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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.

THA NEW

PUBLIC LIEWARY

ACTOR, LSX AND
TILOEN FOUNDATIONS

INDEX.

ABRAHAM, H. R. improvements of Ansted's Geology, as a branch of Artificial stone, Ransome's patent,
Westminster, 6

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Paris, 348

ROYAL, OF ARTS, 27
Royal, architectural draw-

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.
Hamilton, 287

Alarum for fire damp, 80
Alecto and Rattler steam ships, 163
Algiers, rain in, 151

Alleghany river, bridge across, 195
Alloys of metals, Fenton's patent,37
Parkes's patent, 264
Altars, history of, 88
Amalgamation and leasing of rail-
ways, 317

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
new bridge at, 350
history of, 349

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
Lectures on, 254
Anti-Corn-Law bazaar, 192, 220
Antiquarian discoveries at Lewes, 375
Antiquities, Roman, 391
Anti-Zoilus on the fountains in
Trafalgar-square, 190
Apollo Belvedere, 267
Apology, de Winterton's, respecting
Sir Joshua Reynolds's Diary, 4
Apparatus for dressing ores, Brun-
ton's patent, 171
Application of colour to the internal
decoration of ecclesiastical build-
ings, by Mr. Patterson, 124
Application of power on the atmos-
pheric and locomotive systems,

340

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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
of, 366

Arsenical green, 163
ART, (DECORATIVE), SOCIETY OF, 88,

125

Artificial fuel, Hill's patent, 358
Ransome's patent, 386

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

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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
Bartholomew's metropolitan building
act (review), 93
Basevi, George, death of, 348
Bashforth, on drainage cills, 277

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
Berlin, royal palace at, 196
frescoes at, 96

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
Blasting rocks, Marif's patent, 385
Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy, &c. (re-
Aiew), 276

Blowing up of a shoal in the Thames,

268

Blythe's river navigation, 326
Boilers, prevention of incrustation
in, Matteen's patent, 172
proportions of, by A. Mur-
ray, 217
Ritterbandt's patent, for
preventing incrustation, 226
tubular, causes of explo-
sion, 112
of the Tagus and
Braganza steam ships, 162

superiority of, 268
Bombay, railway to the Ghauts, 127
Booksellers' provident retreat, 333
Boracic acid works, Monti-Cerboli,

299

Boring apparatus, Beart's patent, 56
Bourdon's expansive gearing, 57
Bowman, on the properties of water
and other fluids (review), 182
Boyer's steam valve, 162

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