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Anthracite, 293, 434

Antis's improved chimneys, 157
Apple in India, 143

"Arcana of Science for 1834," 218

Architects, British, Institution of, 224, 255,
349

Arithmetical frames, Martin's, 262
Arsenic, 528

Artesian wells employed to actuate ma-
chinery, 32

Arts, Society of, prizes of, 191

Atlantic and Pacific, canal between, 176,
464

Avery's rotary steam-engine, 94

Aurora borealis, 418

Australian Company, South, 288

Axes, American, manufacture of, 223

B.

Babbage, Mr., and his rivals, 119
Bacon's theory of light, 95
Baddeley, Mr. William, on certain hydrau-

lic phenomena, 6: Stevens's paddle.
wheels, 35; Rodgers's needle threader,
158; bookbinder's lettering-tool, 219;
Tilley's metallic fire-engine, 257: the
aerial ship Eagle, 289; street-paving,
494; on fire-proof buildings, 439; elec-
tro-magnetic moving power, 490
Badnall, Richard, Esq., on the undulating
railway sysiem, 57, 105

Baines's History of the Cotton Manufac-
ture, 282

Baker, tin, 246

Balance, delicate, invented by Mr. Snow
Harris, 417

Balances, lever and spring, 392

Ballingall's, Capt., advice to emigrants, 61
Balloon excursion extraordinary, 223

communication between London

and Paris, 272, 289

Barlow's, Mr., experiments on railway bars
and railways, 76, 96, 225, 380, 393, 448
Barometer, self-registering, 420

Bath hot-wells, 271

Bee-hive, Rev. Charles Dewhurst's, 33
mathematical instinct of the, 271
Bell levers, side, improvement in, 184
Bell Rock light-house, 400

Bergin's, Mr. F. H., buffing-apparatus, 144
Bernhardt's warming and ventilating pro-
cess, 165

Bidder's table for calculating earth-work,
200

Binding, painted, 319

Birmingham Town-hall, 128

Blasting rocks, new mode of, 217
Blood, quantity of iron in the, 96
Blowers, Clark's, 127
Blow-pipe, the, practice of, 22

Boat, sailing and rowing treble, 305
Boats, caoutchouc, 143, 176, 224, 278, 386
Bookbinder's lettering-tool, 219

Boot wearer's assistant, Jeck's, 254
Botanic garden, Loddige's, 186

Brewster, Sir David, and the British Asso-
ciation, 415

Brick-making machines, 160, 248

177, 224

machine, Clark and Co.'s,

Bridge, suspension, Freyburg, 49
British Association, 399, 407

Bronze manufacture, 218

Brougham's (Lord) Patent Law Amend-
ment Bill, 310, 352, 368, 384, 464, 524
Bude light, Mr. Gurney's, 80
Bug-destroyer, steam, 244
Buildings, fire-proof, 397, 492, 499
Bull-fight with a steam-carriage, 223
Butterley Company and hot-air smelting
process, 238, 497

Byerley, Sir John, on oleagine, the new
substitute for olive oil, 60

C.

Cabriolet, new description of, 128

Calculating machines, 32, 48, 119, 241, 317
boy, Russian, 282

Caloric-engine, Ericsson's, 192

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sheathing for ships, 507
boat, 143, 176, 224, 278, 386
manufactories, 400

Carter's paddle-wheel, 353
gas-valve, 465

Catalogue, curious, 144

Catamaran, Cunningham's, 1
Cavé's paddle-wheel, 341
Cement for broken glass, 186
Chaucer a man of science, 287
Chemical laboratory, Ede's, 161
Cheverton, Benjamin, Esq., on Mr. Exley's
new theory of physics, 8, 18, 36, 53;
mechanical sculpture, 420
Children chimney sweepers, 5
Chimneys, Antis's improved, 157
Clark's blowers, 127

Clark and Co.'s brick, acid drop, and lo-
zenge machine, 177, 224

Clegg, Samuel, Esq., and gas lighting, 59
Cloth, drawing on, 64

Clyde Iron-works' hot-air apparatus, 81
Coal-consumers, practical hints to, 7

Welch, 293

Cock, Tyler's shifting gauge, 241
Codnor hot-air smelting furnace, 497
Coffins, caoutchouc, 16, 80

artificial stone, 255

Collier's steam-boiler, 143, 224, 255

Colliers, the poor working, 89, 138, 254

Comet, Halley's, 64, 428, 448, 490, 521
Compass, Pope's, sliding ship's, 33

Cooking by gas, 135, 271, 448, 463
Copper, how to whiten, 185

sheathing, test of, 214

Copernican system denounced by the Vati-
can, 287

Cornwall iron castings, 64

Polytechnic Society, 213

Cotton Manufacture, Baines's History of,

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456, 492, 499; description of a simple
drill, 441; street-paving, 445
Davy, Professor E., on protecting the iron
shackles of buoys from corrosion, 527
Deakin, Mr. Thomas, on the Thames Tun-
nel, 15; on a mode of railway transit
without locomotive-engines, 280

Dean's submarine operations, 270
Dear and bad, 431

Densities of bodies at different depths, 143
Dewhurst's (Rev. Charles) bee-hive, 33
Dipping-needle deflector, Fox's, 97
Disbrow's steam-boiler, 400

Draining by boring, 271

furrow, tile, 383

Drawing on cloth, 64 <
Drill, simple, 441

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Faraday, Professor, on the pneumatic rail-
way, 70

Field, Josh. Esq. C. E., evidence on ma-
rine steam-engines, 249

Fire-establishment, Manchester, 80

establishments in France, 527
engine, ancient, 185

Chandler's, 244

Tilley's new metallic, 257

proof buildings, 397, 456, 492, 499

Fires, London, 399

Fishmongers' Hall, 270

Foundling Hospitals, effects of, 423

Fox's dipping-needle deflector, 97, galvano-
metrical test of copper sheathing, 214
France, railways in, 32, 63

Freyburg suspension bridge, 49, 143
Fulton's orrery, 255
Furnace, bar-iron, 446

G.

Galt, Mr. John, plan of, for superseding
steam-power, 96, 403, 460, 514
Gas-lighting, 59, 160,219

cooking by, 135, 271, 448, 463
metre, Bogardus's, 447
-valve, Carter's, 465
Genius, aphorisms on, 467
Geology, contributions to, 416, 421
Glasgow, steam-engines in, 80
Glass, plate, manufacture, 320

how to drill holes through, 362

Glass-working, 185
Gravesend new pier, 431
Gravitation, Professor Airy on, 300
Gray's railway system, 351

Greenwich Park railway viaduct, 449
Gregorian system of chronology, 24, 146
Grindstones, list of, 267

Gurney's, Mr. Goldsworthy, Bude light, 80;
steam-carriage claims, 183, 302, 320, 367,

395.

H.

Hancock's steam-carriage, 363, 381, 396,
457

Hamilton, Professor, knighted, 416

Hall's steam-engine improvements, 368,459,
464

Hansom, Mr., and Birmingham Town Hall,
128

Harrow, Woodside's, revolving, 238
Hartley's plans for preventing fire, 456
Haydn, a member of the French Institute, 64
Heat, Ode to, 391

theories of, 416

radiation of, 418

Herapath, John, Esq., on railways, 148, 166,
181, 197, 232, 275, 308, 355, 425, 450,
517

VHoare, on the cultivation of the vine, 56, 151
Hone-stones, list of, 267

Hoar's, Mr. W. F., African expedition of
discovery, 75

Horse-shoe-making machine, 445
Hosking's straw-cutting machine, 214
Hot-air smelling process, Neilson and Co.'s,
81, 102, 172, 201, 238, 261, 341, 421,
497

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Labour, effects of, division of, 188
Laird's, Mr. M., evidence on marine steam-
engines, 374

Lardner, Dr., on the pneumatic railway,
67; on graduation of railways, 420; evi-
dence on the Great Western Railway,
474, 509

Lathe, Dakin's, turning, 369
Leaf from and old book, 184
Leather, binding, 467

Life-apparatus, travelling, Cunningham's, l

boat, India-rubber, Lieut. Wall's, 386
Light, Bacon's theory of, 95

Liverpool Mechanics' Institution, 316
Locomotive engines, Baldwin s, 239.

318

English and American

Loddige's botanic garden, 186

London, quantity of rain that falls in, 159

Mechanics' Institution, 144, 319

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Reynolds's rotary steam engine, 95
Roberts's safety-lamp, 254

Rocks, extraordinary upheaving of,367
Rosser, Archibald, Esq., on children chim-
ney sweepers, 5

Royal Exchange, its dilapidated statues and
empty niches, 231

Society gold medals, 399

Royles' Illustrations of the Himalaya Moun-
tains, 143

Railway from Athens to the Piræus, 32

Baltimore to Washington, 528
Birmingham, 5, 144, 255; compe-
tition, 380, 392, 400
Bristol and Gloucestershire, 400
Brighton, 231

Brussels and Mechlin, 128, 400
Dublin and Kingstown, 15, 32
Gravesend, 128, 450

Greenwich, 166, 192, 354, 448,
464, 500

Grand Northern, 52
Grand Irish, 79

Great Western, 431, 474, 509
Liverpool and Manchester, 272,
400

Midland Counties, 144
Newcastle and Carlisle, 288
Sheffield and Rotherham, 367
Stockton and Darlington, 357
Thames river-side, 466

bars, &c., Mr. Barlow's experi-
ments on, 76, 92, 225, 380, 392, 448
bars and pedestals, Daglish's, 225
Woodhouse's,

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Sand-paper, 242

Sausage-meat cutter, 508
Saw, circular, 508

Science, Great Britain the fountain of, 287
Screw, power of the, 320

Screw-cutting machine, Hosking's, 214
Sculpture, mechanical, M'Cheverton's, 420
Searey's and Co's. bookbinders' lettering-ma-
chine, 219

Seaward's, Messrs., plan of steam-commu-
nication with India, 48

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Morgan v., 318, 321
paddle-wheel, 321

Seed-cart, Woodside's, 238
Self-acting machinery, 299
Ship-building, English and French, 176
reform, 265, 288, 443

Ships, scale of the draught of, 287
, caoutchouc sheathing for, 507
Shops, retail, of London and Glasgow,
288

Shoreham harbour, 495

Silver ore, English, 143

Silk, cultivation of, in England, 304
Sink, cast-iron, 244

Smelting with hot-air, 81, 102, 172, 201,
238, 261, 341, 321, 497

Smoke nuisance, 298

Soane, Sir John, donation of, to the Society
of British Architects, 255,

Solar rays. magnetising power of, 96
Soldier's cloak, Captain Dickson's, 254
Somerville, Mrs., pension to, 32
Stage-coaches, ventilation of, 457

Stanhope's, Earl, plans for preventing fire,
456, 492, 499

Steam-boiler, high-pressure, White's plan
for supplying, 17

,

Perkins's, 320

Petherick and West's, 64
Wilcox's, 246

, Collier's, 143, 224, 255
Macerone's, 360

Disbrow's, 400

M'Curdy's, 401

Baldwin's, 507

Clute's, 435

course, bull-fight with, 224

carriages; Macerone's, 27, 64, 404;
Ogle's, 360, 386, 412, 496; Church's,
96, 144; Gurney's, 138, 302, 395; Bald-
win's, 239; Maudsley and Field's, 255,
382; English and American, 318; Han-
cock's, 363, 381, 596

communication with India, 48

engine, Avery's rotary, 94; Rey-
nolds's rotary, 95; Sockle's pendulum,
152; Jordan's whim, 215; Marchand's,
243; Baldwin's rotary, 507; Morris's, 528
improvements, Mr. Hall's,

368, 452, 464

engines in Glasgow, 80

marine, proposed im-

provements in, 91

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