THE MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. JANUARY 5TH JUNE 28TH, 1856. EDITED BY R. A. BROOMAN. VOL. LXIV. "All the secrets feigned by poets to have been written in the books of enchanters, are LONDON: ROBERTSON, BROOMAN, AND CO. Mechanics' Magazine Office, 166, FLEET-STREET. AGENTS:-EDINBURGH, J. SUTHERLAND; GLASGOW, W. R. M'PHUN, AND DAVID INDEX TO THE SIXTY-FOURTH VOLUME. Mr. W. B. Adams' improved, 124 Babbage (Mr. C.) on the calculat. ing machine of M. Scheutz, 343 Baddeley (Mr. W.), on London fires in 1855, 148, 170 Baker's method of suspending bells, 361, 411, 461, 506, 559, 607 Balances for safety-valves, Silvester's spring, 10 Balan's aerial railway, 59 Bartlett's machinery for drilling and boring stone, 294 Beams of ships, a plan for securing the, 394 Belleville's smokeless furnace, 529 Bell, improved shop-door, 348 Bells and bell machinery, on large, 361, 411, 461, 506, 559, 607 Bett's patent metal capsules, 583 Biddell's improvements in railway crossings, 418 Blast engines, improved, 145 furnaces, Truran's, improvements in, 205 Blasting, the voltaic battery and, 323 Boats, novel metallic, 468 Bobbin-net or twist lace machines, 420 Boiler explosion at Portsmouth Dockyard, 369 explosions, 13, 224, 249, 271, 273 incrustations, Topham's apparatus for preventing, 275 Boilers, Stevens' improved, 276; Dunn's duplicate retort, 313; Rennie's marine, 437; Cowburn's, 457; safety-apparatus, 468; locomotive, 613 Bond for buildings, Tyerman's hoop-iron, 181 Bonelli's improved electric conductors, 513 Boring stone, Bartlett's machinery for, 294 Brandram and Co.'s Works at Rotherhithe, experiments with Bread, prices of meat and, 182 British patent law for India, 34 Brussels economic exhibition, the, 512 Buffing apparatus, Chattaway's railway, 193, 255, 298, 324 Buildings, Tyerman's hoop-iron bond for, 181 Burchett's "Practical Perspective," 469 Cable, the new Atlantic telegraph, 513 Calculating machine, Mr. Babbage on Scheutz's, 343 Caloric engine, Captain Ericcson's new, 1, 82, 110, 487 Cambridge honours, 134 Camera, Mawson's portable photographic, 225 Campaign, naval preparations for the next, 78 Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, proposed, 414 through the Isthmus of Suez, 79 Cancelled patent, 190 Candles and night-lights, Austen's improvements in, 347 Cannon, Haddan's improvements in, 226; Cochran's improvements in casting, 347; experiments with Whitworth's rifle, 439; American improvements in, 490 Capsules, Bett's patent metal, 583 Carriage, design for a funeral, 14 39, 111 |