Heart, korteriomanie mode of generating, 16,
Rutter's

f of 1834, 192, 335, 351,

195, 231, sommer

Pohon or tableaving of, 80*1

“ Knowledge,” Dr. Litchfield's Elements
of,” 73,112

CA ALS

Mr. Spring Rice on the ins in
of

fluence of, 388

han 2 713118
400

9 323 je zistos?q$ll
relative, of different substances, 196

L.

are be shirali
Heatons', Messrs., steam-carriage, 15, 48, 79
metallic piston, 134, 176, 216,

Laboratory, cheap chemical; 26. I snocsivas!!
228, 258, 447

Lamp, fisherman's, 91, 203, 4394063C2

Morey's Tapour, 281, 283, 3806079815M
Hersene for dope, 32 urival of, at the

Lang's, Dr., History of N. S. Wales, 3 314018
observations by,

La Place, 104
on nebulæ and clusters of stars, 247

Lardner's, Dr., Cyelopædia, 236 TS,GS10

Lathe, Reed's improved, 258
, Treadwell's, 350

lapidaries' universal, 289091111
Hops, the use of, formerly prohibited, 94

Latitude, Bessel's mode of finding the, 445
Valan Kode of packing, 208

Lead, &c., manufactures in, 125
power,
's mode of employing, to.

- Leather, Russia, 173
propel machinery, 96

Lecturing apparatus, difficulties attending, 63

Legislation, spirit of, ancient and modern, 92
Horses, ferrying with, 240
Hot-bed, natural, 208

“ Library of Popular Instruction,” 73, 112
Howard's vapour-engine, 410

Life Tables, discrepancies in, 346, 404
Human race, extinct variety of, discovered,431

Light-houses, British and Foreign, 58, 80 st":
Hunston light-house, 57

Lighting railway-tunnels, 1927
Hunt's distance-register for carriages, 49

Lights, comparative intensity of different, 57:10
Hydraulic projector, Witty's, 356

Liverpool docks, want of cranes at, 336
Hydrogen gas, experiments with the flame

Liverpool and Manchester railway, 48, 107,3
of, 140, 196, 252

182, 336, 384
Hydrostatic paradox, 356

Lock, Chubb's detector, 80
Hydrophobia, cure for, 352

Lockwood's steam-machinery, 350

For Locomotion, application of Saxton's dif-
I.

ferential pulley to, 3, 106

resistance of air to, 136
Illumination, Turkish mode of, 272

Locomotive-carriages, new, 240, 335. See
Inclined planes, on working, 50, 225, 342, also Steam-carriage.
384, 421

London Mechanics Institution, 103, 152,
India, steam communication with, 112, 176,

386, 442
272, 298, 320, 341

London improvements, 176, 256, 317, 331'sir
book-trade in, 256

London and Birmingham railway, 176, 288, 2:
overland communication with, 256 2 338

de 100, 31 OOTDI
India-rubber, how dissolved, 63, 192

Liverpool, telegraph communist
carpets, 352

cation between, 447

*SCTE 308
coal in, 4481

Longitude, Bessel's mode of finding the, 445
Indian-corn leaves, paper from, 426

Looking-glasses, Farrow's machine for sile
nk,
mpathetic, 448

vering, 1
Instinct Animal, Wells' Lecture on, 14 Luxor, obelisk of, 241, 259,

,335iansen uglogen
Inventors, rights of, 208
ROS

Vision
Iron and steel manufactures, stato of, 318 31

03018

M.
Iron, cast, contraction of, 1173 , !
castings, Prussian, 48

vremea
on the hardness of, 2016

Macerone's steam-carriage, 128, 160
Islington cattle-market, 112 Spor'a

Machinery, effects of combinations on, 8

914

improvements in, o
Isometrical perspective, 180, 203, 280,5..

wages, 29, 39
Istria, light-houses in, 58 ; "

ancient laws to restrict use of, 93c wym
Italy, coins of, 1897

exportation of, 94, 365

Macneill's tables for calculating earth-work;
J., 107

28
Jacquard, death o

Treatise on the resistance ofera
Jopling, Joseph,

on the most
pleasing

water, 369
form of an ellipse, 51; isometrical perspec-

M‘Curdy's crank-propellers, 286 1.6 carrogano".

*? $236.00
tive, 186, 203, 280

Magnet, artificial, 159
Jordan's damper sugar-furnace, 368

**** Magnetic co-variation lines, map af, by Mę z'ssons

Barlow, 193
chomogo! oh

K. 1936 1937. Magneto-electric apparatus, Saxton's, 65,
Kiln-drying flour, Tyson's apparatus for, 138

ring, 113, 191, 274, 329
King's saw for cylindrical work, 110

electricity, Timportant discovery a 1970
Kneller's process of evaporation, 172, 2185*112-fifuin, 6

GEEE 13

on

logon

96, 333

cotton-seed, og for watch pivots

, 272

5

INDEX.

453
Mameekort, new metal, 48

sdt jo 80101997

Observatory, Russian, 416
Malacca, Anglo-Chinese College at, 47

Oil, palm, how to purify, 234*? &*731tus 2011
Mav, stature and weight of, 20
Manure, soda for, 400
Maps, zodiacal, construction of, 339

olive, 196
Marble, Carrara, 64

Olefiant gas, 196

uisto53311*39
Marylebone Literary, &e. Iostitution, 174 Olive oil, 196
“ Mathematical Calculator,” Wallace's, 376 Organ, ancient steam, 220
Mathematical questions and solutions, 44, Ox-mill, Austrian, 33
346, 494-31574.

Oxygen gas, experiments with the Hame of,
science, on the importance 142, 196, 252
of, 265, 277, 330, 343, 373, 423
instruments, 443

P.
Measure, purchasing coals by, 101

Pacific, map of magnetic co-variation lines
Mechanics? Institution, London, 103, 152, in the, 153
386, 442

Pacificator, Mr. Toplis's, 384

Sydney, 317 Paddle-wheels, result of experiments with
Medals, English, 147, 187

different, 191
Merchants, ancient laws restricting the profits Paddles, sail worked, 399
of, 94

Palace, new, at Pimlico, triumphal arch at
Mercury, 166

the, 64
Metal, manufactures in, Treatise on (Cabi. - Pallas, the planet, 15
net Cyclopædia), 125

Paper, Chinese, 59
Metals, fusion of, 333, 352

Paper-making, 367 ; new materials for, 426
Meteorological stone, 384

Parabolic reflectors, introduction of, into
Meteors, fiery, shower of, 10,

light-houses, 57
Mines, Cornish submarine, 126

Parallel motion, substitute for, 105
Mint, Royal, mode of engraving and multi- Patents, new, 64, 128, 223, 237, 383, 446
plying dies at, 187

American, 9, 110, 6224, 264, 285,
Monument. Duke of York's, 305, 331, 447 350, 357
Morey's vapour-lamp, 231, 283, 380,

English and American, 224
Morrison's, Dr., Chinese Dictionary, 47... Paul's, St., Cathedral, 311, 331
Mortality, rate of, in various countries, 38 Pencils, Mordan'sever-pointed, improved, 286
Moseley's cotton-roving machine, 285 Perry, manufacture of, 134
Mosselman's zinc, 135, 320

Persia, Fraser's Historical and Descriptive
Motion, perpetual, 236, 256

Account of, 13
Moule's Essay on Roman Villas, &c., 151, Perspective, isometrical, 186, 203
Muniek breweries: 34. Bra

Phantasmagoria, catadrioptrical, 175
Mushrooms, poisonous, 396

Philosophical Transactions, 204
Murray, Mr. John, h

his experiments on Physics, Exley's new theory of, 423
flame, 328, 347, 379 TBA 299898981 soit Phosphorus, experiments with, 140, 196, 252

Charts 315.01 Physiology, Fullerian Professorship of, 16
te 103 min

“Phytozoa,” Ehrenberg's, 76
Napoleon medals, 189

Piano-fortes, tuning, 384
National Gallery, 32

Pistons, Barton's and Heatons' metallic,
Narigation of the Danube, 16

134, 176, 216, 228, 258, 447

Plane-table, mode of using, 443
steam, claims to the invention of,

Planes, inclined, on working, 50, 225, 342
62, 182, 222
hr, with India, 112, 298

Plate, manufacture of, 127

Platina found in France, 234
Nebulæ, Sir J. F. W. Herschel's observa-
tions on, 247

Ploughing.match at Aylesbury, 283
Nero, palace of, 151

Poland, rate of mortality in, 38, 3.,
New South Wales Magazine, 112

Polyzonal lenses for light-houses, 58.602
Dr. Lang's History of, 314

Popular Instruction, Library of, 73
New York,

Portland breakwater, 192, 320

Post-office steam-vessels, 400
Newton, Sir Isaac, 220, 239, 311, 330, 343,

Printing, calico, 398, 412
North-west passage, 191

History of Animalcules

,
-76

qol
Northampton life tables, discrepancy in,
346, 404

Prussia, iron and steel manufactures in, 318 31

Prussian iron-castings, 48
Nutt's aptarian system, 154, 185, 215, 290,
352

Prussic-acid, harpoon charged with, 32, 61'nstrol
mua pe noixe antETROCE 19. nfhPulley, differential, applied to locomotion,
OSE ATSIOLENTOTT

e counter-check, to relor.sk
Obelisk of buxor, its tranportation to Paris, city of, 227 Disember not wise 223
241, 259,
335

Pulp-sifter, 367** Caneva to 229.079 23is 1.8

canals in, 382

3731"}

Pritchard's Natura 3

3, 106

0.

INDEX.

455
Somerville, Mrs., poetical tributes to, 11, 48, Steam-vessels, American mode of working the
96

engines of, separately, 18,61
Sovereigns, coinage of, 399

simplification of machinery
Spectacles, invention of, 304

for, 19
Spinning-machine. American, 95, 367

with Hall's engines, 48
Spinning-mule, the self-acting, invention of,8

-, explosion of boilers in Ame-
-, operation of, rican, 82
29, 39, 70

on steering, from the bow, 238
beneficial to

canal, improved, 240
spinners, 121

fleet of, 256
Stancliffe's improved friction-rollers, 350

twin, 81, 160, 288, 353, 375,
Stars, Sir J. Herschel's observations on clus- 385
ters of, 247

without paddles, 361
Statistical Society, 112, 428

aerial, 384
Steam, improved mode of generating, 368

Post-office, 400
Steam-boilers, on heating with gas, 63 Steam-washing, 222
explosion of, 82

Steel, Wootz, 205
on supplying with water, and iron manufactures, 318
276, 350

fusion of, 352
improved American, 368 Steele, Thomas, Esq., on points of architec-
Steam-carriage, Heatons', 15, 48, 79

tural sublimity in London, 311; on sub-
Church's, 15, 48, 80

marine operations, 345
Russel's, 15, 32, 80, 110, Stenography, Scaife's system of, 224
128, 270, 288, 304, 352

Stevenson's, Mr., reflector-frame, 57
Roberts', 15, 32

Stocking-knitters, 320
Company, Scotland, 30, 128 Stone, Portland, 192
Gurney's, 109,255,278,384 meteorological, 384
Redmund's, 128

Caithness flag, 399
Hancock's, 128, 218, 256, Street-sweeping machine, 287
304, 352, 384, 400

names of, 418
-, Squire and Macerone's, 128, Sugar, iron softened by, 202
160

Sugar-furnace damper, Jordan's, 368
Yates and Smith's, 239 Sugar-boiling apparatus, Aitcheson's, 416
Dietz and Hermann's, 240 Sulphur, shower of, 192

improved wheels for, 264 Sulphuric ether, 196
Steam dredging-machines, 63

Sunken vessels, new apparatus for raising, 255
Steam-engine, simplification of, for steam- Surveying, problem in, 208
boats, 19

refraction of atmosphere, cause of
Hall's improvements in the, 48 errors in, 230
without the parallel motion, 105

instruments, 443
the cotton-spinners' best friend, Swallows, late arrival of, 208
121

Switzerland, wages in, 54
Heatons' metallic-piston, 134 Sydney, N. S. Wales, 314
Barton's ditto, 134

Symington, A., new clock invented by, 272
Watt's, 207

--, William, his claim to the inven-
Alderson's Treatise on the, 218 tion of steam navigation, 62, 89, 18

Branca's, 222
", rotary, 240

T.
substitute for pump in high-
pressure, 276

Tanning, swift, 351
employed to hoist building Tarbert Rock light-house, 389
materials, 9

Telegraphic communication between Londo
Steam machinery, Lockwood's, 350

and Liverpool, 447
Steam-navigation, Symington's claim to the Telescope, Sir J. South's equatorial, 80
invention of, 62, 182

achromatic, 277, 330, 343, 374
Blasco De Garay's, ditto, Telford, Thomas, Esq., death and character
222

of, 396, 414
prefigured in the Odyssey, Thames tunnel, 15
221

Theatres, new mode of lighting, 240
with India, 112, 176, 272, Thilorier's mode of collecting carbonic acid,
298, 320, 341

3-0
Thames, 304

Thorold, Wm., Esq., C. E., on working the
in Britain, 400

paddle-wheels of steamers separately, 61
Steam-organ, ancient, 220

Thrashing-machine, new, 116
Steam.raft, Burden's, 288, 375

Tides, phenomena of the, 105, 431
Steam-vessels on the Danube, 16

Tiles, glass, 48

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