THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, SCIENTIFIC AND RAILWAY GAZETTE. VOLUME VIII.-1845. LONDON: R. GROOMBRIDGE & SONS, 5, PATERNOSTER ROW; J. WEALE, 59, HIGH HOLBORN; WILEY & PUTNAM, NEW YORK; GALIGNANI, PARIS. INDEX. ABRAHAM, H. R. improvements of Ansted's Geology, as a branch of Artificial stone, Ransome's patent, ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Paris, 348 ROYAL, OF ARTS, 27 ings at, 165 Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh, 351 Accidents on the Eastern Counties railway, 293 count of improvements on navigation of the Clyde, by Wm. Bald, 234 the town and harbour of Pulteney town, by James BremDer, 20 Achromatic telescopes, by Mizar, 81 Action of silt and shingle, 309 Acts (railway) obtained in session 1845, 290 Adoption of Greenwich time throughout the kingdom, 255 Aerial navigation, McSweeny's essay on (review), 92 Africa, desert of, 100 Agricultural machine, Vibart's pa. tent, 120 Agriculture, the products of coal gas applied to, 174 Air and steam, mechanical properties of, 233, 294 properties of, as a mechanical agent, 205 pump, or water engine, improved, by R. Ferrier, 157 Aix-la-Chappele, church of Notre Dame, 81 Alabaster mines of Castellina, by W. Alarum for fire damp, 80 Alleghany river, bridge across, 195 ways, 360 (important) of rail Amalgamation on leasing of railways, 364 Amsterdam and Rotterdam railway, by P. W. Conrad, 74 Ancholme, works commenced at, 1842, 350 drainage of, by Sir John Rennie, 349 draw door, for regulating navigation level, 350 lock-gates at, 350 Aucient church, fall of, 163 and modern architecture, by M. Jules Gailhabaud (review), 58 fresco in East Wickham church, 32 pictures, causes of permanence in, 39 Anderson's patent soap, 225 Anglo-Saxon masonry, notes on, by T. G. Waller, 301 Animal substances, petrifying of, 131 Annular scupper-mouth for ships' decks, 122 education (review), 237 340 Arches, oblique, elliptical, by Jas. Morice, 277 Archimedean (spiral) railway, Farrell's patent ARCHITECTS, (BRITISH), ROYAL INSTITUTE OF, 27, 88, 125, 157, 193, 231, 263, 359 Architectural drawing, handmaid to the study of ecclesiology, 88 Royal Academy, 165, 213 glossaries, by P. Hill, 72 novelty, 140 SOCIETY of Oxford, works, employment of military engineers on, by Zophorus, 41 Architecture, ancient and modern, by M. Jules Garlhabaud (review), 124 58 of France in the reign of Louis XIII, 302 (domestic) of France in the middle ages, 88 (Gothic), English and foreign compared, by Sir John Audley, 355 of Guernsey, 344 history of, by T. L. Do naldson, 57, 67 in Ireland, by PhiloHibernicus, 130, 217 and geology in Ireland, by G. Wilkinson, 92, 144 292 in Manchester, 129, 158, a new order of, by H. Wilson, 68 and architectural description, Hope's, by Lector, 136, 221 Architecture (classical), decadence Arsenical green, 163 125 Artificial fuel, Hill's patent, 358 169 Artizan club, on the mechanical theory of steam, 206 steam engine by, (re view), 60 Arts and manufactures of France, 156 ROYAL ACADEMY OF, 27 SOCIETY OF, 63, 122, 124 ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF, 19, 86, 124, 156, 192, 231 Arun river, drawbridge over it, 269 Ashley cutting, on the Great Western railway, land-slip on, by J. G. Thomson, 23 Asphalted brickwork, 356 Assize Courts at Liverpool, 376 Aston viaduct, fall of, 296 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, junction of, by Wm. Vickers, 191 Atmosphere of Barbadoes, trade winds in the, 86 Atmospheric engine, Parsey's patent, 298 railway, abstract of evi dence, 314, 339 Bald's memoir on the navigation of the Clyde and Seine, 234, 236 Baillie's patent glass ventilation, 224 Ballee Khal suspension bridge, fall of, 304 Banks of earth, resistance required to sustain them, 359, 242 Barbadoes, trade winds in atmosphere of, 86 Bardwell, on the improvements of Westminster, 111 Barker's mill, experiments on,by Jas. Whitelaw, 156 Barlow's, Professor, experiments on rope traction and atmospheric railways, 322 Barret, on the harbours of refuge, 135 Bars of cast-iron, strength of, 154 remarks on Dredge's suspension bridge, 249, 313 Battersea, new park at, 391 Bazaar, the anti-corn-law, 192, 220 Beam and direct action engines, comparative loss of, by Mr. Pole, 101 and direct action engines, friction in, by M. Cowie, 190 Beart's patent boring apparatus, 56 Bedington's patent for smoke combustion, 119 Bell, a monster, 131 Beroan's history of warming and ventilating, 92 Bessemer's patent gold paint, 55 Bewley's patent door and window fastenings, 171 Bidder's objections to keeping the same time at different places, 256 Billings, on the geometric tracery of Brancepath church (review), 179 Birkenhead, rise and progress of, 257 Birmingham, monument to Mr. Rickman at, 391 Blackfriars' pier, 221 Blast engine, immense, 161 Blowing up of a shoal in the Thames, 268 Blythe's river navigation, 326 superiority of, 268 299 Boring apparatus, Beart's patent, 56 |