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Class 8.— NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, MILITARY ENGINEERING ,West End Gallery and Sooth-West Gallery.

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258 Rippingille, E., 81 King Street, Manchester , and 87Albany Street, Regent’s Park —Inventor.

An improved gun-lock, with stock.

259 Haswell, Robert, 12 Upper Ashby Street —Proprietor.

Air-pistol on a new principle.

200 Needham, Henry, 4 Vine Street, Regent Street —Inventor, Patentee, and Manufacturer.Self-priming gun and safety lock.

2G1 Brider, Joshua, 4 Clifton Cottages, DenmarkStreet, Camberwell —Inventor and Manufacturer.German silver telescope loading rod for fire-arms, withknob and forcer, for general use; adapted for the pocket.

262 Brider, George, 30 Bow Street, Covent Garden —Inventor and Manufacturer.

Rifle mallet for hot climates, having a head of gunmetal, with leather faces, (purple wood handle,) and gun-metal forcer.

263 Baker, Thomas Kerslake, 88 Fleet Street —Inventor and Manufacturer.

Improved patent gun-lock for preventing accidents fromthe use of fire-arms.

264 Golden, W., & Son, Huddersfield —Manufacturers.Bentley’s patent double gun, with improved locks, Sec.

265 Webster, W., Hampstead Road —Inventor.Fusee musket.

266 Siiorman, John, 6 Great Pultency Street,

Golden Square —Producer.

Specimens of inlaying with gold, silver, and other sub-stances, and ornamental engraving on the iron-work ofguns, &c. Impressions on paper, taken from engravedand inlaid work.

267 Mortimer, Thomas Elsworth, 97 George Street,Edinburgh —Manufacturer.

Superior finished double rifle, with simple safety andimproved conical ball.

Highly finished double fowling-piece (for long shots),with low front sight to give elevation to the shot.

Pair of silver-mounted inlaid Highland pistols.

Specimens of improved conical and other balls.

Specimen gun-case, Edinburgh make, with fittingscomplete.

268 Staines, Edward, 9 Salisbury Place, New Road —Proprietor.

Models and plans illustrating a system of fortification.

269 Hodges, R, E., 44 Southampton Row, Russell Square —Inventor.

Patent application of India-rubber to projectile pur-poses.

270 Parsons, William, Swaffham, Norfolk —Manufacturer.

Pair of improved double guns, 2 feet 8 inch barrels,10 bore, central fire, elevated false breech, &c.

Loading rod and socket.

Pair of double guns, 13 bore, 2 feet 8 inch barrels.

Pair of double guns, 20 bore, 2 feet 7 inch barrels.Wainscoat and leather case for each pair of gims.

271 Hall, Lieut.-Colonel, R, E., Southampton —Producer.

Model of the Tower of London , after the destructionof the Armoury at the great fire on the 30th October,1811. Modelled by If. Davis, under the superintendenceof the exhibitor.

272 Moulin, C., 24 Stanley Street, Chelsea— Designer.

Model of a fortified town, defended by six fronts ofortification on three different systems; Vauban ’s, amodified by Cormontainge; Coehorn’s ; and Carnot S.The works of attack and defence are moveable.

273 Lillywiiite, John, Frederick Street, Portsea—

Manufacturer. ,

Metal model of a gun of 95 cwt., with carriage aaslide, on a scale of 1J inch to the foot.

274 Bearfoot, Richard, 11 Warwick Street, Woolwid 1

—Manufacturer.

Two magazines, especially adapted for the safe stowagof powder, wills, documents, &c.; they are also wateproof. The one is made of copper outside and wo°inside, and the other, the reverse; with India-rumjoints instead of bees’-wax and tallow, and one l 00 'instead of two.

275 Tylden, Capt. John, R. Artillery, Woolwich— Mak e *'Models of British ordnance; a light G-pounder fie

piece and carriage. A 32-pounder garrison gun, "0 ^carriage, on traversing platform. A 10-inch howitzer, 0garrison carriage. A 13-inch sea-service mortar and l> e

276 Fercusson, James, 20 Langham Place —Invento 1 '-Model, on a scale of 1 inch to 40 feet, showing eig ’

different modes, in which the front of fortification of ^usual dimensions may be fortified according to a nt ’system. Its objects are, an immense reduction incost of construction, and greater capability of defence.

277 Joyce, Frederick, & Co., 57 Upper Thames

Street —Inventors and Manufacturers.Improved anti-corrosive waterproof percussion g°caps. Military percussion musket-caps. Improved PSmission tube primers. Chemically prepared iuden*cloth and felt gun-waddings. Improved patent " alcartridges.

278 Grainger, James, Wolverhampton —Manufacture 1- -Tube and bar-action gun and rifle gun-locks.

280 Gardner, W. T., 22 Mead Row, Lambeth —

Inventor and Manufacturer.

Model of a ship’s gun, adapted for loading atbreech.

281 King, Thomas John, 16 Whiskin Street—

Pistols, inlaid, the iron-work with gold, the stock '

silver. Small iron scent-bottle, inlaid with silver.

282 Munho, James, jun., 4 High Street, Lambeth

Manufacturer.

Model of a nine-pounder brass gun-carriage and 1scale 1 inch to a foot; and of a twenty-four P (lbrass battering gun and carriage, scale § inch to a

283 Fitz Maurice, The Hon. Wm. Ed., Harnilt on

Lodge, Prince’s Gate —Producer. s of

Model of 68-pounder gun-carriage, which, by in< U lT . ofa rack and pinion inserted in the platform at the ^ ;

the gun, can be worked with great accuracy by om-it now requires six. ,

Model of a mortar platform, worked upon *principle, the endless screw beiug substituted fo rand pinion.

284 Walker, Sarah, & Co., 12 Lcgge Street,

JSnning/arm —Manufacturers. e i'cuS s ’ 0, j

Specimens illustrative of the manufacture of P ^ r olh ,caps for military and sporting purposes: piece g;,iiil 9 'copper from which blanks are cut and caps bliiu^ 8

piece of copper, showing perforations out of ' vluhave been cut by steam-power. _ jyjpjcstJ',!

Blanks for musket-caps, as used in IKL s

service and in the Honourable the East India Bservice.