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THE MECHANICS’ MAGAZINE Irarral of Engineering, Agricultural Partners, Pnnnfatlnres, anb [Registered lor Transmission Abroad.] YOL. 92.—No. 2367 LONDON : FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1870. PRICE FOTTRPENCE. By Post, 5d. CONTENTS. PAGE The Origin of Meteorites 109 Proof-load of Railway Bridges 109 Dr. Livingstone 110 Electricity and Telegraphy 110 Notes on Recent Discoveries in Science and their Practical Applications Ill The Royal Institution ... Ill ociety of Engineers 112 Society of Arts II4 London and County Bank ... 114 Warsop’s Patent Aero-Steam Power Engine 115 Forged Iron Works 115 <9 Tangyc’8 High-pressure Expansive Engino 116 Wilson’s Improved Screw Engine 116 Hydrostatic Steering Apparatus 117 Match-box Candlestick 117 On Recent Improvements in Small Arms and Ammunition ... 117 Apparatus for Preventing the Accumulation of Deposits upon Ships’ Hulls llg V Machine for the Manufacture of Steel Watch and Clock Springs 119 A Large Steam Crane 120 Mr. Latham's Solid Sewage Extractor 120 London Association of Foremen Engineers 120 Railway Block Telegraph Signals 121 Weekly Chemical, Mineral, and Metal Report 121 To Correspondents 121 Meetings for the Week 121 Naval, Military, and Gunnery Items 121 Miscellanea 121 Abridged Specifications of Patents 122 Applications for Letters Patent ... 125 Notices of Intention to Proceed with Patents 126 List of Sealed Patents 126 Patents on which the Stamp Duty of £50 has been paid 126 Patents on which the Stamp Duty of £100 has been paid 126 List of Specifications Published 126 Provisional Protections 126 T> OYAL SCHOOL of MINES, JERMYN- JL v street.—Professor RAMSAY, LL.D., F.R S., will commence a course of THIRTY-SIX LECTURES on GEOLOGY on TUESDAY next, February 15. at 2 o’clock, to be continued on each succeed ing Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday, at the same hour. Fes for the Course, £3. Professor GOODEVE, M.A. will commence a course of THIRTY- SIX LECTURES on APPLIED MECHANICS, on TUESDAY next, February 15, at 12 o’clock, to be continued on each succeeding Wed nesday, Thursday, and Tuesday, at the same hour. Fee for the Course, £3. B 341 TRENHAM REEKS, Registrar. TTNIYERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. V_y —ARCHITECTURE. — Professor LEWIS will commence his LECTURES for the second term on TUESDAY, February 15. The subject of the lectures will be as follows;—FINE ART—Mediaeval, and Renaissance Architecture, commencing with early Christian work. CONSTRUCTION—Carpentry, Masonry, Quarries. Archesl Groining, and Ironwork, commencing with the framing of Mediasva Roofs. Fee for either Course, £3 13s. 6d.; for both, £6 6s. Further particulars may be obtained at the College, Gower-street, W.C. B340 JOHN ROBSON, B.A., Secretary to the Council. PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS in ELEMEN- TARY DRAWING of the ’Second Grade at South Kensing ton.—Pubic Examinations in Drawing, conducted by the Science and Art Department, will be held on the 10th and 11th of March, 1870. Candidates must assemble at 6.30 p.m. or 8 p.m., and the papers will be given out as follows:—On the 10th March, Freehand Diawing, 7 p.m.; Geometry, 8.30 p.m. On the 11th March. Model Drawing, 7 p.m.; Perspective. 8.30 p.m. The examination will be of the second grade only? and will be open to male and female candidates above twelve years of age, who are not attending elementary day schools for the poor. Prizes will be given to candidates who excel in the examinations. Persons who wi«h to be examined must apply before 2nd March, to the Secretary of the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, stating their names and addresses, and the subjects in which they are prepared to be examined. Private schoolteachers, wishing to have several of their scholars examined, are required to furnish the names of those who will present themselves for examina tion in any of the above subjects for the second grade. By Order of ’ fl| fig * " " f the Committee of Council on Education. B 340 T ONDON ASSOCIATION of FORE- l J MEN ENGINEERS.—The Seventeenth ANNIVERSARY DIN NER will take place in the Grea Hall of the City Terminus Hotel on SATURDAY, February 19 next, at 6 p.m. Sir William Fair- BAIRN, Bart, C.E., F.R.S., LL.D.. will preside, and will be supported by Sir Joseph Whitworth, C.E., F.R.S., LL.D., E. J. Reed, Esq., C.B. (Chief Constructor of the Navy), Professor Tyndall, Colonel W. F. D. Jervois, C.B., R.E., Mr. Alderman Carter, M.P., and many other dis tinguished gentlemen. Tickets, 7s. 6d. each, may be obtained of Mr. David Walker, secretary, 14, Canterbury-place, Lambeth-road, London. N.B. A limited number of cards of admission to the Ladies’ Gal lery, at 2s. 6d. each ; may also be obtained of the Secretary. By Order, J. NEWTON (II.M. Mint), President. D. WALKER, Secretary, a January 21,1870. I ENGINEERING AGENCY—The Adver. J tiser, who has a large engineering connection, is prepared to undo rtake the agency of a manufacturing firm, or to promote the development and working of new inventions of a practical charac ter.—Address M. S. E., 18, Great George-street, Westminster, S.W. TO ENGINEERS. HE “ FIELD ” TUBES can be fitted to already existing boilers. They will either effect a considerable saving in fuel or enable boilers now short of steam to keep full steam —For price and particulars apply to Mr. LEWIS OLRICK, Consult ing Engineer, 27, Leadenhall-street, London. A > T T HE “FIELD” BOILER is the mos economical steam boiler as to space, fuel, and price. It i 8 equally adapted for stationary, portable and marine engines. Illustra tions and full particulars may be ebtained by applying to Mr. LEWIS OLRICK, Consulting Engineer, 27, Leadenhall-street, London,E.C. A3 D rawings, plans, tracings, &c., executed with accuracy and despatch, on moderate terms, by MESSER and THORPE, Mechanical and General Draughtsmen, 8, Quality-court, Chancery-lane, W.C. M. and T. are thoroughly practical Engineers. B 36 GRAND PRIX (GOLD MEDAL), PARIS EXHIBITION, 1867. S HAFT-SINKING through Water-bearing Upper Strata, without use of Pumping Machinery. Chaudron’s Patent SYSTEM is successful even in cases previously abandoned on account of overpowering volumes of water. Expenditure reduced by eighty per cent No leakages, no repairs. Agents wanted.—HENRY SIMON, C.E., Manchester. MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c. 64 Charing-cross S.W., H OLTZAPFFEL and CO. supply first quality INSTRUMENTS at second quality prices. A visit of inspection is solicited. A 32 P HILLIPS’S PATENT SOLID FLANGE GIRDERS give double the strength of ordinary riveted plate girders of corresponding sectional area and weight, and are supplied in the usual sections at a lower rato per ton. Particulars furnished on application to the patentees, W. and T. Phillips, 25, Coal Exchange, E.C. PHILLIPS’S PATENT IMPROVED FIRE-PROOF FLOORING dispenses with the use of all Wooden Fillets and Laths; can be laid by any labourer, and the ceiling plastered immediately; is light and indestructible, and in combination with the Iron Joists, forms a per fect structure at a trifling cost over the ordinary combustible Timber Floors. W. and T. Phillips, Patentees, 25, Coal Exchange, E.C. PHILLIPS’S ROLLED WROUGHT-IRON JOISTS AND BEAMS are specially manufactured from a tough and elastic Metal, and are supplied at the cost of the inferior descriptions of iron in the market. W. and T. Phillips, 25, Coal Exchange, E.C. A 63 Just published, price 4s., bv post 4s. 4s. A TCIILEY’S BUILDERS’ FRIGE BOOK JLA FOR 1870; containing:—A Complete List of the Present Prices of Builders’ Materials and Labour, and of all trades in connection with Building; Useful and Important Tables and Memoranda for Preparing Estimates. Specially arranged for the use of Architects, Builders, Contractors, and Engineers, &c., &c. Compiled by a Staff of Experienced Men. To which is added, Builders’ Prices for Leeds and the West Riding Of Yorkshire (specially prepared); Tables for Calculating Wages; Builders' Measurements, with Bills of Quantities; Marks and Quali ties of Timber, and Rules for Calculating the Various Standards; on Iron as applied to Building Structures (by a Civil Engineer); Metropolitan Building Act; List of Members, District Officers, and the Regulations of the Board of Works. Atchley and CO., Architectural, Engineering and Fine Art Publishers, 106, Great Russell-street, Bedford-square, W.C., and all booksellers in town or country. B 335 rpo OPTICIANS and SHIPS’ COMPASS .1 MAKERS.—CAUTION,—Having ascertained that a certain party has been endeavouring to introduce Compasses which directly infringe our patent for the Self-compensating Liquid Compasses, we Hereby Givo Notice that Legal Proceedings will at once be taken against all persons dealing in such Compasses without our licence. J. G. WEST and Co. Makers to H.M. Navy,92 and 93, Fleet-street, London. b 24 JOHN BOURNE and Co., Engineers, tj Shipbuilders and Contractors, 66, Mark-lane, E.C. ^Estimates and prices on application. Mr. Bourne’s works on the steam engine, Ac., also supplied. B 288 J. These Cannels are extensively used in the gas works of Edin burgh, where the illuminating power of the gas is the highest in Britain. The yield per ton is 12,573 cubic feet, illuminating power 33 8 standard candles; coke per ton 1,0461b. Steam and house coal of the best quality being on the list for tho Admiralty contracts Ports of Shipment, in the Firth of Forth. For prices, and other information, apply to J. and W. Romans, 53, Frederick-stieet, Edinburgh; and 1, Walbrook, Mansion House, London, and at the Crown Wharf, Thomas-street, Limehouse Cut, where samples may be seen. B 58 R EAL FRENCH TELEGRAPH IN- STRUMENT SPRINGS, as now required by Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, for Morse’s Ink Writing Instruments (and clocks); they are in a great variety of sizes, and of best French manufacture. As also the STEEL DRIVING BANDS for lathes and machinery; these are perfectly true throughout, suitable for all climates, stronger, cheaper, and steadier in work than leather or gutta-percha bands. Sizes lin. to 6in. wide, and 100ft. long. Particulars and prices of HARCOURT QUINCEY, Agent to Messrs. MALLALIEU and CO., 5, Bond-court, Walbrook, London. B 344 TO ENGINEERS AND STEAM USERS. MARTIN’S PATENT PISTON. Effecting a saving of 15 per cent, in Fuel, with 10 percent additional power. Address—Messrs. WILLIAMS and BOLTON, St. Helen’s Foundry, Swansea. (Patent Piston.) B 282 R UGBY PORTLAND CEMENT COM- PANY manufacture the best quality of cement for genoral engineering purposes.—Supplied by rail or canal. Rugby, Warwickshire. MR. CHARLES WILLMAN, VALUER lTl of ENGINEERING PLANT, IRONWORKS, Ac., AUC TIONEER, MIDDLESBROUGH-ON-TEES. R «70 B ogie engines and suspended WHEELS for RAILWAYS.—SMITH’S PATENT.—Apply to WM. KELSEY, Esq., 118, Cannon-street, E.C.; or FREDERICK H. 8MITH, Esq., 4, Donegal-square West, Belfast, for information, Ac. They are taken up in France and America. B 243 s PERIN’S FRENCH BAND SAWS. AMUEL WORSSAM and CO., Saw Mill Engineers are Wholesale Importers of these celebrated Saws. Revised Lists sent on application to Oakley Works, King’s- road, Chelsea, London, S.W/ PERIN’S FRENCH BAND SAWS. CAUTION. A RANSOME and CO. are the Sole • Agents in tho United Kingdom for the sale of Perin’s Cele brated Saws. Messrs. Perin and Co. consign to no other house in the kingdom. The public are therefore cautioned to send their orders direct to A. Ransome and Co., 304, King’s-road, Chelsea, S.W. B 334 Just Published, Three Pamphlets, 8vo., price Is. each. PATENTS and PATENT LAW, in three X parts.—1. So-called Patent Monopoly. 2. Statistics of Patents. 3. Policy of a Patent Law.—By Henry Dircks, C.E., LL.D.. Ae. London: E. and F. N. SPON, 48, Charing Cross. B 306 W M. WARNE and Co., Sole Manufac turers of the PATENT VOLUTH HOSE; Consolidated Emery Wheels, Improved Junction Rubber for Valves, Pump Buckets, Steam Packing, Hydraulic Rams, Gas Works, Ac. Ferru ginous Cement Packing, India-rubber Mats for doorways, baths, Ac., the Sultan's Bath Brush and Hand Emollient; the Prince of Wales’; Self-closing Pinches; the Junction Rubber Soles for boots and shoes Ac., and the Mineralized (Red) India-rubber for Valves, Ac. Manu facturers also of all descriptions of Vulcanized India-rubber Sheets Valves. Washers, Ac.; Hose Pipes, Tubing, Ac.; Waterproof and Air proof Goods, Ac. WM. WARNE A Co., 9, Gresham-street West, E.C., and Tottenham. N. A 3 c 3HEAP LATHES.—S. SMITH, 204,HIGH HOLBORN, three doors from Newton-street. A 36 W HEEL, RACK, and SCREW CUTTING SPUR, BEVEL, RATCHET, WORM, and INTERNAL WHEELS cut to any size or number of teeth alsoracks of any length or pitch. Dividing plates drilled or lined. Screws cut to any size of pitch. J. Wilkinson,Engineer, St. George’s Works, 42, late 83, St. George's-road, S.E., London. P! M ARTIN AND SON, Engineers, Iron Brass, and Malleable Ironfounders, 4, Vine-street, York-road Lambeth. In hand—Lathes, Silent Fans, Engines, Drilling Machines Ac. A 25in. Fan to be Sold, price £12, and 5in. Lathe, £7 10s Velocipedes from £5. B 204 FEET’S - VALVE TAPS (with Two Loose Discs.) FOR STEAM, WATER, AND GAS. PATENTED IN ALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. THOUSANDS in CONSTANT USE IN EUROPE and AMERICA: These VALVE Taps are admitted to be The BEST EVER USED. They may be had either IN GUN METAL OR CAST IRON, ALL SIZES, with m. or f. ends, screwed for w.l pipe, or WITH FLANGES, BIB. OR UNION JOINT ATTACHED. THE ENGINEERING PRESS ON BOTH SIDES OF THB ATLANTIC GIVE THE PREFERENCE TO the Improved Construction, Excellence of Material, and Superior Workmanship of PEST’S VALVES, over ALL OTHERS. Hundreds of Testimonials may be seen on Application. SUPPLIED BY ALL THE PRINCIPAL FACTORS, BRASS FOUNDERS, ENGINEERS, MILL FURNISHERS, AND IRONMONGERS IN EUROPE. SOLE MAKERS, WHITLEY PARTNERS, RAILWAY WORKS, LEEDS. B 27» arithmetic! Now Ready, IMPROVED METHODS OF TEACHING IT. By A. SONNENSCHEIN and H. ARTHUR NESBITT, M.A., London. First Part, INTEGRAL. 8vo. Whittaker & Co. Price 2s. 6d
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