ENGLISH MECHANIC AND MIRROR OF SCIENCE: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED "The Mechanic," "Scientific Opinion," and "The British and Foreign Mechanic;" FORMING A RECORD OF Engineering, Building, Inventions, Manufactures, Industrial Progress, ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PRACTICAL ENGRAVINGS. VOLUME XI. LONDON: OFFICE, 31, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSAGENTS IN THE KINGDOM. 1870. INDEX TO VOL. XI., ENGLISH MECHANIC. ILLUSTRATIONS. ACCESSORIES to the microscope, 461, 613 Accidental colours, 290 Accidents, gun, 16 Accordion stand, 546 Agricultural implements, 64, 156 Air-gun, 499, 596 Air-pumps, 305, 325, 445 Allen's reaping and mowing machine, 156 American water-weed, 553 Ancient coins, 169, 219, 314 Angle, trisection of, 89, 142, 257, 329, 376 Antiquity and formation of the world, Application and theory of electricity, 26, Ash-box for locomotives, 568 Astronomical, 201, 586 Attraction and momentum, 444 Auk, the great, 125 Cocoa under the microscope, 293 Coffee under the microscope, 81 Coils: intensity, 517; medical, 189; Var- Coins, cowrie, 18; coins, 94, 118, 169, 190, Colours, accidental, 290 Columns, pressure on, 21 Combination tool, improved, 176 Combined funnel and measure, 136: com- Comet, Halley's, 77, 101 Comets and meteors, 482; comets and Compound set. Solomons's, 128 Construction of the organ, 112 Contents of iron pans, 20 Cooking by gas, 260; cooking, improve- Cornish engine, 453; Cornish double-beat Cotton-spinning, 112, 133, 183, 201, 230, 231, Cranes, wrought-iron, 443, 586, 537, 583 Crossing the Straits of Dover, 324 Curious caterpillars, 30, 244, 339, 437, 533; Cutter-bars: Holtzapffel's, 285; plan for, Cutting book-edges, 349; cutting irregu- Cylinders: boring, 396; Geneva, 139; Dividing-plate, index for, 114 Doirier's improved velocimaine, 155 Drawing for the million, 16; isometri- Drilling machine, the Burleigh, 300; drill- EAR, the, its uses and abuses, 29 Earth, the, its figure and motions, 7, 89, Eccentrics, 400 Eclipses, solar, 225 Economic lubricator, 109 Elastic boiler and tube-scraper, 492 Electro-magnetic apparatus, 185; electro- Elementary science, 78, 79, 80, 105, 154, Ellipses, 548 Ellipsograph, 448 Elliptical gearing, 397 Engine indicating, 523; engine lubricator Engines: Cornish, 453; faulty, 191; high- Eureka smut machine, 594, 595 Examination papers, Whitworth Scholar- Exhaust of steam cylinders, 40 FAIRLIE'S "Little Wonder," 205, 208 Faulty engine, 191 Feed-water heaters, 181, 369 Feeder for boiler, 204, 301 Fern case, 259 Figure and motions of the earth, 7, 89, Filtration, improvement in, 180 Fingers, mechanical, 305 Fire engines, steam, 85; fire-escape, Fires, Kapper's improved, 17 Fishermen's nets, 380 Flowers, preserving, 357 Flute, the, 411, 459, 604; flute, the Boehm, 281 Focus, 591 Fontenelle crater, 468 Formation and antiquity of the world, 314, Fortifications of Paris, 561 Fossil, coal-measure, 612 Fothergill's self-feathering screw pro- Fountain, fairy, 458, 499 Four-wheeled velocipede, 521 French mitrailleuse, the, 516 |