INDEX

mode of manufacturing, 256
Adams's patent improvements in
rifles and fire-arms, 177; expe-
riments with his revolving pis-
tol, 217

(H. W.), patent galvanic
batteries, and methods of de-
composing water, and of burn-
ing air, 456

(W. B.), patent improve-
ments in railways, roads, build-
ings, bridges, locomotive en-
gines and carriages, 476

Addison's, Capt., railway signals,

467

Adorno's patent maps and globes,
134

Aërated liquors, Cowper's patent
improvements in apparatus for
holding and drawing off, 76;
Fevre's, for manufacturing, 196
Aerostation, Mr. Luntley's pamph-
let on, 292, 329

Agricultural implements: Bur-
gess's patent turnip-cutters, 99;
Samuelson's, 99; Stephens's
patent threshing machinery,
139; M'Cormick's reaper, 148;
Dray's turn-wrist plough, 211;
Guthrie's digging machines,
278; Nicholls's dibbling ma-
chines, 359

Air, Adams's patent method of
rendering, luminiferous and
burning, 456

Alarm, burglary, Ridley and Ed-
ser's patent, 261

Algebraic equations, Dr. Ruther-
ford's Tract on, 36: Notes on
the Theory of, by James Cockle,
Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-law,
171, 385, 448, 505; Horner's
method of solving numerical,
406; Halbert's, 501

Alkali, Longmaid's patent im-
provements in manufacturing,

416

Annealing ovens, Johnson's pa-
tent improvements in, 119
Anstey's patent mode of consum-
ing smoke and regulating
draught in chimneys, 75

Appold's patent self-regulating
friction break, 318
Archer's patent tobacco-cutting
machinery, 74

Architecture, naval: British Mu-
seum MSS. on, 288; neglect of
science in British, 293; prac-
tical experiments, 367, 426;
Sir Samuel Bentham's experi-
ments, 410, 427, 468

Arithmometer, De Colmar's pa-
tent, 156, 266
Ashworth's patent method of pre-
venting and removing incrus-
tation in steam boilers, 458
Astronomy, practical, American
progress in, 48

Barlow's patent improvements in
propelling, 74; in the manu-
facture of railway chairs, 76
Barlow and Gore's patent im-
provements in gas apparatus
and the manufacture of gas,
352

Barometer, Mr. Goldsworthy Gur-
ney's differential, 175, 189; with
enlarged scale, 385

Barytes, carbonate and oxides of,
Taylor's patent modes of manu-
facturing, 256

Batteries, galvanic, Greenough's
patent improvements in, 294;
Adams's, 456

Beadon's patent improvements in
roofings for buildings, 159
Bedstead's, Pace's patent improve-
ments in, 79; Newton's, 219;
Woods and Winfield's, 297;
Betjemann's connecting joints
for, 318

Bell telegraphs, Howland's patent,

157

Bentham, Brigadier-General Sir
Samuel: his arrangements for

the extinction of fire, 8, 166, 285;
hints for the improvement of
hospitals, 287, 304; British Mu-
seum MSS. on shipbuilding and
nautical affairs, 288; sliding-
keels, 289; experiments in naval
construction, 410, 427, 468

Berthon's patent boats, sounding
instruments, tide-gauges, and
current indicators, 481

Bessemer's patent improvements
in the manufacture of sugar,
269

Betjemann's patent joints for bed-
steads, 3:8

Bielfield's patent improvements
in the manufacture of papier
maché, 195

Birkett's patent mode of recover-
ing soap from wash-water, 499
Bishopp's disc engine, 237
Black's patent folding-machines,

101

Bleaching flax and hemp, Six's
patent improvements in, 272
Blooming iron, Brown's patent
machine for, 49; Ellis's, 197
Board of Health, Report on the
water supply and drainage of
towns, 233, 246, 368, 388

324

of Ordnance in other days,

Boats, life, Brown's patent im-
provements in, 139; Richard
son's, 177; the Northumber-
land model, 181; suggestions
for the improvement of, 426,
470; Tate's patent, 438; Ber-
thon's. 481

Boilers, steam: Williams's patent
furnaces for, 1; Mr. Fairbairn
on the construction of and
causes of their explosion, 12,
28, 45; Prideaux's improve-
ments, 18; Tatham's and Cheet-
ham's, 38; Dr. Smith on the
prevention of explosion, 213;
W. and J. Galloway's improve-
ments, 255; Andrews's, 356;
Rose's, 394; Newton's, 415:
Slate's, 455; Ashworth's method
of preventing and removing in-
crustation, 458

Bonnets, Hinks and Vero's patent
improvements in the manufac-
ture of, 195

Booth's, (J. P.), patent feather
fabric, 298

(J. R.), patent improve-
ments in generating and sup-
plying heat, 255

Boots and shoes, Marsden's patent
ventilating, 119, 170; Webley's
improvements in manufactur-
ing, 378; Pyke's, 397: Machin's,

318

Bower's patent methods of pre-
paring and retting flax and
hemp, 273

Bowie's, Mr. R., plan of freshen-
ing sea-water, 253

Boxes, fireproof, Milner's patent,

218

Bradshaw's patent fastenings for
garments, 134

Braiding machines, Amie's patent
improvements in, 218

Breaks, railway, Davies's patent,
134; Norris's, 139; Jowett's,
254; Lyall's, 356

Brewster, Sir D., on Mr. Fair-
bairn's tubular cranes, 148

Briand and Fell's patent water- | Carbine, Sears's patent, experi-

freshening apparatus, 121
Brick and tile machinery, Hart's
patent, 258; Nasmyth and Min-
ton's, 377; Tate's, 438

Bricks and tiles, Beadon's patent,
159; Cowper's, 393; Tate's,

438

Bridges: Norris's improvements
139; Dredge suspension over
the Leven, 366; Tate's improve-
ments, 438; railway, over the
Wye, 453; Adams's patent, 476;
Berthon's (pontoon), 481

Brooman's patent screw manu-
facturing machinery, 241; rope
and cordage machinery, 299,

341

Brown's, Mr. J., machine for
blooming iron, 49

-, (J. H.), patent wafers,
39; ships, boats, buoys, and
rafts, 139

414

(W. H.), patent helves,

Brunier's patent improvements in
obtaining power, 299
Brushes, Hawkins's patent im-
provements in, 298

Buchholz's patent improvements
in printing, cutting and folding
apparatus, 77; in motive power
and propulsion, 158
Buffers, railway, Wilkins's patent,
459; Adams's, 476
Buildings: of iron, in New York,
155; Beadon's patent improve-
ments in roofing, 159; Cowper's
coverings for, 393; Tate's im-
provements in constructing,
438; Adams's, 476
Bunnett's patent improvements
in omnibuses and railway car-
riages, 99

Buoys, Brown's patent improve-
ments in, 139

Burgess's patent turnip cutters,

97

ments with, 217

Carbonate of soda, Cooke's im-
provements in manufacturing,

396

Carbonates of barytes, strontia,
soda and potassa, Taylor's pa-
tent modes of manufacturing,

256

Carding engines, Kennedy's pa-
tent improvements in, 497
Cards, playing, Reynolds's pa-
tent, 459
Carpenter and Westley's phan-
tasmagoria lanterns, 173

-'s Capt., patent improve-
ments in screw-propelling, 401
Carpet beating and cleansing
machinery, Horn's patent, 221
Carpets, weaving and printing,
Melville's patent improvements
in, 74; Sievier's, 98, 475;
Crossley's, 118; Newton's, 119,

132

Carriages, railway and other,
Bunnett's patent improvements
in, 99; Davies's, 134; Perkins',
136; Heywood's, 156; An-
drews's, 356; Lyall's, 356;
Wragg's, 376; Haddan's, 377;
Smith's, 398; Adams's, 476;
Capt. Hepburn's (ventilated),
501

Cask-making machinery, Rosen-
borg's, 335

Castings, mouldings for, Fair-
bairn and Hetherington's pa-
tent, 139

Cave, a mammoth, in America,
154

| Cave's improved diving-bell, 153
Cayley, Sir George, Bart., on Mr.
Luntley's rotary balloon, 292,

Burglary alarm, Ridley and Ed- |
ser's patent, 261
Burners, air, Adams's patent, 456
gas, Dircks's patent,
178; Smith and Phillips's, 309;
Hallen's, 417

Butcher's registered self-acting
chimney-guard, 10

Button's, Allen's patent improve-
ments in the manufacture of,
135; Newton's, 219; Goode,
Boland, and Newman's, 378;
Empson's, 454

Bycroft's patent travelling wrap-
pers, 79

Cabs, Lyall's patent improve-
ments in, 336
Calculating machine, De Colmar's
patent, 156, 266
Caloric engine, Dunn's (Erics-
son's) patent, 18, 41
Calvert's patent modes of manu-
facturing extracts for dyeing,
printing, and tanning, 516
Canal navigation by steam, 191
Candle-burning apparatus, Jones's
patent, 19
Cannon, Lancaster's patent im-

provements in, 76
Caoutchouc and gutta-percha
compositions, Newton's patent,

219

Capstan, Read's improved, 212