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THE

MECHANICS' MAGAZINE

JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY,

MANUFACTURES, AND SHIPBUILDING.

EDITED BY H. GARDNER, C.E.

VOLUME XXI V.--NEW SERIES.

(WITH OLD SERIES, VOLUME XCIII.)

JULY TO DECEMBER, 1870.

LONDON:

ROBERTSON, BROOMAN, AND CO., "MECHANICS' MAGAZINE" AND PATENT OFFICES,

and

166, FLEET STREET, EC.

INDEX TO VOL. XXIV.

A.

Barton's garden hose nozzle, 443

Baumann's direct-acting steam pump, 257, 371
Bavarian rifle, the Werder, 278
Beckton Gas Works, the, 112

ABYSSINIA," trial trip of the, 333; the breastwork Belgium compared with England as an iron-producing

monitor, 372

Accelerator gun, the Lynam, 97

Accident to the Irish mail, the, 217, 235

Accommodation, railway, 254

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country, 174; the coal and iron districts of, 30
Belgian coalfield, East, 119

Benevides' apparatus for indicating the properties of
steam and latent heat, 245

Bessemer steel, American improvements in, 169
Beuther's improvements in railway axle-boxes, 348
Bibles or breech-loaders, 155

Birmingham, the explosion at, 434

Black's improved sea messenger, 299

Black Country, the truck system in the, 354, 362
Boats, Moore's torpedo, 351

Bogie engines, Smith's improved, 49

Aeronautical science, the progress of, 21; society, 6, 58, Boiler explosions, 201; their number and causes, 192;

78

Affairs, colonial, 300

African diamonds, South, 421

Age, the problem of the, 154

Agricultural labourers, improved cottages for miners and,
164; Show at Islington, 373, 415, 433

Air and steam, the combination of, 134

Albert and Victoria Embankments, the, 74; Bridge at
Chelsea, 313; Hall, Royal, 463

Allen's sewer flushing apparatus, 263
Alliott and Sellers's improved axle-box, 85

Alum Works' chimney, the Goole, 207

America, how patent agents are treated in, 192; the
sleeping car system in, 201; the storm signal service in,

243

American Gatling mitrailleuse, the, 152; Government
eclipse expedition, the, 336; improvements in Bessemer
steel, 169; Iron and Steel Association, 30; steel manu-
factures, 408; supply of silver, 373; wonders, 136
Anderson's powder pellet machine, 281

Anemometer, on a new electro-magnetic, 282

Animals, Wilson's apparatus for shearing and washing,

245

Annual International Exhibition, 352
Anthropology, Mr. Evans on, 301

Apparatus for clearing the surface of rails of sand, &c., 12;
for dressing and finishing leather, Priestman and Son's,
423; for guiding and controlling the movements of
torpedo boats, 153; improvements in optical, 132; for
indicating the properties of steam and latent heat,
Benevides', 245; for the manufacture of sugar, Hardy's,
330; for moving railway carriages into stations and
sidings, Freeman's, 137; for puddling iron, Ponsard's
improvements in, 188; for preventing waste of water,
Hawley and Hill's improved, 295; for regulating the
flow of water, Chameroy's improvements in, 191; for
refrigerating beer and other liquids and for making ice,
404; for separating metallic substances by magnetism,
Vavin's, 117; for self-flushing the main sewers of
London, 263; for shearing and washing animals, 245;
for spinning tobacco, Wharton's, 276; for steering,
Jackson Brothers' improved screw, 173; for testing
cement and other blocks, 458; for ventilating ships,
buildings, and mines, Elliot's, 315

Architects, Naval, 382

Armour plates, trial of, 207

Army, organisation of the Prussian, 334, 383

Artificial productions of China, the, 93; stone and various
kinds of silica, 354

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Everybody's year book, 436

Mechanic, the young, 454

Partridge and Cooper's almanac, 454

Penfold on rating, 272

Scott's tables of logarithms, 454

Spence's specifications as bases of patents, 436
Stationers' Gazette, the, 193
Telegraph Handbooks, 436
Textbooks of science, 352
Whitaker's almanac for 1871, 454
Boring for water at Farleigh, 6
Boundaries of scientific knowledge, the, 256
Bourne's spherical steam engine governor, 209
Breast work monitor" Abyssinia," the, 372
Breech-loading firearms, Treller's improvements in, 206;
and cartridges, Hanson's improved, 116; rifles, our ships
and, 383
Breech-loaders for England, 127; Bibles or, 155
Bridge at Chelsea, the Albert, 312; for the Oudh and
Rohilcund Railway, 327
Brighton, the "Hodgson" tramway at, 226
Bristol and North Somerset Railway, 81
British Association at Liverpool, the, 185, 203, 221, 239,
244, 258, 262, 274; Milner's safes and the, 229; Hospital
for diseases of the skin, 137; British India, resources
of, 167; Indian extension submarine cable, 220; iron
trade, 103; meteorology, 73, 437; Mint, last year's
coinage at the, 454

Brittain's patent spanner, 11

Brockbank's improved pianoforte action, 315
Brown and Polson's improvements in hulling grain, 332
Brown's improvements in moving heavy guns, 224;
thrust blocks for screw shafts, 443

Brusch's improvements in operating the dampers of steam
boilers, 333

Buildings, the Exhibition, 155

Burleigh rock drill, the, 102

Burning gas without the aid of a blast, 458

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Cartridges, Hanson's improved breech loading firearms
and, 119

Cement, apparatus for testing, 458; Portland, 280
Chaff-cutters, Southwell's improved shifting gear for, 81
Chalon aerial machine, the, 78

Chameroy's improvements in apparatus for regulating the
flow of water, 191

Channel ferry, Leigh's proposed, 297

Chassepot and the needle gun, the, 66, 427

Chatham dockyard, extension works at, 40
Chatwood's improved hydro-pneumatic safe, 28
Cheapside, asphalting of, 199

Cheshire, description of the salt mines and salt manufac-

Chelsea, the Albert bridge at, 313

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Clips or shears, improvements in, 281
Clock, the Strasburg, 154

Closets, Parker's improvements in dry earth, 29, 300
Coal, Professor Huxley on the formation of, 390; for the
Admiralty, 100; for our navy, 92; and iron districts of
Belgium, the, 30; mines along the Union Pacific
Railroad, 9; trade of New South Wales, 211

Coal-feld, East Belgian, 119; the Silkstone, 133

Coast defences, our Portsmouth, 253

Coinage at the British Mint, last year's, 454; of silver
coins for Canada, the new, 2

Colonial affairs, 300

Collision, the Harrow, 451; the Carlow, 1

College, the new engineering, 435
Combination of air and steam, the, 134
Combined clinometer and spirit level, 476
Commercial aspect of invention, the, 55
Commission, river's pollution, 129
Composing and distributing type, 314
Conference of Mechanical Engineers, 119
Construction of steam boilers, Green and Son's improved,
387; of ships, Wilkins' improvements in the, 314; of
railways, improvements in the, 146
Continental ironworkers, English and, 389
Contracts, 200

Contrasts in railway making and working, 405
Cooke's improved rotary pump and water pressure en-
gine, 171

Cooking apparatus, Captain Warren's, 353

Copper and brass, on the electro-deposition of, 282; py-
rites, improvements in treating, 474
Cottages for miners and agricultural labourers, improved,
161; homes, Mr. Carlyle, on, 237

CORRESPONDENCE:-

Aerial navigation, Thomas Moy, 427
Aeronautical science, on, R. S. Steward, 13; Walter F.
Clare, 32

Arms of defence for modern armies, Gustav Julius
Gunther, 266

Balloon capacity, B. R. K., 302

Ballooning, Thomas Livesay, 427

"Captain," the loss of the, a Constant Reader, 337; Ob-
server, 266; Practical, 373, 284; Thoughtful, 283; Ve-
ritas, 355

Cast-iron battery, new, James Howard, 409
Chloralum in a bath for invalids, James Howard, 409
Coal supply and colliery waste, George Ryland, 157
Cottages for miners, improved, J.M., 194
Double-furrow ploughs, W. Woofe, 140

Electro-dynamic law, new, H. Highton, M.A., 337
Electro-plating battery, James Howard, 337
Howard's galvanic battery, James Howard, 257
Irish Mail, the accident to the, H. J. S., 266
Kinzler and Keppler's propellers, J. B. Mansfield, 284
London Institution, the, a Mechanical Engineer, 392; a
Proprietor, 319; Another Proprietor, 337; Josepu
Newton, 355; Marcus Sharpe, 337

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