-

A.

Accidents in mines, Report of the House of
Commons on, 245. See Mines.
Select Committee of the
House of Commons on,- Evidence of Mr.
J. J. Wilkinson, 264; Mr. N. Wood,
265, 283, 298, 314, 316; Dr. Clanny,
299, 343; Mr. G. Johnson, 315; Mr. G.
Stephenson, C. F., 316, 336; Mr. G. Up-
ton, 319, 327; Mr. John Buddle, 329,
505; Mr. Pereira, 336; Mr. Dillon, 344;
Mr. Murray, 345; Mr. G. Gurney, 405;
Mr. Taylor, 412

Achilles' shield, by Flaxman, 151
Aerial ships, practicability of directing, 55
navigation by birds, 57, 200
Aerometer, Hutchison's patent, 417
Air, importance of pure, 64

rate of travelling in mines, 28+

forcing through tubes to a distance, 285
Air-pump, Mr. Jordan's, 85

for ventilating mines, 284
Airy, appointment of Professor, 255
Alloys, list of, used in the arts, 216
Almanacs for 1836, 237, 253

American steam-navigation, Notes of a Tra-

veller on, 44, 76, 115, 257

Animal matter, preservation of, 496
Arabesque ornaments, 128, 148

Arcade, river, Hungerford and Lambeth, 193
Architecture, modern, 26, 127

--, street, improvement of, 141
Arsenic, prevention of poisoning by, 125
Artists, eminent, connected with British ma-
nufactures, 106, 108, 110, 151, 175, 182,
204

"> Norwich Society of, 181
Arts and Manufactures, Select Committee of
the House of Commons on-Evidence of
Mr. J. J. Smith, 105; Mr. John Martin,
108; J. Morrison, Esq., M. P., 126, 138;
Mr. Thomas James, 143; Mr. T. F.
Gibson, 144; Mr. R. Harrison, 145; Mr.
George Eld, 146; Mr. R. Butt, 147; Mr.
C. H. Smith, 150; Mr. George Foggo,
151; Mr. S. Wiley, 154; M. Claude
Guillotte, 155; Mr. John Henning, 158,
160; Mr. G. Rennie, 171; Mr. Crabbe,
172; Mr. Skene, 175; Mr. Papworth,
180; Mr. Barnes, 181; Mr. Cockerell,
182; M. Bogaerts, 184; Mr. Toplis, 184,
397; Mr. J. C. Robertson, 185, 201;
Mr. Wyon, 203

Arts, Society for the Encouragement of, in
Scotland, 175

Athenæum frieze, 94, 158

Atlantic, suggestions on the navigation of, by
steam, 258

Atmospheric-engine, new,

408

Austen's steam-engine, performances of, 197,

207
Automaton, speaking, 112

Avery's rotary-engine, 49, 104, 432
Axle-boxes, Hynes's patent, 161
Ayres' safety-lamp, 248, 287

B.

Bacon, Lord, Mr. Martin's Life and Cha-
racter of, 370

Baddeley, Mr. W., on water as a prime-
mover, 25; Merryweather's improved fire-
engine, 226; on the use of zinc gutters,
251; report of London fires in 1835, 353
Ballingall, Captain, on the ship-sinking
system, 82, 105

Balloon ascent, perilous, 42

for releasing whalers from ice, 251
Balloons, caoutchouc, 436

" on guiding, 55, 200

Bamboo cane, cultivation of, 16

Barlow's, Professor, second report on rail-
ways, 366

Barnes's standing-press, 113

Barometer, use of the, to indicate gas in
mines, 317

new self-registering, 408

Barton's new safety boiler, 224

Beds, new material for stuffing, 324
Beet-root, sugar from, 512

Bell-rock lighthouse, 208

Bells, alloy for, 217

Bergin's patent railway buffing-apparatus, 1
Berlin schools of desigr, 138
iron-works, 148

Billon, alloy for, 216

Birds, aerial navigation by, 57, 200
Birmingham Society of Arts, 203

—, gun manufacture of, 464
Blasting mines, danger attending, 303, 336
Taylor's improved mode of,

412
Blowers in coal-mines, 302,315,316, 329, 336
Boat, fishing, improved, 222

- Cow's caoutchouc, 442
Bobbin-net lace machinery, Croft's patent
improvements in, 348, 377

Bog-roads, on the construction of, 30, 204
Boiler. See Steam-engine.

Boiling water, alloy fusible in, 217
Bone-crushing machine, 351

Booth's, Mr. D., safety method of lighting
coal mines, 392

Boxes, axle, Hynes's patent, 161
Bramah, Mr. Joseph, memoir of, 254
Brande's, Professor, experiments with caout-
chouc, 472

Brass, alloys for, 217

solder for, 218

Breakwater, Portland, 112

Bricks, evil effects of duty on, 184

superiority of machine-made, 542
Brick-paving, remarks on, 261
Bridge, Sunderland, 28

from Dover to Calais, Smeaton's, 28
London, 28

Danube, navigation of the, 95

David's, St., cathedral, restoration of, 28
Davy, Mr. C., on fire-proof buildings, 22, 74
Davy's, Sir H., safety-lamp, 246, 265, 287,
298, 319, 327, 332, 336, 338, 345, 393,
500

analysis of fire-damp. 341
Deakin, Mr. Thomas, on the Thames Tunnel,
131; on the long-work system of mining,
505

Deflectometers, Professor Barlow's, 367
Dickson's self-feeding and smoke-consuming
furnace, 215

Dillon's safety-lamp, 248, 344, 346
Dipping-needle, Fox's experiments on the, 86
Distilling, Capt. Embree's method of em-
ploying escape-steam for. 456
Diving apparatus, Condert's, 65
dresses, caoutchouc, 442

Douglas's safety-lamp, 248

Drawing, necessity of instructing artisans
in, 109, 160, 177, 185

Dresden china, French imitation of, 147

E.

Eagles, for the traction of balloons, 200
Electrical theory of the universe, Mäckin-
tosh's, 11, 227, 292, 350, 461, 419

364, 416

Nickoll's patent steam, 386
establishment, London, 353,

Fire-proof buildings, 22, 74

Fires, London, in 1835, 353
Fish, drowning a, 16
fecundity of, 16

improved mode of catching, 223
new mode of stuffing, 263

Flax, spinning, 112

Flints, soap from, 487

Flooring, double under, Lord Stanhope's
method of, 22

Foley family, origin of the, 288

Fossil remains, Mr. Hawkins's, 452, 526
French and English manufactures, 109, 112,
126, 138, 155, 158, 171, 176, 186, 205
Fribourg suspension-bridge, 160
Furnace. self-feeding and smoke-burning,
129, 215

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calculation of power of, to ventilate
mines, 283

Gas-lighting, invention of, 59

projects, Matthews's, 445
for shipping, 512

valves, water, 73, 137, 311, 408

Gasometer, Hutchison's double-lifting, 321,
380, 413, 443, 455, 495

Gentleman's Diary for 1836, 239

Geology, Mackintosh's electrical theory of
the universe confirmed by, 419
George IV., architectural taste of, 27
Ginger, application of, to tanning, 324
Glass, soluble, on the manufacture of, 515
Glass-painting, 110

Globes, caoutchouc, 437
Gloves, caoutchouc, 436

Gold, French manufactures in, 147
coins and medals, alloys for, 216
solder for, 218
amalgams of, 218

-, extensibility of, 416

Gongs, alloy for, 217

Grates, manufacture of, 106

Gray's railway scheme, 134, 159

golden rules, 527

Hevea, or caoutchouc tree, account of, 437,
510, 531

Hicks's gas-cooking apparatus, 13, 80, 122
Highgate archway tunnel, 28

Hoare's mode of cultivating the vine, 10, 135
Hosking's portable punching-press, 513
Hot-air blast, Dr. Clarke on the application
of, in the manufacture of cast-iron, 211
Hot-water heating system, danger of, 458
Hungerford and Lambeth foot-passenger
bridge, 193

Hunter's stone-planing machine, 33, 202,
208
"Huntsman" American steam-vessel, 116,

257

Hutchison's patent portable lever, 273;
double-lifting gasometer, 322, 380, 413,
443, 455, 495; patent aerometer, 417

Locking carriage wheels, apparatus for, 162
Locomotion. See Railnays.

Log, simple mariner's, 30
London-fires in 1935, 354
London Wall, old, 128

Long-work system of mining, 502
Longitude, discovery of the, 512

Losh's patent improvements in calico print-
ing, 346

Louis Quatorze style of decoration, 142,
180, 203

Louvre, study of the arts in the, 185

M.
Maceroni, Colonel, on slate railway-plat-
forms, 166, 220; on coal-tar as a pre-
servative of stone, &c., 220; on the state
of the art of design in England-taxi-
dermy and travertino. 262; hints on har-
dening stone, &c., and on the preservation
of panoramas, 309

Macintosh's patent caoutchouc manufacture,
439. See Caoutchouc.

Mackintosh's, Mr. T. S., electrical theory of
the universe, 11, 227, 292, 350, 416, 419;
on English and foreign workmen, 205;
on the practicability of guiding air-bal-
loons, 60

Macropona, the, 112
Magic-lantern, Jones's, 113
Magnetic influence, 86
Mails, improvement in, 285
Manufactures. See Arts and Manufac
tures.

, Society for the Encourage-

ment of, in Scotland, 175

Marble, preservation of, 94

Marine insurance, evil effects of, S2, 105, 252

Mariner's compass, variation of, 87

Martin's safety-lamp, 248, 401

-Mr.T., Life, &c. of Lord Bacon, 370

Masts, sheer, 497

Matter, new theory of, 227

Matthews's, Mr. W., gas-lighting projects, 445
Mechanics' Almanac, 253

Mechanics' Institution, Coventry, 146
London, 397

Mechanics' Institutions, beneficial effects of,
191

Mechanics' Magazine, beneficial effects of,
on British art, 185

Medals, circulation of classic, 204

caoutchouc, 441

Mercantile navy, British, insecurity of, S
Mercury, amalgams of, 218

Merryweather's improved fire-engine, 225
Meteoric showers, annual, 454

Mincing meat, machine for, 90.

336

carbonic acid gas in, 268, 341
sulphuretted hydrogen in, 269, 341
furnace for ventilation of, 270, 283
rate of travelling of air in, 284
air-pump for ventilating, 284
danger attending the blasting of, 303,

Taylor's new mode of blasting, 412

pillar-working, 314, 335

, gas in, through not being worked, 316

azotic gas in, 316, 341

, explosions of, caused by south wind,
318

cannot be caused by

lightning, 318, 330
-, cannons to extinguish burning gas in,
329

unworkable before, worked by aid of
lamp, 335

, analyses of fire-damps of, 341
-, pure hydrogen in, 342

Booth's safety-method of lighting,
392; Gurney's, 405

long-work system of working, 502

accidents in, at Felling, 264; Tyne
Main, 269; Hartley, 269; Killingworth,
303, 316; Wilmington, 315; Bensham
seam, 315, 329; Springwell, 328, 332;
Wallsend, 328, 329; Lawson, 330

Miners never refuse to work, 268

Natural history, prize essays on, 85
National Gallery, 109, 13S, 141, 151
National Gallery of practical science, 109
Naval architecture, Ballingall's system of,
82, 105

Needle, useless in iron boats, 48

Neilson's process of manufacturing cast-iron
by the hot-blast, 211

Newman's safety-lamp, 24S

Nickoll's patent railway condensing locomo-
tive, 385

Northumberland House, decoration of, 182
Nottingham hydraulic gas-valve, 137
Novum Organum, Bacon's, 372
Nutation, theory of, 395

Nye's patent improvements in pumps, &c.,
347

Or-molu, French designs in, 147

Oxygen-gas, discovery of, 254

Pattern drawing, 106, 144, 145, 177, 181
Patterns, French, 127, 143, 144, 156, 176
piracy of, 106, 111, 139, 143, 144,

149, 172, 183

Paving, street, 23, 74, 128, 274

wooden, 48

brick, 261

Pendulum sights for ships' guns, 17

Pereira, Mr., evidence of, and experiments
by, on safety-lamps, 336
Percussion-lock, improved, 90

Perkins's steam boiler, 387, 459

Philipians, materials for a new epistle to
the, 312; postscript to, 514

Piano-fortes, Erard's patent for, extension of,
239

Pilchard, natural history of, 85