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INDEX.
Page
Roslyn Chapel, pro-
portions
1618
Rosso antico
703
Rota: machines
1015
1528
--, Cathedral win-
dows, propor-
tions of
1612.
1613
■ ■ , St. Ouen at
1616
Roughton Gill mine
664
Rubble work, value of
907
Rudder, Roman
202
Rudyard, John
368
Rules, parallel -
763
Running water, ex-
periments on
1138
Sabbadino Christo-
pher - - -
209
Sabinum - - -
83
Sacbuts used at Syra-
cuse -
58
Sails of windmills
1219
1603
119
——, gardens of
93
Salopians
84
Samaritaine
255
Samnites
83
Samos ware
49
Sand used by Romans
94
- banks
642
— ■ ■ green
626
-for mortar
723
Sandstone- 629.631.698
Savo, river of -
148
Saxon architecture
1601
Scaean gate, with
mole - - -
72
Scaffolding
1410
-made of spars -
1013
- , Mandar’s design
1413
-of Pantheon
1416
■-, value of
900
-, Zabaglia’s
1414
Scalding houses
286
Seale, manner of di-
viding -
733
Scarfing timber 1304.
1307
Schist, chlorite
633
-, hornblende
632
-, talcose
633
Sciography
785
of - - -
125
Scouring sluice 1559. 234
Screw - - 1214.
1566
■ ■ , Archimedian -
1167
—— bolts, machines
for
1028
------ docks
294
-, endless or per-
petual -
927
*-, jacks
1002
-, mill and press -
955
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Screw-cutting machine 991.
1037
- lock at Dun-kerque- - 217
- - wall at Brighton 1526
-wall at Dim-
church - - 1558
-water - - 636
-waves - - 636
Seasoning timber - 1289Seats in amphitheatres 114Secants of an angle - 856
Sectants - 844
Sectors - - - 749
-, uses of - - 819
- , to find the area
of 875
-, to measure
heights with - 825
Sediments, argilla-ceous - 624
Segments, to find area
of 875
•-, of spheres - 876
Selce, stone for pave-ments - - - 95
Self-acting slide rest - 1030Semicircles - - 748
Semita, or foot-road - 149
Sepulchres cut out ofrocks - - - 82
-Roman - - 196
Seradifalco, Duca di - 80
Serpentine, its compo-sition - - - 635
Servius, wall of - 86
Setting out lines - 793Sewers - - 83. 192
-, commission of 543
■ Roman - - 191
Shackles, chain andscrew - 1023
Shadows - 784
Shafts, or axles - 945
- of cast-iron,
strength of - 945
— — , sunk for tun-nelling - 184. 194
Shales, limestone - 630
-, upper lias - 629
Shears for cuttingiron - 1037
Sheds for ship-build-ing - - - 1343
Sheeting-piles - - 1075
Sheets of iron, punch-ing - - 1035
Shield for tunnelling 1560Ships, Roman - - 137
— — , loaded, manner
of lifting - 294
-, loading and un-loading - 201
—, sunken, to raise 1054
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Sides of triangles, howto calculate - - 854
Sieves, machine tomove - 995
Sight, point of, in per-spective - - 790
Signals - - - 854
Siliceous - - 698
Silicium - 654
Silk-twisting machine 976Silurian in geology - 622
Silver - 657
Sines - 761. 793. 856
-, to find arcs of - 857
Sinuessa on the Do-
mitian road - - 148
Sipho for extinguish-ing fire - - 167
Siphon for draining - 1098.
1164
Skew back of arches - 1430
*-bridges - - 471
Skins inflated to crossrivers 67
Slate, Stonesfield - 628
Slides in geology - 619Slips, inclined planesfor ships - - 239
Sloping beaches, theiradvantages - - 345
Slotting, machines for 1037Sluices of cast-iron - 326
Sluices, 217,218,219.220.
223,1558
——, for scouringharbours - 391. 394
side walls of - 218
-, at Turner’s and
Bergue’s - - 219
Smeaton, John, me-moir of 429
-, diving-bell of - 1051
-, band-pump of - 1175
Smelting and refining 34Smoothing iron, ma-chine for - - 1040
Sodium - 650
Soldering the metals 167Solids, how to con-struct - - - 776
-, mensuration of 888
Sophia, St., at Con stantinople - - 100
Sopwith’s levellingstaves - - 799
Sounding the soil - 1519
-lines - - 850
Sources, machine at - 1190Space - 916
Spandrill and wingwalls - - - 1522
Spar, calcareous - 700
Specifications 445. 465. 468526
Speluncas - - 148