THE MECHANICS' MAGAZINE AND JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, MANUFACTURES, AND SHIPBUILDING. V.0865 VOLUME XVII. (NEW SERIES.) (WITH OLD SERIES, VOLUME LXXXVI.) JANUARY TO JUNE, 1867. LONDON: ROBERTSON, BROOMAN, & CO., "MECHANICS' MAGAZINE" AND PATENT OFFICES, 166, FLEET STREET, E.C. INDEX TO VOL. XVII. A. ACADEMICIANS, English discoverers and French, 310 Academy of Sciences, Belgian, 390 Actinic power of light, the, 309 Accident at the Blackfriars Bridge, the, 318 Adulteration of soft soap, 288 Aerial carriage, by M. Bright, 323 Aeronautical Society, the. 262, 277, 294, 342 Aeronautics in France, 404 Agricultural condition of France, 35; engines, 95 Air, in mines, 131; purification of, 95 Albert memorial, 21 Alkali, manufacture of, 405; in soaps, de'ection of, 272 Alloys, aluminium, 17; nature and properties of, 128 Bleaching gum, 208 Bessemer process at Troy, the, 353 Boat, safety fishing, 213 Boats, antiquity of live fish, 288 Boilers, improperly constructed steam, 37; overheated, Bolts and spikes, heading, 229; and washers, 325 Engineers' field book, 239; pocket book, 64 Inventors' almanack, 64 Knots, the book of, 240 Popular Science Review, the, 64 Railway and Banking Almanack, 64 Screw propeller, a treatise on the, 207 Steam, the velocity of, 271 Three military questions of the day, 192 Year book of facts, 239 Borax lake of California, the, 214 Boring, the art of, 365; rocks, 9 Bottle, a landscape in a, 272 Box, axle, 325 Brakes, railway, 127 Breechloader, another new, 246; Cornish, the, 129: Snider, CORRESPONDENCE:- Artillery, modern, C. A. W. Halverhout, 39 Boilers, effect of water on steam, H. K. Bamber, 295 Cartridges, central-fire, G. H. Daw, 55; metallic, B. Chains, fracture of, G. B., 327 Chilled shot, penetration of, B. Mitford, 215 Coppering iron, Bernabe's process for, Electron, 406; M. Bernabe, 407; W. H. Maitland, 407 Cranes, steam, Brown, Wilson, and Co., 103 Fouling and corrosion, R. B., 247; J. B. T., 295; W. H. Frost, the late, W. L. Browne, 24 Gas reverberatory furnaces, T. Morgans, 11 Life buoys, G. J. Gunther, 359; preservation, G. J. Mines, ascent and descent of, G. J. Gunther, 215 Rotary and reciprocating engine, B. Mitford, 391 Turret ships in France, J. Walker, 24 Valves, safety, T. Baldwin, 151 Vibration on the Victoria railway bridge, J. Crawford, 406 Water to London, supply of, C. F. Pattinson, 375 machinery, S. W. Worssam, 55 Corrosion problem, fouling and, 221 Cotton, compressed gun, 230; truck compressor, 349 "Course" system of London cabs, the, 176 CABLE, the Atlantic, 369; extension of the Atlantic, 227; Crucibles, manufacture of, 404 new sub-Atlantic, 199 Cables, telegraph, by C. Varley, 118 Cabs, the Course" system for London, 176 California, railway construction in, 406 Canada, 125; iridium in, 275 Canal, the Suez, 241 Candles, mourning, 144 Cannon foundry at Ruelle, 158, 173, 191, 205, 287, 334; projectiles from rifled, 6 Canoe, steam, 353 Carbon, bisulphide of, 112 Carriage, aerial, 323; of materials, 303; steam gun, by Eade, 371 Cartridge, the Boxer, 226, 259 Cartridges, military, 277; and projectiles, 245; central Casting blocks, mould for, 256 Crushing mill, 19 Crystal Palace fire, 9, 98; the, 2 Crystallisation of iron, 381 Curious experiment, a, 144 Currents, the ocean, 10 Curves, steep gradients and sharp, 339 Cutters, American revenue, 182 Cutting files, 114 Cylinders, casting, 34; hammering sheet metal, 101 D. Death in the cistern, 402; in the mine, 258 Defences, our national, 93, 99 Cement for fastening brasswork on glass, 272; an im- Diapason, application of the, 342, 383 Chalmers' target, the, 182, 323, 337 Chassepot breechloading rifle, the, 148 permeable, 128, 176 Channel, bridging the English, 381 Chignons, science and, 163 Chilled iron projectiles, 109 Civil Engineers, Institution of, 33, 114, 161, 209, 333, 351 Civil Service College, proposed, 358 Cleaning glass, 325 Clifton suspension bridge, 114 Clyde, shipbuilding on the, 337 371 Coals, Monmouthshire steam, 275 Drawer knob, 23 Drawing instruments, mathematical, 145 Dress, diving, a new, 241 Dressing fibres, 22; silk, 52 Drill-rest for grinding, 244 Dublin, College of Science in, 275; exhibition of 1865, the, College, proposed civil service, 358; of science in Dublin, Electro-cast v. pyro-cast bronzes, 320; magnetic induction, |