INDEX.
241
PAGE
Motion of air and vapour . . 87
steam boat engines . 308
Moura, De, M. . . .18
Murdoch, William . . 38
’s slide . ■ . . 208
Murray, Matthew . . .37
’s slide . . 207, 208
’s damper . . .37
’s portable engine . . 38
N. / "
Nancarrow, John . . .37
Napier, Robert, Glasgow . .471
Navigation, steam 14, 31, 44, 45, 46, 288
Newcomen, Thomas . . 9
’s engine . 10, 11, 23
water applied to the out
side of the cylinder for condensing the
steam of . .9
injection inside discovered
by accident
apparatus for opening and
closing valves invented .
Nimmo, Alexander
Nitric acid
Noncondensing engines
power of
11
140
55
173, 174
175, 176, 179
fuel and water for 105, 177
expansive . 179
fuel for expansive 180
best force of steam 182,183
O.
Oars
297
Oil
273
Oil gas vapour
80
Oil cup .
212
Oliver, Capt.
App. 65, 78
Ores, engines for drawing
279
P.
Packing
Paddle wheels
action of
216
300
App. 121
PAGE
Paddle wheels, motion of . App. 119
centre of pressure of — 44
with fixed floats . — 124
with feathering floats — 145
floats turning on radial axes ibid
— horizontal axes
— 146
oblique floats — 143
improved mode of connecting
Morgan’s wheel to engine App. 164, 165
cycloidal, invention of, due to
Mr. Field . . — 53, 140
description of, as ap
plied to the Great Western App. 53
coefficients for calculating the
action of
195
horses’ power expended on
entire
zontally
vertically
decay of
varnish for
by P. W. Barlow
by A. A. Mornay
Buchanan’s
Cave’s
common wheel
cycloidal
Field’s
——-— Morgan’s
Oldham’s
Perkins’s
Stevens’s
vertically acting
table of velocity of centre of
—
192
— hori-
.
ibid
— on,
—
192
—
29
—
30
—
40
—
117
—
146
—
161
App. 124,
193
—
53
—
140
—
156
— 152,
193
—
144
—
110
—
193
effort
— 38, 39
ralty steamers
experiments on Admi-
experiments exhibiting
43
the ratio of the velocity of the wheel
and vessel . . — 47
comparison of the lost
power in the vertical and the common
wheel . . — 52
