Anderson's, Sir James, steam carriage, 8,
64, 80, 182, 207, 216, 263, 304, 383
Angler's, gut lines, manufacture of, 41, 54
Anti-dry-rot process, Kyan's 336.
Apples, mashing and steaming, Dimm's
machine for, 379

Archimedes steam vessel, 63
Architects Manual, Davy's, 60
Arkwrights, wealth of the, 209

Armstrong's improved water-wheel, 202
Arnott's, Dr., stove, 259, 304.
Arsenic, poisoning by, 95
Artesian wells, metropolitan, 224, Paris 272
Artificial foundations, Davy's Treatise on, 60
Artizan's, intellectual tastes in, 10
Asphaltes, experiments on various, 48
Asphaltum-pavements, 96, 229, 236, 302
Astronomical tables, Utting's, 83, 102
Atmosphere, distribution of the, 171

resistance of the, to railway
speed, 244, 266, 297, 300, 301, 362
equilibrium of the, Brayley's

lecture on, 447
Atmospheric engine, Savery's, experiments
with, 284

Aurora borealis in November 1838, 307
Australian museum, 95
Austrian "Lloyd's," 112

government, discouragement of

science by the, 47

Axletrees, of carriages, &c., Durkee s patent,
381

B.

Baddeley, Mr. William; on various fire-
escapes, 2, 43; on locomotive engines
with toothed gear, 30; on English and
French fire engineering, &c., 41; on Sir
J. Robison's mountain barometer, 51;
on the proper source of food for man, 67,
131; on plans for the destruction of
smoke, &c., 69; on propellers for steam

vessels, 82; on Penny's improved cannon,
114; ancient fire engines-hand squirts,
&c., 115; on Pistrucci's improved sculp-
tor's banker, 129; Mrs. Smith's smoke
consuming stove, 133; on the use of Har-
per and Joyce's patent charcoal and stoves,
186; Coles's anti-friction wheel carriages,
230; French fire-escape ladders, 248;
mode of reading off the gas meter, 250;
report of London fires in 1838, 306, 450;
portable dam or cistern, 318; break joint
for fire ladders, 397; supply of water to
the metropolis, 423

Badnall's undulating railway, 245
Ball-valves, Crockford's, 281

Ballot, Juckes's mode of voting by, 168
Bands, machine, improved mode of connect-
ing, 291

Banker for sculptors, Pistrucci's improved,

129

Barometer, mountain, Sir John Robison's,
51

Barometers, public, proposal of, 30, 52
Barron's patent locks, 70

Bathing, benefits of, 242

Battle-gunpowder, analysis of, 334
Bayley, Mr. George, on steam navigation to
India 53; on the steam navigation of
America and construction of steam
vessels, 213.

Beale's, Mr. J., air and vapour lamp, 399,
416; improved caoutchouc, 427

Beck's mode of lighting gas lamps by elec-
tricity, 407

Bell's, smoke consuming plan, 106
Berndson's, improved pump bucket, 56
Berzelius, experiments of, on heat, &c.,

295

Bird, Dr. Golding, on Harper and Joyce's
stove, 147

Bitumens. See Asphaltum.

Black ink, manufacture of, 303

Blasting rocks, premiums for experiments
in, 46

Blocking boots, French mode of, 218
Blood painting, Sir J. Robison on, 480
Birch's prize drawing of Huddart's rope
machinery, 333

Blooms of iron, manufacturing, 469
Blue-dye, new, 288

Boats, caoutchouc life, 151
Boiler. See Steam Boiler.
Boilers, salt, mode of cleansing, 94
Bones, exportation of, Russian, 159
Bookbinding, descriptions of, various modes
of, 108