Kingdom.]
AND BUILDING CONTRIVANCES.North Gallery, and with Classes 5 & 6.
329
60
5,700 tons.
^76 Holmes, James, East Ham, Essex— Designer.
Two cottages in one, designed foi 1 the convenience,economy, and comfort of the poorer class of labourers.
177 Freeman, J., 19 Artillery Place , Finsbury —
, Producer.
Model of the railway-bridge crossing Westminsterbridge road. (South Western Kailway.)
178 Moorsom, W. S., Captain, 17£ Great George Street,
"Westminster —Designer and Superintendent.
Prize design for the great bridge over the Rhine, pro-
^°^m/ b X Prussian Government to be erected at Cologne.
1 he piers are to be of stone, and the arches of wroughtiron.
length of the bridge and approaches . . * 2,015 feet.
Pan of each of the large arches ... - 600 „
rru 1 . 11 ^! the lifting-arch.»»
H }ght from foundation to top of towers . * 14-7 ,,
Up* l ron i water to underside of arches . 44 ,,
^ht from water to underside of lifting-
Wbho 1 vben raised. 97 -
Str ttl of tbe bridge (inside the parapets'). .
en Sth of each arch to hear, if distributedover it.
°st, if erected by contract at Prussian5 llce s, as arranned with a Prussian manu-facturer . . .£236,000
Erected, at English prices, about one-fifth less).
latr, he v Princi E >le of tMs brid S e is that of the trelUs °
ae beam combined with tlie arch,n * ,? arrangement of the cross bracing is novel ani"Wav hT’ and affords separate spaces for the great highTb V r ?rlway, and the footway.
Wato t '.King-arch is to be worked by water power; tiiand v> - n £ c °ntained in tanks on the tops of the towersp e „ ,. ein g elevated to those positions by tide-wheels otaM - construction, placed below the possibility of con-With ice, and worked by the river current,pron j rcbei ? are believed to be the largest in the worldlatedr op r 'gi1 construction (not suspension), and calcufLe passage of locomotive engines at speed, amSi ery a * the gallop.
Ij e | ati ^ Pa y viaduct over the river Nore, near Kilkenny arcb * s COns tru.cted of timber, and the piers of ston
|Panofarch ebridSeandappr ° aChe9 ... 200
Wirffk' abo , ve foundations. 85
Siren D-ti 4 tl i. e leTel of the ralls .
05( °'a °f the arch, to bear, if distributed£, v er it ^ .
^’Complete.. i'jv-
the T l | S , is ^eved to be the largest work of the kind .United Kingdom .
8^ Rose, John Thomas, Regent Street, Leith —Designeirailwa ^ ^ 0r a timber viaduct of great span, suitable fos trenntv,° r - ot ' 1 ® r P ur poses. Its object is to unite greattoven a ’with simplicity; the beams forming it are inteiup 0ri d “V 5 basket-work, and the greater the stress throwmay he , e “to 16 rigid it becomes. The same principlties, s ; adapted to large roofs, without the use of crossbut 'smalf tbe outw ’ ard thrust upon the walls would b
Su Pplementary model illustrating the principle.
MacLachl
428 feet.200 „
26 „
600 tons
£ 8,100
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.lan, John, Douglas, Isle of Man —Inventor.
'•■“uyin a bouse ’ and plans for purifying towrremovin™® P u trescenee, affording economical means _the necp? ?? ailures (inoffensively) by rail; and precludiiSlt y of cleansing drains, &c.
182 n -
jan tlli., William, Truro — Inventor.
reel conta? aP a’- C °“ sistin g of a rope-ladder wound aboutained m the window-scat, or in a box fixed insi<
a window, to be thrown out, and the lower end securedby a bystander. _
183 Bergin, Marmadcke Osborn, 8 George Street,
Working model of a registered self-acting fire extin-guisher, applicable to smouldering fires, to machineryliable to ignition by friction, to spontaneous combustibles,and to highly-inflammable substances.
184 Hendy, James, 1 Bouvcrie Street, Fleet Street —
Inventor.
Model for a new national fire-escape; its object is sim-plicity of arrangement and rapidity of motion.
185 Webster, W. Bollock, 2 St. James’s Place,Hampstead Road —Inventor and Manufacturer.
Model of a fire-escape, available for a long range orblock of houses of different heights.
i 186 Green, Isaac, 3 Vittorio. Place, Boston Square —Inventor.
Wind-guards for chimney tops, to cure smoke. Thefollowing cut represents this apparatus, and is intended toillustrate its method of action.
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Green’s Wind-guard.
187 Nunn, Alicia, 2a Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square—Producer.
New apparatus and method of diffusing heat and equal-izing the temperature of apartments, and disseminatingthe warmth from one ordinary fire into several apart-ments. Applicable to residences, warehouses, railwayand other carriages, and for safety on ship-board.
188 Wilson, Thomas Hood , Twickenham —Inventor.
Slides on a pair of folding doors, for excluding thewet and the cold from hall doors and shutters; also forhatchways and port-holes of ships.
Invention for securing carriage gates and coach-housedoors, being self-acting; stops and bolts for the same.
190 Mudge, John, 78 Tottenham Court Road — Inventor.
Private fire-escape, the machinery so constructed as tobe fixed to any part of the house, and worked from thestreet as well as in the room.
191 Beeston, J., Swaile’s Cottages, Hammersmith —
Inventor.
Wind-guard for chimney tops.
192 Adcock, Thomas , jun., Penkridge, Staffordshire —
Inventor.
Simultaneous gates for railway crossing. Exhibitedfor safety, economy, and despatch. They are intendedto supersede the present wood gates, as the ironwork tothe heels will show; for new iron gates, the heels wouldbe in one length, everything being in accordance. Theposts are intended to be of cast iron, the supports fixed