INDEX. 
A. 
PAGE 
‘ Abortion of the Young Steam Engineer’s 
Guide’ 
43 
Achard 
30 
Agricultural purposes, engines for 
282 
Air 
86 
— and steam mixed 
. 84, 86 
— engine 
8 
— motion of 
87 
— pump . 24, 25, 86, 167, 170, 190 
proportion of 
167—170 
power required to work 
170—172 
rods 
242 
— for fires 
119, 120 
— flues 
134 
— regulator 
138 
Alcohol vapour, force of . 30, 
32, 39, 72 
engine 
34 
latent heat of 
. 53, 55 
effect as fuel 
109 
Ammonia 
55, 79, 82 
Amonton’s engine 
. 8, 16 
Apparatus for boilers 
135 
Arsberger’s, Professor, experiments on 
high 
pressure steam 
. 71, 72 
Ash pit . 
115 
Atlantic steam navigation 
App. 101 
remarks on 
App. 24 
Atmosphere, pressure of 
. 80, 89 
Atmospheric engine 9, 10, 23, 24, 36, 96, 149, 185 
effect of . 
33, 34, 36 
improved 
. 40, 189 
piston 
216 
Austen, Capt. Horatio 
App. 82 
Ayre’s, Richard, contrivance for preventing 
engines from running off a railway 403 
B. 
PAGE 
Banks, John . . .33 
Baldock, Lieut., his form of steam journal 
. . . App. 31—39 
’s memoir of H. M. steam ship the 
Medea . . App. 80—100 
Barlow, P., of the Royal Military Academy, his 
reports of experiments on steam vessels 
App. 63, 64 
Barlow, P. W., on steam vessels 
App. 40 
Barton’s piston 
219 
stuffing boxes 
222 
Beale, J., his rotary engine (Plates 71, 72) 401 
Beam, working 
. 10, 20 
angular movement of limited 
241 
strength of 
242 
Beauty essential to perfect engines 
202 
Beighton, Henry . 
12 
Belidor, Bernard . . 15, 210,211, 215 
Bell, Henry 
. 44, 45 
steam navigation in Britain success- 
fully introduced by 
45 
Berenice, Hon. East India Company’s vessel 
(Plates 70 A, 70 B, 95, 96) 
400, 471 
Bettancourt 
32, 63, 211 
Bevan, B., experiment by 
294 
Black, Dr. Joseph . 
. 21, 49 
’s definition of latent heat 
. 21, 48 
capacity for heat 
21 
Blake, Francis 
18 
Blakey, John 
. 24, 128 
Blowing through . 
199 
machines . 
281 
Boats, steam . .14, 
31, 313, 316 
steam engines for 
312, 313 
canal 
294