THE MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, MUSEUM, Register, Journal, AND GAZETTE, JANUARY 1st.--JUNE 25th, 1842. VOL. XXXVI. "To distinguish and present, as it were, in several columns, what is extant and already found, and what BACON. LONDON: EDITED, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, BY J. C. ROBERTSON, 1842. INDEX TO THE THIRTY-SIXTH VOLUME. Academy of Sciences, French, 201 Adams's bow springs and spring buffers, Aerostation, 384 Agriculture, foreign, 294 Aikin's rotary steam engine, 267 pump, Lover's, 376 Alumine, sulphate of, manufacture of, by Ammonia, Young's improvements in the Anthracite, Crane's application of hot blast to, in the smelting of iron, 109, 494, 507 Apartment, largest in the world, 480 Arsenic detected by voltaic precipitation, 512 Artesian well at Grenelle, 191, 202, 230 Atmospheric pressure engine, 319 Axles, broken, experiments with, 479, Baddeley, Mr. W.; freezing of water-pipes, Bain and Wright's electrical clocks, 48; 97 Baker, Mr. W. B.; water-pressure engine Bands, Edwards's, for machinery, 413; Barratt's processes for coating by precipi- Barometer, new, by Dollond, 320 Barre's improvements in manufacture of Baths, Poole's improvements in, 76 Berger's process of manufacturing starch, 111 Bethell's process of preserving wood, 409 Bigelow's power loom, 78 Biscuit-baking, expeditious, 420 Blasting rocks by galvanism, 68, 320, 353, Blaxland's propeller, 449, 475, 487 Boats, machinery for steering; Evartz's, Boats, Holcroft's portable and safety, 337 Booth's (J. C.) improvements in manufac- (J. P.) patent for down wadding, 463 Bowsprings and spring buffers, Adams's, Brazendale, Mr. M. J.; self-inking print- Bridges, Gibbs's improved system of build- Indian method of laying founda- Carpenter, Capt.; application of his pro- Carriage on rollers instead of wheels, 385, Carriages and roads, resistance and wear of, Carr's improvements in steam engines, 189 Casks, Brown's metallic, 143 Cement, Fire-Preventive Company's, 85; for silk, wanted, 251 magnesian, 336 Cements; Col. Pasley's Treatise and Mr. Ceylon, pearl fisheries of, 144 Chalk, attractive of humidity, 106 Chambers and Franklin's improvements in Chapman, Mr. John, C. E., on Henson's Chest expanders, Harwood's, 286 Chlorine, Lee's process of manufacturing, Civil Engineers, Institution of, proceedings Clark's moveable loading muzzle, for rifles, Clay buttons, Prosser's, 80 Clegg's Treatise on gas-lighting, 387 Clegg, Sam, sen., Esq., C. E.; his services Cliff crane (Johnston's) for rescue of per- Cloth, new, from old clothes, Daniell's Cloth, waterproof, 201 felted, improvements in the manu- Coal, properties and combustion of, 4, 20, 23 in Borneo, 80 in France, 230 mines, state of labour in, 426 Coathupe, C. T., Esq, ; his mercurial meter Coffee-pot, Andrew's, 93 INDEX. Columbus and his egg anticipated, 287 spontaneous, 80; remedies for, 154, 206 Compasses, elliptic, 297 Compound interest, on calculating con- Copper sheathing, 192, 403 -, manufacture of, Duclos' improve- Cork-cutting machine, Mavy's, 127; La- Cornish steam-engines, 21, 224, 368 Crane's carding machine, 444 Crosskill's machine for crushing and tilling Cumberland, Geo., Esq.; power without Curtis, J. Harrison, Esq.; his new accoustic Cutlery, fancy, new method of ornament- Wright and Bain's, 96, 97 Electro-magnetism,application of, to motive Electro-metallurgy, books on, 401; Shaw's Electro-type, application of, to graduation process for copying engravings, new, 501 Encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa England's destiny, 288 Engraving, ornamental, 79 , lowering the lights in, 415 |