; Phipps's, 74; Onion's, 75
Wigney, G. A., Esq.; plan of a break- water and harbour of refuge for Brighton, 70, 193
Wilkinson, J. J., Esq., on copper sheath. ing, 403
Williams, C. W., Esq.; on furnaces and
boilers, smoke nuisance, &c., 4, 23, 118, 120, 129, 183, 203, 215, 243, 259, 291, 322, 492; on Mr. Armstrong's theory of diffusion of gaseous bodies, 62, 86 Williams's (O.) improvements in propel- ling, 124
Williams, P., Esq.; passenger-propelled locomotive, 413
Wilson's improvements in manufacture of leather, 478
Windmills, Garver and Fahrney's, 444 Window-blind roller, Wheeler's, 281 Wood rendered fire proof, 115; which sort least liable to warp, 251; preserva- tion of, 405
paving, 412, 477, 478, 480 Woollen machinery, Hickes' improvements in, 190; Hirst and Weight's, 317 Worms in garden paths, how to destroy,
Wright and Bain's electrical clocks, 48; electro-magnetic railway controller, 96, 97; electrical experiments on the Ser- pentine, 469
Young's improvements in lamps, 75 Young's (James) improvements in the manufacture of ammonia, 415
Young and Delcambre's type composing machine, 497
Zink, alleged adulteration of, 359, 399 Zoofagous paint, Mallet's, 43
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