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THE

CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S

JOURNAL,

INCORPORATED WITH

The Architert,

PUBLIC

VOLUME XVII.—1854.

LONDON:

R. GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATERNOSTER ROW; J. WEALE, HIGH HOLBORN; W. ROBERTSON,
DUBLIN; SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH; MATHIAS, PARIS; MUQUARDT, BRUSSELS;

C. MONIER, MADRID; WILEY AND PUTNAM, NEW YORK.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM LAXTON, AT 19, ARUNDEL STREET, STRAND, LONDON.

THE NEW YORK +PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

INDEX TO VOLUME XVII.

1854

Academy, Royal, exhibition, 233
Acoustics and ventilation, Meigs on, 162
Acropolis of Athens, 121

Adams, on railways and permanent way
(rev.) 11

Adams' railway wheel, 311
Adams' street railways, 52
Adie's marine barometer, 394

Air, Cresson on flow of, 400

Air-engine, Ericsson's, 393; Napier's, 394;
Stirling's, 393

Air-engine, Rankine on, 393
Air-jets, Williams on, 365
Air-pump, Hobson's, 225

Air, velocimeter for measuring, 288
Aitken, on metal working and ornamenta-
tion, 138

Aix-la-Chapelle, theatre, 168
Alarms, Brown's, 110

Alcock, on measurement of inaccessible
distances, 168

Alexander's telegraph, 311
Almshouses, St. Pancras, 121
Allan's telegraph, 349

Amalgamating machine, Wright's, 210
America, mints of U. S., 407
American architecture, 305
American crystal palace (rev.) 345
American hill-side ditching, 109

American patents, 37, 75, 110, 154, 226
American patents, report of commissioner,
112, 149, 461

American river and canal navigation, 312
American shot manufacture, 444
American steam frigates, 342
American telegraph lines, 350
Analytical statics, Todhunter (rev.) 134
Andrew's pat. axle, 60; boiler, 60; engine,

60; pump, 60; valve, 60

Angelo's (Michel) sketches at Lille, 2
Annealing ironware, Stuart's, 111
Aqueducts of Constantinople, 84, 167
Arches, Macintosh's, 316

Architecture, Royal Academy exhibition,

233

Architecture, Gothic, Colling (rev.) 381
Architecture, naval, Russell on, 387
Architecture and painting, Ruskin (rev.) 230
Architecture as represented in pictures, 290
Architecture, American, 157, 161
Architecture in Germany, 117

Architecture in Russia, 336

Architectural association, 419

Architectural exhibition, 426
Architectural monuments, Austrian, 85
Architectural sketches at Lille, 2

ARCHITECTURAL ERECTIONS (New)-

Almshouses, St. Pancras COLLING, 121
Bank for savings, Providence, U.S.-
HALL, 45

Baths and Wash-houses, Kidderminster
-ASHPITEL and WHICHCORD, 357
Baths and Wash-houses, Tynemouth-
ASHFITEL and WHICHCORD, 25
Battery, Liverpool-WESTMACOTT, 435
Bridge, Wien, Vienna-FORSTER, 821
Capitol, Tennessee, U. S., 45
Cemetery, Great Grimsby-MAUGHAM
and FOWLER, 429
Cemetery, St. Pancras-BARNETT and
BIRCH, 1, 249

Chambers, New Cannon-street-BELCHER,
328

Chapel, Wesleyan, Torquay-APPLETON,
161

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Architectural erections-Continued:
College, training, Cheltenham-DAUKES,

41

Corn exchange, Liverpool-PICTON, 25
Corn exchange, Louth-BELLAMY, 81
Crystal palace, Sydenham, 241
Crystal palace, New York-CARSTENSEN
and GILDEMEISTER, 345
Custom house (iron) Peru-WooDS, 185
Egyptian court, crystal palace, 242
Exhibition building, Munich, 435
Fishing settlement, Erris-TINKLER, 253
Hall, Hooton, Cheshire-COLLING, 201
Lodge (Tromer), Down, Kent-TARRING,

296

Market, Bradford-WILSON and FULLER,
393

Market, Norwich-TRIMEN, 241
Market house, near Vienna-FORSTER,
161

Price's pat. candle company's works,
Cheshire, 278

Record office, Roll's-buildings-PENNE-
THORNE, 281

Schools, Haslingden-HOLMES, 9
Schools, Monkland-HICKS, 16
Schools, national, Coventry-MUBRAY,

400

Schools, parochial, Exeter-ASHWORTH,
460

Stand pipe, Philadelphia W. W.-How-
SON, 337

Sydenham crystal palace, 241

Theatre, Aix-la-Chapelle-CREMER, 168
Theatre (Phoenix) Broadway, New York
-TRIMBLE, 805

-

WILSON and

Town hall, Bradford
FULLER, 393
Town hall, Burslem-ROBINSON, 288, 323
Warehouse, Belfast-JACKSON, 212
Warehouse, ironworks, Paris-MARQUET,
425, 463

Wash-house, Liverpool-NEWLANDS, 257
Arctic, boilers of, 397
Armstrong's hydraulic cranes, 396
Arnott, on warming and ventilation of
schools, 295; mines, 296

Arnott's smoke-consuming fireplace, 201,
289

Art and science, past and present, Harding
on, 68

Art, symbolism in (rev.) 98, 136
Artesian boring, 446

Artificial stone, Giret's, 65

Ashe's great circle course indicator, 166
Ashley's ventilation of ships, 388
Ash-pan, locomotive, Davis', 112
Assaying precious metals, 56
Assaying in the U. S., 407

Aston's composition for coating materials,
104

Astronomy, manual of, Drew (rev.) 114
Asylums, lunatic, sites for, 426
Athens, acropolis of, 121
Atherton, on conversion of reciprocating
into rotary motion, 27
Atmosphere, effects upon building materials,
297

Atmospheric changes, Hopkins (rev.) 271
Austen, on drainage works, Bangor, 425,

427

Austin's hexagonal separating pipes, 385;
sub-way tunnel, 315, 388
Australia, iron churches for, 278; emigra-
tion, Webber on (rev.) 114; proposed rail-
ways, 147
Austrian architectural monuments, 85
Avery's lighthouse foundations, 344
Axles, Andrew's pat. 60

Bache, on lighthouse, Nantucket, 410, 449
Back drainage, 125, 169, 254, 298

Bain's telegraphs, 309, 311, 348
Bakewell's telegraph system, 395
Bangor drainage works, 425, 427
Bank for savings, Providence, U. S., 45
Banner's water-wheel, 268
Bardwell, on sewage deodorising, 14
Bardwell's healthy homes (rev.) 306
Barges for canals, Hennessy on, 406
Barlow, on uses of silica in the arts, 382
Barnard Castle drainage and water supply,
179, 254

Barometer, fluctuations of, Hopkins (rev.)

271

Barometer, marine, Adie's, 394
Barrel-head chuck, Fruit's, 154
Barrett, on iron floors, 55, 90, 130
Barrett's pat. indurating stone, 31
Barrington's self-righting life-boat, 108
Batchelder's telegraph, 349
Bateman, on Chester water supply, 324;
on Manchester waterworks, 24
Baths and wash-houses, Kidderminster,
357; Tynemouth, 25

Baths and wash-houses, Cape (rev.) 100
Battery (north), Liverpool, 435
Baylis, on Chester water supply, 324
Baylis's pat. furnaces, 106
Bazalgette, on Drainage-Barnard Castle,
179; Metropolis, 169; Rugby, 126; St.
Thomas, Exeter, 178, 181; Sandgate, 127;
Tottenham, 177

Beacon, New South Shoal, U. S., 410, 449
Beacon, tripod, 418

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Broadway (New York) new buildings, 305
116 Brodie, on sails and rudders, 89

Beams, compound, strength of, 122
Bean's surveyor's manual (rev.) 424
Beardmore, on Lee river improvements,
Beattie's locomotive engine, 217
Beaufort floating dock, Swansea, 88
Bed pins, McBrides, 227
Bee-hive boiler, Stetson on, 266
Belfast, iron floor in warehouse at, 212
Bell's paint and liquid cement, 332
Bellford's iron submarine tunnels, 108;
paddle-wheel, 152; quartz crushing, 287
Bellhouse's iron custom house, Peru, 185
Bennoch's proposed bridge, Thames-street,

431

Bentham's caissons for docks, 237, 260, 262;
fire-extinguishing works for dockyards,

385

Bernard's moulding apparatus, 152
Bigge, on warming of churches, 62
Bills, private, for session 1854, 30
Birkenhead, Canada works, 252
Birkenbine's supplementary valve, 148
Birmingham, building in, 48
Birmingham water supply-Brande on, 445;
Clarke on, 445; Rawlinson and Pigott
Smith, 446; Dr. Angus Smith, 448; water-
works pumping engines, 56
Blasting, Stickney's, 110
Blocks for roads and paving, Lillie's, 107
Board of health and sewers commission, 125,
169, 254, 291

Board of health "blue-books," 77, 115, 206
Boats (canal), incline plane, for, 77
Boats for canal traffic, 406
Boats, self-righting, Barrington's, 108
Bocking church, door at, 381
Boiler, bee-hive, Stetson on, 266
Boiler discs, fusible, Burnett's, 267
Boiler explosion apparatus, 387
Boiler explosion, Robinson on, 16
Boiler, improved, 152
Boiler, Irving's, 75

Boiler, locomotive, Fairbairn on, 219
Boiler, McConnell's, Clark on, 28
Boiler gauge, Echol's 27

Boiler regulator, Clark's, 248
Boiler furnace, Fairbairn's, 399
Boiler furnace, Woodcock on, 465
Boilers, Andrew's pat. 60

Browning's coating for ships' bottoms, 154
Brunlees, on Kelso drainage, 374
Brush, varnish, Thum's, 423
Buffer, vulcanised india-rubber, 72
Building materials, atmospheric influence
on, 297

Bulnois, on drainage of metropolis, 181, 205
Buoys, construction of, 59
Buoys, disc, 418

Burnell, on durability of building materials,
297; on iron floors, 54, 95, 133; on metro-
politan drainage, 207; reply to general
board of health, 291

Burslem town hall, 288, 323
Byzantine court, crystal palace, 243
Cabinet maker's assistant (rev.) 145
Caisson, Keyham docks, 237, 258, 262
Caloric engine, Ericsson's, 118, 393; Napier's
394; Stirling's, 393; Rankine on, 393
Canada grand trunk railway, 211, 252
Canada works, Birkenhead, 252
Canal, Ganges, 329
Canal incline, 77

Canal, new midland, 468
Canal navigation in America, 312; in Ire-
land, 402

Canals, form of vessels for, 406
Canals, stoppage of, 384

Candle (Price's) company's works, Cheshire,

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Cement, liquid, Bell's, 332
Cements, action of sea water on, 388; of
atinosphere on, 301

Cemetery, Bonn, sepulchral monuments, 351
Cemetery, Great Grimsby, 429; St. Pan-
cras, 1, 249

Cemetery estate, Tower Hamlets, 389
Chadwick's fluid meter, 188, 305
Chain making, Sleppy's, 111
Chains of suspension bridges, 176

Chairs, Pym's 229; Carr's pat. 33; Grif-
fich's, 76

Champion's bridge building, 161; tapering
double-lever bridge, 352
Chapel building society, 117

Chapel, Torquay, 161

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Herapath's, 107

Derrick, Holmes's, 224
Derry, port of, 53

Design, College of N. Staffordshire, 117
Devonport, drainage and water supply, 228
Diagrams and models, Sopwith on, 327
Dies, Jackson's, 227

Chapels, Great Grimsby cemetery, 429; St. Dipping and apparent lights, 107

Pancras, cemetery, 1

Charcoal respirator, Stenhouse's, 315

Cheltenham training college, 41

Cheshire, Hooton hall, 201

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Ersted's telegraph, 309
Escape valve, Waddell's, 8

Estimate for lighthouse, Nantucket, 409;
beacon, 450

Exchange (corn) Louth, 81; Liverpool, 25
Exeter parochial schools, 460
Exhibition, architectural, 426; educational,
278, 281, 295, 327; royal academy, 233
Exhibition palace, Munich, 87, 435
Expansion of steam, 342

Dirck's apparatus to prevent boiler explo- Exhibition (great) surplus appropriation, 6
sions, 387

Ditching, hill-side, 109

Dixon, on scientific training, 263
Dobson, death of, 426

Dock, Beaufort, Swansea, 88

Dock caisson at Keyham, 237, 258, 262
Dock, willow, 354

Dockyard fire-extinguishing works, 385

Christopher, on iron floors, 96, 130, 134; Docks, Clegg on, 258
death of, 317
Church-Bocking,

Essex, 381; Christ-

church, Newgate-street, 380; Osrigg, 38
Church warming, Bigge on, 62
Churches, medieval, Wickes on spires and
towers (rev.) 9

Churches new and repaired, 117

Churches, iron, for Australia, 278

Churches, proposed additional, 321

Circle course indicator, 166

Clamp floor, Parrish's, 111

Clark, on Birmingham water supply, 445
Clark, on fishing steamer, Enterprise, 156,
195, 236

Collisions, prevention, Gosling's, 232
Colonial railways, 147

Colour-blindness, Lardner on, 74

Colour, decorative, Ruskin on, 457

Colour in glass painting, Winston on, 18, 43
Commissioners of sewers and board of
health, 125, 169, 254, 291

Compass variation in iron ships, 398
Conductor lightning) 354; Nasmyth on, 387
Conical flour mill, 121

Constantinople, aqueducts of, 84; fountains,
167

Contour-levelling, description of, 82
Cooke's telegraph, 311

Copper, action of atmosphere on, 303; im-
ports and exports, 318
Copperplates, electrotype, 461
Copper stays, Fairbairn on, 222
Corn exchange, Liverpool, 25; Louth, 81
Cornish engine valves, 148

Corrugating plates, Montgomery's, 227
Clark, on McConnell's express engine, 28
Clarke, on Australian and colonial railways,

147

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Docks, Newcastle, 5; Swansea, 328; Wel-
lington, 117

Donaldson, on architectural drawings at
Lille, 2; on architecture in painting, 291
Door, from Bocking church, 381
Dormer window, Hill hall, 460
Doulton, ou pipe sewerage, 208
Drain pipes, wedgeular jointed, 248; hexa-
gonal separating, 385

Drainage, Austin's subway for, 315, 383
Drainage, back, 125, 169, 254, 293
Drainage, surface (hill-side), 109
DRAINAGE WORKS-

Bangor, 425, 427

Barnard castle, 179, 254
Bradford, 294

Devonport, 228
Falmouth, 247
Kelso, 374

Lee river, 116

London, 125, 169, 181, 205, 223, 251, 254,
286, 291, 341; north of Thames, 169,
205, 223, 286, 341; south of Thames,
35, 76, 287
Manchester, 24
Rugby, 126, 254

St. Thomas, Exeter, 178, 181, 254
Sandgate, 127, 254
Swansea, 246, 441

Thames marshes, 331, 376
Tottenham, 177, 182, 254
Towns in general, 435
Draught, Williams on, 370
Draught of flues, Cresson on, 400
Drawbridge, railway, McRea's, 27
Drawbridge, telegraph, McRea's 137
Drawing, Dawson on, 421
Drawings, architectural, at Lille, 2
Dredger, rotary, Fonde's, 400

Drew's manual of astronomy (rev.) 114
Dudgeon's hydraulic press, 128
Duffin, on perspective (rev.) 11
Dujardin's telegraph, 348
Duncan's surveyors' guide (rev.) 272
Dussuc's steam plough, 105
Dwelling-house, Coburg, 128
Dwellings of industrial classes, Smith on,
102

Dyce, on starch in fresco painting, 358
Dymond, on drainage of St. Thomas, Exeter,

181

Explosion (boiler) Fairbairn on, 219; Robin-
son on, 16

Express locomotive, McConnell's, 28
Extramural cemetery, Finchley, 1, 249
Fabrics' court, crystal palace, 244
Facing buildings, Dyott's, 37
Fairbairn, on boiler explosions, 219; on
caisson, Keyhamn docks, 237; on compass
variation in iron ships, 398; on solidifica-
tion by pressure, 394; on steam travelling
crane, 444; smoke-consuming furnace, 399
Fallacies of vision, Lardner on, 73
Falmouth water supply and drainage, 247
Fatigue and fracture of metals, 237
Fences, Ross's, 38

File or rasp, Powers', 111
Filter, water, Forster's 304
Filtration of water, Trotman on, 249
Finchley extramural cemetery, 1
Fire arins, Cooks, 227
Fireproof floors, 54, 90, 129, 807
Fireplace, Arnott's smoke-consuming, 201,
289; Arnott, on position of, 289
Fire-extinguishing works in dockyards, 385
Fishing settlement, Erris, 253
Fishing steamer Enterprise, 156, 195, 236
Floating dock, Swansea, 88
Flood fences, Ross's, 38
Floor (iron) warehouse, Belfast, 212
Floor, St. George's hall, 361

Floors and roads, Lillie's, 107

Flour mill, conical, 121

Getty's iron ships, 68

Geometrical extraction of cube-root, 268
Germany, architecture in, 117
Girder plates, resistance of, 26
Girder rails, Adams on, 13
Girders, compound, strength of, 122
Giret's artificial stone, 65
Glasgow sewage, 14

Glass, action of atmosphere on, 303
Glass manufacture, Swinburne's, 105
Glass painting, Winston on, 18, 43
Glass surfaces, Iglesia's, 103; Barlow on,

382

Glover's two-wheel carriages, 464
Glynn, on water meters, 186
Gold assaying, 56; coinage, U. S. 407
Gold quartz machinery, Bellford's 287;
Wright's, 209

Goodwin Sands, lighthouse for, 61
Gosling's railway signals, 232
Gothic architecture, Colling (rev.) 381
Grand trunk railway of Canda, 211, 252
Granite, action of atmosphere on, 298
Grantham's high-level railway, Liverpool,

394
Grate, Quarm's, 308; smoke-consuming,
Arnott's, 201, 289

Great Grimsby cemetery, 429
Gribbon's sash movements, 424
Grimsby cemetery, 429
Grinding steel, Chesterman's, 232
Grouting for iron floors, 54
Gun, elliptical, 426
Guthrie, on smoke consumption, 175
Gypsum beds, South America, 468
Gyroscope, Foucault's, 396

Hackney brook sewer, 169, 205, 223, 286,

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Fox and Barrett's iron floors, 55, 90, 130, Heating churches, Bigge on, 62; schools,

212, 307

France, coal mines in, 460

Francis, on paving of Manchester, 24

Fracture of metals, 237

French method of iron flooring, 54, 95, 133
Fresco painting, Dyce on, 358
Frescoes, palace of Westminster, 85, 357
Frigates for the United States, 342
Fuel, consumption of, Fairbairn on, 399;
economising, Arnott on, 201, 289; Bris-
tol's pat. 67; Rankine, on waste of, 393

Easton, on drainage of Thames marshes, 332, Fuel-saving fireplace, Arnott's, 201, 289

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Arnott on, 295

Hebson's air-pump, 225
Henley's telegraph, 349

Hennessy on flow of water through pipes,
338; on inland navigation of Ireland, 400;
on properties of the wedge, 218
Herapath's sewage deoderising, 107
Hexgonal separating drain pipes, 385
Hill hall, dormer window, 460
Hill-side ditching, American, 109
Hobbs, on locks, 116

Hooton Hall, Cheshire, 201
Holme's gas manufacture, 333
Holmes's derrick, 224

Holywood light, Belfast, 413

Hopkins, on atmospheric changes, (rev.)
271; on rain at different elevations, 213
Horizontal rock-borer, Nasmyth's, 400
Horn's telegraph, 349

House (dwelling), Coburg, 128

366;

Houses telegraph, 348

Huggins, ou St. George's hall, 363

Garland, on pumping engine, Birmingham
W. W. 56

Gas-and-air engine, Wrede's, 68
Gas, cannel coal, 250

Gas, electric, 254

Gasholder, Philadelphia, 384

Gas manufacture, Holme, 333

Gas meter, Hanson's, 305; Poole's, 216
Gas nipple. self-regulating, 427

Gas purifier, Wigston, 75

Gas regulator, 25

Gas stove, Lloyd's, 165

Humidity of rooms, Lloyd (rev.) 166

Huntingdon, on extraction of cube root, 268

Hydraulic cranes, Armstrong, 396
Hydraulic cements, 388
Hydraulic press, Dudgeon's, 128
Hydraulic meters, Boyden's, 37, 38
Hydrostatic percolater, Loysel's, 196

Iglesia's ornamental glass surfaces, 103
Illuminated MSS. Ruskin on, 457
Illumination and painting, distinction,
Ruskin on, 457

Incline plane for canals, 77

India-rubber railway-carriage springs, 72
Indicator, great circle, 166

Indurating stone, &c., 31

Inkstand, Whitney's, 24

Inland navigation of Ireland, 402

Gasworks, metropolitan, Clegg on removal, Insulating telegraph wires, Allan's, 334

296

Gauge for steam boilers, 27

Ireland, celtic monumenss in, 198; inland
navigation of, 402

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