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The Numbers refer to the Articles according to the Marginal Numbers of the Text,
Mauufac Acrospire, in malting, 1118.tures. Adhesion, of wheels and rails, 302.
Air-vessels for regulating motion, 87.
Alarum for fire, clock, 446.
Alembics for distilling, 1130.
Alloys used in coining, 871.
-casting cannon, 926.
Alum works, description of, 597.
Annealing glass, 695.
Arkwright ’s patent for spinning cotton, 978.
Authors on mills and mill-work, 122.
-the steam-engine, 178.
-the subject of hydraulics, 343.
-clockwork, 913.
Balances of watches, 905.
Banca ’s proposition for the application of steam, 145.
Bands and straps for transmitting motion, 76.
Bark, quantity exported and imported, 462.
Barker’s mill, 121.
Barometer gauges for steam-engines, 200.
Bayonet locking, for machinery, -51.
Beale’s light for manufactories, 845.
Beaming inweaving, 1031.
Beaufoy’s experiments on pendulums, 896.
Behnes’s machines for sculpture, 1101. 1
Beighton’s improvement of Newcomen ’s engine, 154.
Bellows for regulating motion, 87.
-wooden, for forges, 384.
Bells, method of casting, 925.
Biscuit ware in the potteries, 660.
-baking by the old process, 1114.
-machinery, 1115.
Black’s experiments and deductions of latent heat, 126.
Blake’s investigation of the proper proportion of steam cylinders, 159.Blakey’s improvement of Savery’s engine, 162.
Blast furnace in iron works, 562.
-engine in iron works, 564.
Bleaching, sketch of the old method, 740.
■-modern system, 742.
Blending mill in pottery, 651.
Blinkinsop’s locomotive engine, 302.
Block machinery at Portsmouth, 370.
Blocks used in paper-staining, 1147.
Blow-pipe in manufacturing glass articles, 701.
Blowing machines, 383.
--- in His Majesty’s Dock-yard, Woolwich, Brim-
ton’s, Sharp and Roberts’s, 385.
-glass, process described, 694.
Blue painting and printing in pottery, 665.
Bobbin-net manufacture, 1040.
Boilers for steam-engines, dimensions of, 182.safety of, 184.
~~—■— in locomotive engines, 317.
Bolting mill fur flour, 497.
Bookbinders’ and stationers’ press, 429.
Boring machine for ship blocks, 372.gun barrels, 941.
IT ‘—~ machines, various kinds, 386.
Bottle glass, manufacture of, 688.
"—jack, description of, 411.ox? coupling, described, 46.
Brake for mills, 97.
Bramah’s lock, description of, 414.
Brass, manufacture of, 594.
Z ,T b y cementation, 595.
rea mg machine, hemp manufacture, 1000.
worsted manufacture, 1028.
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Brewing, 1125.
Brick-making, history of, 637.
Broaching engine, 379.
Broad glass, manufacture of, 687.
Brunton’s locomotive engine, 302.
Bucket for water wheels, 111.
-wheel, 340.
Buckets, chain of, 118.
Button-making, 862.
Cables, experiments on the strength of, 433.
Calender, description of, 389.
Calico-printing, 774.
Canal communication in Great Britain , 289.
Cap, self-adjusting, for windmills, 98.
Capstan, common ship, 393.
-Phillips’s, Smith’s, and Eckhardt’s, 393.
Card-making machine, Dyer’s, 402.
Carding machine, cotton manufacture, description of, 989.
---woollen manufacture, 1018.
Cartwright’s steam-engine, 176.
Casting statues, 923.
-bells, 925.
-cannon, 926.
- in plaster, 1100.
Index.
Cement, Parker’s, composition of, &c., 463, 468.
-mill for grinding, 465.
-experiments on by M. Vicat, 470.
-exposed to the action of water, 479.
-Smeaton and Brunei ’s experiments on, 482.
Cementing furnace for the manufacture of steel, 575.Centrifugal pump, description of, 350.
Chain of buckets, 118.
Chapman’s locomotive, 302.
Charcoal, manufacture of, 600.
Chelsea waterworks, 857.
Clements’s planing machine, 419.
Clock and watch making, history of, 879.
-common, construction of, 885.
-work, authors on, 913.
-escapements, 897.
-alarum for, 447.
Clothing the sails of windmills, 104.
Clutch, friction, for engaging and disengaging, 51.
Coal mines, history of, 230.
---explosions in, 239.
Coals, probable time they may last, 232
-annual consumption of, 231.
-method of working, 235.
-unloading of, 6.
Cocoa-nut oil-mill, 512.
Cogged wheels, construction of, 37.
Coiu, the wear of, 871.
-of England, relative value of gold and silver, 872.
Coining, history of, 870.
-process of, described, 873.
.. origin of the modern machinery, 875.
-cutting-O’it mill, 877.
-apparatus by Hague, 878.
Coke, making of, for iron manufacture, 561.
Coking engine, 377.
Colour mill, 483.
Combs and comb pot in worsted manufacture, 1026.Comb-cutting engine, 321.
Combination or puzzle lock, 415.
Compensation balances for watches, 904.
- -pendulum, 887.
Condensation of steam, 144.
Condensing main in gas works, 827Conical friction rollers, 61.
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