India, steam navigation to, 276, 304, 345, 447, 488
India-rubber balloons, 419. See Caoutchouc. Ink, discharging, from paper, 224 Insurance companys, conduct of, with re- spect to the prevention of fire, 18, 157, 179, 182, 217, 227, 261, 263, 288, 303 marine, evils of, 192
Interest, question in, 399; solution, 474 Iron, manufacture of, 316
peculiar voltaic condition of, 482 snuff-boxes, Berlin, 486
wheels, wrought, Jones's patent, 49 and wood, strength of, 34 Islington Cattle Market, 239, 400 Ivory, Cheverton's, sculptures in, 154 K.
Keraphonite, Mr. Curtis's, 288
Kite, electrical, first experiments with, 202 Kleuze, Baron Von, evidence of, on state of
arts, &c. in Bavaria, 165
Kyanized timber for railway blocks, 258, 377
Locomotive engines, report of Lord's Com- mittee on danger of, in narrow streets, 172 Locomotive apparatus, Wood's, 225 London fires in 1836, 354
University, charter of, 240 Lyons. schools of art at, 128
Mac Adam, Mr., death of, 192; monument to, 384
Macculloch's Statistics of the British Em- pire, 429, 466
Maceroni, Col., outlines of another electrical
theory, 19, 40, 108, 434, 503; alarum rockets, 66; safety powder magazine, 367; lightning conductors, 367; miscellaneous notices, 369; production of life by gal- vanism, 441; cultivation of filberts, 448 Mackinnon's, Mr., patent law bill, 448, 461; remarks on, 487
Mackintosh's, Mr. T. S., electrical theory
of the universe, 9, 19, 32, 47, 62, 95, 99, 104, 111, 118, 148, 215, 221, 281, 346, 351, 366, 399, 405, 473, 494, 500; per- petual motion, 149, 192, 282, 315, 351, 366, 399, 441; on proper and improper philosophical terms, 208; on aerial navi- gation, 428
Magicians, Egyptian, 388
Magnetism. See Electricity. Manifold writers, 62, 101, 186 "Manuel de Tourneurs," 335
Manufactures, report of Commons' Com- mittee on application of the fine arts to, 120; remarks on, 187, 242, 323
Mechanics, English, 508
Almanac, for 1837, 170 - Institute, French, 272
--, London, 272, 480 institutions, effect of, on arts
and manufactures, 122
- Magazine, beneficial effect of, on British manufactures, 123 Medallic engraving by machinery, 2; evi- dence before Commons' Committee on, of Mr. Charles Tilt, 332; Sir F. Chantrey, 333; Mr. E. Hawkins, 333; Mr. V. Nolte, 334, 339; Mr. Wyon, 335; Mr. Brockedon, 336; Mr. Doubleday, 339; Mr. Henning, 339; Mr. Bate, 339; Mr. R. Faraday, 340; Mr. Pistrucci, 340; Mr. J. Wilson, 340; remarks on, 475; French piracy of Mr. Henning's works, 340, 402
Medallic engraving, comparative excellence
of English and French, 475 Mercury steam gauge, inefficacy of, 231, 233 Merryweather's fire-escapes, 363, 449 Metals, highly heated, production of steam by, 306, 495, 510
Metropolitan improvements, 224, 240, 245, 416, 468
Microscope, Pritchard's oxy-hydrogen gas, illumination of, 498; delicate adjustment for, 500; candle and lamp-stand for, 500 Millward, Mr. J., evidence of, on arts of design, 137
Miners, institute for disabled, 272
Miner's mirror, Gretton's, 368
Mines, school of, 512
"Mise en carte," 121, 129, 243
Modellers, knowledge of art amongst, 135, 152
Moon, light of the, 23
Morant, Mr. G. J., evidence of, on arts and design, 152
Mortar, Algerine, 240
Morticing machine, Page's, 385
Motion, laws and sources of, 22, 32, 47, 99, 119
Mulberry for feeding silk-worms, 25 Mummies in the British Museum, 160, 223 Museum, Sir John Soane's, 381
See British Museum.
Music, teaching, by slide rule, 58 Musical mechanism, hints on, 284 N.
National Gallery, 126, 187, 189, 396, 458, 464, 480
Nasmyth, Mr. J., evidence on arts of de- sign, 141
Newspapers, collection of, in the British Museum, 160, 223
Niagara, tunnel under the, 46
Nolte, Mr. Vincent, evidence of, on medallic engraving, 334, 339; reply to Mr. Hen- ning's charge of piracy, 402
Or-molu, patterns of, work, 136 Organs, mechanism of, 284 Oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes, 498 P.
Paddle-weeel experiment, 95 Page's morticing machine, 385 Paper, duty on, effect of, 125, 153 --, discharging ink from, 224 removing stains from, 352
Paper-hanging, 151, 153
Paris, Dr., report of, on Primrose Hill Tun- nel, 446
Patent law act, new American, 194; remarks on, 491
Patent law, English, Mackinnon's bill to amend the, 448, 461; remarks on, 487 Patent Office, destruction of the American, 320
Patents, lists of English, 63, 159, 254, 319, 415, 510
of or-molu, &c. work, 136 Paulin's, M., smoke-proof dress, 272, 373 Payne, Roger, the bookbinder, 160 Perkins', Mr., steam experiments, 246 Perpetual motion, 32, 149, 192, 282, 315, 351, 366, 399, 441
Periods of the ancient astronomers, length of, 111, 215
Philbrick's apparatus for drying cotton, 193 Phillips, Sir R., account of Mr. Crosse's galvanic apparatus, 13
Phillips, Richard, Esq., report of, on Prim- rose Hill Tunnel, 446
Philosophical terms, on proper and impro- per, 208
Physics, Exley's new theory of, 51, 90, 268 Picture gallery, requisites of a good, 167 Spanish, 464
lotteries, German 243, Pictures, destruction of, by insects, 127, 189 Pinkus's pneumatic railway, 301 Pine, Mr. T., on the first excitement and germination of plants, &c., 102; on vege- tation under the influence of vapour, 278; on the source of electricity, and its action on plants in their maturing process, 436 Pistrucci, Mr. B., evidence of, on medallic engraving, 340
Plants, preserving, while on ship-board, 95 exitement and germination of, 102 growth of, under the influence of vapour, 278
Railways, Stone, Gordon's, 281
Rain, proportion of drainage to fall of, 220 Rastrick, J. U. Esq. C. E., evidence on danger of, railway locomotives in streets, 176
Raub's steam gauge, 191
Reading Rooms of British Museum and Bi- bliotheque de Roi, 294
Records of General Science, Dr. Thomson's, 347
Rennie, G. Esq. C. E., evidence of, on danger of railway locomotives in streets, 172
Richman, Professor, fatal electrical experi- ment of, 204
Ricketts' gas stoves, 287, 288
Rifle, Cochran's many chambered, 412 Right line, on a definite, applicable in all countries, 237, 267
Rockets, alarum, 16, 44, 66
Roofs, Witty's patent, 38
Rose engine chuck, Heineken's, 200
Royal Academy, effect of, on British art,
adhesion of, 233
recommended by Committee of
the Franklin Institute 233, 235
foaming of, 371
Sarcophagus, Belzoni's, 382
Sash suspender Cowell's patent, 481
Sass, Mr. H., evidence of, on arts of de- sign, 138
Saxton's medallic engraving machine, 3 Scagliola, designs in, 153
Schools of art, 122, 128, 131
Scientific memoirs, Taylor's, 349
Sculpturing by machinery, 154
Seraphine tongues, making, 284
Sesostris, colossal statue of, 400
Shakspeare, proposal for a colossal statue of, 96
Shawl patterns, taste in, 121, 326 Shrinkage of metal in casting, 340 Sievier, Mr., patents for caoutchouc fabrics, 282, 397, 510
Silk raw, analysis of, 45
Sofa bedstead, expanding, 314
Solar phenomenon in Upper Canada, 9 Sound, experiments on transmission of, 274 phenomena of, 434
Spanish picture gallery, 464 Spark arresters, for railway locomotives, 83 Stephenson's, 175, 181; Blunt's, 175; Gray's, 375. See also 71, 75, 82, 172 Specula, on casting and grinding, 218, 265, 280
Spencer's, Asa, medallic engraving machine, 3 Spontaneous combustion, 464 Spots on the sun, 464
Springs locomotive power from, 512 Stage coaches, expense of working, 79 weight of, 79, 86
Statistics of the British Empire, 429, 466 Steam, production of by highly heated me- tals, 306, 495, 510
-generation of, from coloured water, 495 Steam-boiler Explosions, General Report of Committee of Franklin Institute upon, 229
general circumstances attending, 230 legislative and other preventives, 231 from undue pressure in boiler, 231 inefficiency of safety-valve and mercury guage, 231
instances of explosion from neglect, &c. of engineer, 232
safety-valve, for high pressure boilers, 233, 235
adhesion of the safety-valve, 233 shape and dimensions of valve, 233 fusible plugs, &c., 234
high pressure steam guage, 235 thermometer for steam gauge, 235 proposed preventive means, 235 regulations as to safety-valve, 235 prohibition of steam-boats racing, 236 from unduly heated metal in boiler, 246 Mr. Perkins's experiments, 246
from boiler becoming red-hot, and want of
Steam boiler, Colliers, 161, 238, 288, 400 Smart's, 479
Steam Carriage, Gurney's, 69, 74,81, 87, 320 Hancock's, 69, 71, 76, 80,
, Maceroni and Squire's, 69,88 Maudslay and Field's, 74, 88 Maceroni's, 67
Ogle's, 76, 88,
Sir C. Dance's, 78, 86, Russel's, 85, 87
Burstall and Hill's, 232 Steam carriages, common road, evidence before Lords' Committee on bill to im- pose tolls on, of Mr. Gurney, 69; Mr. Hancock, 71; Mr. Joshua Field, 74; Mr. B. W. Horne, 79; Mr. Geo. Stephenson, C. E., 80; Mr. Alex. Gordon, C. E., 85; Rev. Mr. Williams, 87; Mr. W. Cubitt, C. E., 88; Mr. J. Braithwaite, C. E., 89. comparison of railway and
weight of, 73, 86 Steam Carriages, Railway, Report of Lords' Committee on danger of, in narrow-streets, 172; evidence of G. Rennie, C. E., 172; Dr. Lardner, 173; John Walker, 175; R. Stephenson, C. E., 175; C. J. Blunt, C. E., 175; J. U. Rastrick, C. E., 176; G. Stephenson, C. E., 181; J. Walker, C. E., 182; H. Earle, 182 Steam engine work, Cornish, 31, 110 frame-work, ornamental, 140,
on the Thames, 480 Steam vessels, French Medeterranean Com- pany, 95 -, prevention of, racing, 236 Stephenson, Geo, Esq., C. E., evidence on steam carriages' tolls bill, 80; evidence on the danger of railway locomotives in norrow streets, 181 Stephenson, Robert Esq., C. E., evidence of, on danger of railway locomotives in in streets, 175
Stereotypes of wood engravings, exportation of, 188
Still, chemical, Watson's copper, 504 Stifling cloth for preventing fires, 360 Stothard, Mr. R. T., evidence on arts of design, 140
Streets, danger of locomotives in narrow, 173 proposed new, in London, 468
Sugar, beet-root, 96,
from Chestnuts, 320
nington's and Howard's systems of con- densation, 15, 60, 119, 150, 219
Tailors' work table, improved, 147, 343, 509 Tally-man, Hutchison's mechanical, 145 Tanks for water, cheap, 46 Tartrovinic acid, 349
Tasso's "Gieruselemme Liberata," MS. of, 383
Taste, public, 121, 128, 140, 152 Temperature of boilers, ascertaining, 374 Terms, philosophical, on proper and im proper, 208
Terra-cotta works, English, 153 Thames steam navigation, 480
Thames Tunnel, progress of the, 97, 480 Thatching, improved mode of, 96
Thermometer, use of, in steam boilers, 235, 374
Thorne, Mr. Joshua, geological arguments in favour of Mackintosh's theory, 405, 494
Thorold's timber railway, and saddle rail, 329
Thrashing machine, first, 171 Tides, nature of, 44, 109
Tiles, for draining, 16
Tilt, Mr. C. evidence on medal engraving, 332
Timber railways, American, C8
Vignoles's, 257, 300 Curtis's, 288
self-regulating apparatus for feeding boiler with, 372
decomposition of, 452
evaporation of coloured, 495
Water and gas galve, Hutchison's, 66 Water-wheel governor, improved, 169 Watson, Dr. Report of, on Primrose Hill Tunnel, 446
Watson's, Mr. H. improved chemical still, 504
Watt's steam engine, account of working by 31
Weather predictions, 287, 415
Webbing, Sievier's caoutchouc, 283 Wedgewood, Mr. Josiah, notice of, 170; in-
ventions of, in the earthenware manufac- ture, 432
Wellington, Duke of, civic statue of, 400 West's patent force backs, 305
Wheels, Jones's, patent railway carriage, 49 Williams, Rev. Mr., evidence on Steam Carriages Tolls Bill, 87
Wilson, Mr. J., evidence of, on medallic engraving, 340
Window cleaner and fire escape, Gregory, 10 cleaning, danger in, 482
tax, evil effect of, on architecture,
124 Witty's patent lamellar beams, and segmen- tal trusses, 33
Wood's, Mr. H. W., improved locomotive apparatus, 225
Wood's, Alderman, proposed metropolitan improvements, 468
Wood, durability of, 250
strength of, 34
Woods analysis of, 272
Wool, employment of grease obtained in washing, 224
Woollgar, J. W. Esq., on the apparent paths of Mars and Jupiter, 206
Wyon, W. Esq., evidence on medallic en- graving, 335
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