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Page

Gates or entrances to

cities -

69

-- of Augustus

91

-, Circeium

-■ of the Lions at

88

Mycenae

71

-of canals -

Gauges for steam-

1102

engines

1254

——, water and tu-

bular -

1255

Gaunus, Mount

148

Gear, bevelled -

942

Geometry - 733. 835

George’s, St., Chapel,

Windsor

1630

Gephyrasans - 66. 81

Giallo Antico mar-

,

ble -

703

Gin for lifting - 957. 959

Girders, strength of -

1312

Girgenti, town of

63

Glass, its manufacture- ., machine for

731

polishing

975

Globe -

701

Globular projection -

747

Gneiss system -

633

-, its composition

654

Gnomonic, or central

projection

746

Gold

650

Goldsmith, arch of -

96

Gortyna, city ofGothic windows, their

51

proportions -Goubert’s apparatus

1608

for raising shipsGovernor or centri-

1056

fugal power -

1262

Gradients on railways

1567

Graham’s dead beat -

983

Grandi, Guido -

206

Granite, Aberdeen -

634

-, graphite 383.

. 634

-, porphyritic 348,

. 634

Gravatt’s level -

797

Graving docks -Gravity, specific, of

294

bodies, tables of

111 6

-, centre of

921

——, earth ’s

1120

■ , force of -

920

-, metals

1117

-, woods

1119

-of a circle

921

■-of a cone

921

—— of a paraboloid -

921

-of a sphere

921

—— of a segment

921

-of a sector

921

■-of a trapezium -

921

— of a triangle

921

Greece - - -

40

Greenstone

634

Grilliage of timber -

221

Page

Groins, construction

of 1525

Groundwork, value of 896Gudgeons - 948, 949

Guglielmini , Domi-nico - 207

Gunter’s chain 846, 847Gymnasium - - 120

Hadrian, circus of - 119

Halley’s diving-bell - 1051Hammers for for-ging - 1042

Harbours, see Ports .Harmonical propor-tion - 766

Harry Grace de Dieu 814Heat, radiation of - 1223

-, conduit pipes - 127

Hedgehog for rivers - 1059Heights - 736

Helepolis - - .47

Heliogabal us, circus of 119Hellespont, bridge

over - - ~ 66

Henry VII.’s Chapel,Westminster -

Heptagon - - 879

Hepteres - - 137

Herodes Atticus - 50

Hexaedron - 755. 889

Hexagon - 887

Hexastyle temples - 1582—, proportions - -Hiero, palace of - 57

Hippodamus of Mile-tus 46

•-, several - - 148

Hippodrome of Con-stantine 95

Hoisting tackle - 1012

— for the Menai

Bridge - - 1027

Holly, wood of - 101. 1286Hooke’s universaljoint - - - 950

Hooke, Dr., on the

Catenarian - - 417

Horizontal line - 735

Hornbeam wood 101. 1286Horse, power of - 1092-, observations on 1093

- — , daily work of - 1017

Plot-blast iron - 683

Hounslow Pleath,

base line on - - 853

Plumber dock wall - 1526

- basin piers - 1529

Hulls , Jonathan - 583

Hydraulics - - 34

Hydraulic traversing

frames - - - 1281

--docks - - 294

-lime - - 721

Hydrogen - - 644

Hydromctry - - £07

Hydrostatic balance - 207Hydruntum - . 148

IPygrometric ma-chine - - 990. 999

Hymettus, marble of 99Hypersthene rock - 634

Hypocaustum - 121. 131

Icosaedron - 779. 889Impact, or shock ofwater - - - 1197

Impenetrability - 915Impression, centre of 1115Inclined plane - 296. 924

-planes on canals 1554

Indian Ocean - - 635

Inertia - 916

Invertebrata in geo-logy - - - 621

Iodine - 647

Ionic temples, theirproportions - - 1J87

Iron - 620, 621. 678

-, its cohesion - 693

-, alloys of- - 681

-, assay of - - 679

-, corrugated - 693

-, cylinders - 307

■ -, cylindrical co-

lumns - - 691

-, Duleau’s expe-riments on - 498

-, forging - - 685

-, furnaces - 682

-, galvanised - 694

- hand used by

Archimedes - 58

——, moulding - 684

—, native - - 670

-, piles 313. 315. 549

-, planing - - 1048

—, plate bending - 1028-power of sus-pension - 507

-, proving ma-chine - - 507

puddling - 685

— ■, revolving

shafts - - 693

-, rolling, for-ging, &c. - 685

-, strength of 690. 693

■ -, sulphate of - 680

-, sulphuret of - 680

-, swivel bridges 328

-, teeth .of wheels 946

-, tenacity of - 514

-, tension of - 693

-, valuation of

work done in 910

-, weight, tables of 690

-, wrought - 685

Ischia - 139

-, limestone of - 95

lbddomum - . 1423

Isosceles triangles - 768