- Air, elasticity of, [28];
- May be partially expelled from a vessel by the application of heat, [44].
- America, steam navigation first established in, [487];
- Circumstances which led to it, [488];
- Fitch and Rumsey, their attempts to apply the single-acting engine to the propulsion of vessels, [489];
- Stevens of Hoboken commences experiments on steam navigation, [489];
- Experiments of Livingstone and Fulton, [489];
- Fulton's first boat, [490];
- The Hudson navigated by steam, [491];
- Extension and improvement of river navigation, [492];
- American steamers, [494];
- Difference between them and European steamers, [494];
- Steamers on the Hudson, [494];
- American paddle-wheels, [495];
- Sea-going American steamers, [496];
- Speed attained by American steamers, [497];
- Lake steamers, [499];
- The Mississippi and its tributaries, [499];
- Steam-boats navigating it, [500];
- Their structure and machinery, [500];
- New Orleans Harbour, [503];
- Steam tugs, [503].
- Atmosphere, [38];
- Weight of, [39].
- Atmospheric air, mechanical properties of, [38];
- Composition of, [253].
- Atmospheric engine, Thomas Newcomen the reputed inventor of, [62];
- Description of, as first constructed by Newcomen, [67];
- The operation of considered, [69];
- Not unfrequently used in preference to the modern steam engine, [72];
- Advantages which it possessed over Savery's, [73];
- Considerably improved by Beighton, [75];
- John Smeaton investigates this machine, [76];
- Brindley obtains a patent for improvements in, [76];
- Applied by Champion of Bristol to raise water, [181];
- Possessed but limited power of adaptation to a varying load, [151];
- Expedient to remedy this, [151];
- Working-beam, cylinder, and piston applied to by Newcomen, [322].
- Atmospheric pressure rendered available as a mechanic agent by Denis Papin, [38];
- Means of measuring the force of, [39];
- The idea of using against a vacuum or partial vacuum to work a piston in a cylinder, suggested by Otto Guericke, [73].
- Barometer gauge, [272].
- Barton's piston, [248].
- Beighton, his improvement of the atmospheric engine, [75].
- Black, Dr., his doctrine of latent heat, [93].
- Blasco de Garay, his contrivance to propel vessels, [16];
- The contrivance of, probably identical with that of Hero, [17].
- Blinkensop, his locomotive engine, [337].
- Blowing-box, [429].
- Blowing out, Seaward's method of, [454].
- Blow-off cocks, [452].
- Boiler, forms of, most convenient, [255];
- The waggon boiler adopted by Watt, [255];
- Furnace, [256];
- Method of feeding, [257];
- Combustion of gas in flues, [260];
- Mr. Williams's method of consuming the unburned gases which escape from the grate, and are carried through the flues, [260];
- Construction of grate and ash-pit, [261];
- Magnitude of heating surface of boiler, [262];
- Capacity of, must be proportioned to the quantity of water to be evaporated, [263];
- Water-space and steam-space in boiler, [263];
- Proportion of water-space in the boiler, how to be regulated, [264];
- Position of flues, [264];
- Method of feeding, [265];
- The magnitude of the feed should be equal to the quantity of water evaporated, [265];
- Different methods for indicating the level of the water in the boiler, [266];
- Level guages, [266];
- Self-regulating feeder, [267];
- Another method of arranging, [269];
- Steam gauge, [270];
- Thermometer gauge, [271];
- Barometer gauge, [272];
- The indicator to measure the mean efficient force of the piston invented by Watt, [274];
- The counter contrived by Watt, [278];
- Safety valve, [279];
- Fusible plugs used in high pressure boilers, [280];
- Self-regulating damper, [281];
- Self-regulating furnace invented by Brunton, [283];
- Duty of a boiler, [294];
- Boilers of locomotive engines, [351];
- Construction of the boiler of Gurney's steam carriage, [423];
- All boilers require occasional cleansing, [427];
- Gurney's method of removing crust of deposited matter in boilers, [427];
- The boiler of Dr. Church's engine formed of copper, [439];
- Boilers in marine engines, [449];
- Effects of sea-water in, [450];
- Remedies for them, [451];
- Substitution of copper for iron, [460];
- Expedient of coating boilers with felt, applied by Watt, [463].
- Booth, Mr., his report on locomotive engines, [361].
- Boulton and Watt's experiments on the horse power of engines, [288].
- Branca, Giovanni, his machine for propelling a wheel by a blast of steam, [22].
- Brindley (James) obtains a patent for improvements in atmospheric engine, [76];
- Undertook to erect an engine at Newcastle-under-Lyne, [76];
- Discouraged by the obstacles thrown in his way, [76].
- Brougham, Lord, his sketch of Watt's character, [313];
- Inscription from the pen of, on Watt's monument in Westminster Abbey, [320].
- Buffers, [404].
- Cartwright's engine to use the vapour of alcohol to work the piston, [245];
- His piston, [247].
- Cawley and Newcomen obtain a patent for the atmospheric engine, [64].
- Champion applies atmospheric engine to raise water, [181].
- Chapman, Messrs., their locomotive engine, [337].
- Chlorine introduced in bleaching by Watt, [310].
- Church, Dr., his steam engine, [439];
- The boiler formed of copper, [439].
- Coals, the virtues and powers which steam has conferred upon, [6];
- The amount of labour a bushel of performs by means of the steam engine, compared with horse power, [7];
- Constituents of, [252];
- Process of combustion, [252].
- Coal mines, apprehensions as to the possibility of the exhaustion of groundless, [8].
- Cocks, friction on, [240].
- Cocks and valves, [227].
- Combustion of gas in flues, [260].
- Condensation by injection, accidental discovery of, [69].
- Condensation in the cylinder incompatible with a due economy of fuel, [120].
- Condensing principle, circumstance which led to Savery's discovery of, [47].
- Condensing pipe in Savery's engine, [52].
- Condensing out of the cylinder, [120].
- Condensing jet, [191].
- Conical steam valves, [228].
- Conversion of ice into water, [103];
- Of water into steam, [105].
- Copying press invented by Watt, [302].
- Cornish system of inspection, [297].
- Cornish engines, improvement of, [298];
- Historical detail of the duty of, [299].
- Cylinders, Wilkinson's machine for accurately boring the insides of, [149].
- D valve, [230].
- Dalton and Gay-Lussac, law of, relating to the pressure of elastic bodies, [171].
- Dixon, Mr. The substitution of brass for copper tubes in locomotive engines ascribed to him, [370].
- Double clack-valve, [228].
- Eccentric, [225];
- Two expedients to reverse the position of, [379].
- Effect of an engine, [285].
- Elastic fluids. The law according to which the pressure of, increases with their temperature, discovered by Dalton and Gay-Lussac, [171].
- Evaporation of water and other liquids, physical and mechanical principles connected with, [97].
- Expansion of common steam, effects of, [173].
- Expansive action of steam, [159];
- Stated by Watt in a letter to Dr. Small, [157];
- Its principle explained, [158];
- Mechanical effect resulting from it, [161];
- Computed effect of cutting off steam at different portions of the stroke, [162];
- Involves the condition of a variation in the intensity of the moving power, [163];
- Expedients for equalising the power, [164];
- The expansive principle in the engines constructed by Boulton and Watt, limited, [165];
- Its more extensive application in the Cornish engines, [165];
- Methods of equalising, [174];
- Description of Hornblower's engine for this purpose, [174].
- Expansive principle, application of in marine engines, [466].
- Farey on the steam engine, quotation from, relative to Savery's engine, [58];
- His evidence before the House of Commons, [435].
- Field, construction of his split paddle, [478].
- Fitch and Rumsey, their attempts to apply the single-acting engine to the propulsion of vessels, [489].
- Flues, position of, [264].
- Fluids, of two kinds, [25];
- Mechanical properties of, [25];
- Elastic, [27];
- Experimental proof that they press equally in all directions, [41].
- Fly-wheel, [205].
- Four-way cock, [239];
- Disadvantages of, [240].
- Fuel, means of economising, in marine furnaces, [463].
- Fulton and Livingstone, their experiments in steam navigation, [489].
- Fulton's first boat, [490].
- Furnace, self-regulating, invented by Brunton, [283].
- Fusible plugs used in high-pressure boilers, [280].
- Galloway, his paddle-wheel described, [476].
- Gas, elasticity of, [28].
- Gay-Lussac and Dalton, law of, relating to the pressure of elastic bodies, [171].
- Governor, adaptation of, [209].
- Gradients, restrictions on, [411];
- Disposition of, should be uniform, [415].
- Great Western Railway, Dr. Lardner's experiments on, [408].
- Griff, proposals to drain a colliery at, mentioned by Desaguliers, [64].
- Gurney's steam carriage, [423];
- Construction of the boiler of, [423];
- His method of removing crust of deposited matter in boilers, [427];
- His experiments on common roads, [432].
- Hall, his condensers described, [458].
- Hancock, his steam carriage, [436];
- In what manner it differs from that of Gurney, [437].
- Harris, Dr., mentions Savery's engine in his "Lexicon Technicum," [56].
- Heat, effects of upon water, [29];
- Waste of in atmospheric engine, [89];
- An examination of the analogous effects produced by the continued application of, to water in the liquid state, [102];
- Radiation of, [254].
- Heating by steam brought forward by Watt, [303].
- "Hecla," experiments with the, [412].
- Hero of Alexandria, description of his machine, [12].
- High pressure engines described, [321];
- One of the earliest forms of the steam engine, [322];
- Obscurely described in the "Century of Inventions," [322];
- Construction of the first, by Messrs. Trevethick and Vivian, [324].
- Hooke exposes the fallacy of Papin's project, [64].
- Horse carriages compared with steam, [435].
- Horse power of steam engines, [288];
- Smeaton's estimation of, [288];
- Boulton and Watt's experiments on, [288].
- Howard's description of his marine engine, [464].
- Hudson, the, navigated by steam, [491].
- Hull, Jonathan, his application of the steam engine to water wheels, [180].
- Humphrey. His marine engine described, [470].
- Huskisson, Mr., death of, [329].
- Hydrogen, [253].
- India, steam navigation to, [483].
- Indicator invented by Watt, [274].
- Jeffrey, Lord; his sketch of the character of Watt, [315].
- Kinneal, description of Watt's experimental engine at, [131].
- Lake steamers, [499].
- Lardner's, Dr., experiments on the Manchester Railway in 1832, [357];
- His experiments in 1838, [406];
- Experiments on the Great Western Railway, [408].
- Leupold's engine, description of, [323].
- Level gauges, [266].
- Linen, machine for drying by steam, invented by Watt, [303].
- Liverpool and Manchester railroad, effects of the introduction of steam transport on, [329];
- Want of experience in the construction of the engines, [329];
- Death of Mr. Huskisson, [329];
- Proceedings of the directors, [342];
- Premium offered by them for the best engine, [344];
- Experimental trial, [344].
- Livingstone and Fulton, experiments of in steam navigation, [489].
- Locomotive engine, history of, [328];
- Blinkensop's engine, [337];
- Chapman's engine, [337];
- Walking engine, [337];
- Mr. Stephenson's engine at Killingworth, [339];
- Defect of, [341];
- Description of the "Rocket," [345];
- The "Sanspareil," [347];
- The "Novelty," [349];
- Superiority of the "Rocket," [350];
- Subsequent improvements in the locomotive engine, [352];
- Table, showing the economy of fuel gained by subdividing the flue into tubes, [354];
- Engines constructed in the form of the "Rocket" subject to two principal defects, [354];
- These defects remedied, [355];
- Improved by the adoption of a more contracted blast pipe, [356];
- Dr. Lardner's experiments in 1832, [357];
- Adoption of brass tubes, [361];
- Mr. Booth's report, [361];
- Detailed description of the most improved locomotive engines, [364];
- Substitution of brass for copper tubes ascribed to Mr. Dixon, [370];
- Mr. Stephenson constructed the driving wheels without flanges, [383];
- Pressure of steam in the boiler limited by two safety-valves, [402];
- Buffers, [404];
- Steam whistle, [404];
- Water tank, [404];
- Power of locomotive engines, [405];
- Evaporation of boilers, [406];
- Dr. Lardner's experiments in 1838, [406];
- Resistance to railway trains, [407];
- Dr. Lardner's experiments on the Great Western Railway, [408];
- Restriction on gradients, [411];
- Experiment with the "Hecla," [412];
- Disposition of gradients should be uniform, [415];
- Method of surmounting steep inclinations, [415];
- Steam carriages on common roads, [419];
- Difference between steam engines on railways and those used to propel carriages on turnpike roads, [422];
- Gurney's steam carriage, [423];
- Construction of the boiler of, [423];
- Escape of steam from the engines on the Liverpool road, [428];
- Blowing-box, [429];
- Separator, [430];
- Difficulties in the practical working of steam carriages upon common roads, [432];
- Gurney's experiments on common roads, [432];
- Prejudice against locomotive engines on common roads, [432];
- Not more destructive to roads than carriages drawn by horses, [433];
- Report of the committee of the House of Commons, [433];
- Weight of steam carriages, [433];
- Two methods of applying locomotives upon common roads, [434];
- Horse carriages compared with, [435];
- Farey's evidence before the House of Commons, [435];
- Risk of accident from explosion extremely slight, [435];
- Hancock's steam carriage, [436];
- In what manner it differs from that of Gurney, [437];
- Ogle's steam carriage, [438];
- His evidence before the House of Commons, [439];
- Dr. Church's steam engine, [439];
- The boiler of formed of copper, [439].
- Lunar Society, Boulton and Watt leading members in, [302].
- Marine engines, form and arrangement of, [441];
- Difference between marine and land engines, [443];
- Engine-room, arrangement of, [446];
- Boilers in, [449];
- Effects of sea-water on boilers, [450];
- Remedies for them, [451];
- Blow-off cocks, [452];
- Indicators of saltness, [452];
- Seaward's indicator, [454];
- His method of blowing out, [454];
- Method of Maudslay and Field to preserve freshness of water in the boiler, [456];
- Brine pumps, [457];
- Tubular condensers applied by Mr. Watt, [457];
- Hall's condensers, [458];
- Substitution of copper for iron boilers, [461];
- Process of stoking, [462];
- Marine furnaces, [463];
- Expedient of coating boilers with felt applied by Watt, [463];
- Means of economising fuel, [463];
- Description of Howard's engine, [464];
- Application of the expansive principle in marine engines, [466];
- Recent improvements of Messrs. Maudslay and Field, [467];
- Humphrey's engine, [470];
- Common paddle-wheel, [472];
- Defect of, [474];
- Feathering paddles, [474];
- Galloway's paddle-wheel, [476];
- Field's split paddle, [478];
- Proportion of power to tonnage, [480];
- Iron steam vessels, [482].
- Mariotte's law relating to pressure, [171].
- Maudslay and Field, their method to preserve the requisite freshness of water in the boiler, [456];
- Brine pumps, [457];
- Recent improvements of in marine engines, [466].
- Metallic pistons, [244];
- Cartwright's engine, [245];
- An improved form given to by Barton, [248].
- Mill work, Stewart's application of the steam engine to, [182].
- Mines, the drainage of, Watt endeavours to bring to perfection the application of the steam engine to, [178].
- Mississippi and its tributaries, [499];
- Steam-boats on, [500];
- Their structure and machinery, [500].
- Morland, Sir Samuel, his application of steam to raise water, [34];
- The reputed inventor of several ingenious contrivances, [34];
- His work in French upon the raising of water, [35];
- Extract from it, [35];
- Evelyn's account of his visit to, [36].
- Murray's slide-valve, [229].
- Newcomen, Thomas, the reputed inventor of the atmospheric engine, [62];
- His acquaintance with Dr. Hooke, [62];
- Acquainted with Papin's writings, [64];
- The merits of his engine ascribed principally to its mechanism and combinations, [73];
- Obtains with Cawley a patent for the atmospheric engine, [64];
- Resumes the old method of raising water from mines by ordinary pumps, [65];
- The means proposed to effect this, [66];
- First conception of the atmospheric engine, [66];
- Description of his construction of atmospheric engine, [67];
- Suggestion of a better method of condensation than the application of cold water on the external surfaces of the cylinder, [69];
- He abandons the external cylinder, [69];
- Applied the working-beam, cylinder, and piston to the atmospheric engine, [322].
- New Orleans Harbour, [503].
- "Novelty," description of the, a locomotive engine, [349].
- Ogle, his steam carriage, [438];
- His evidence before the House of Commons, [439].
- Otto Guericke, his suggestion relative to atmospheric pressure, [73].
- Oxley made the first attempt to drive water-wheels by the steam engine, [182].
- Paddle-wheel described, [472];
- Defect of, [474];
- Feathering paddles, [474];
- Galloway's paddle-wheel, [476];
- Field's split paddle, [478].
- Paddle-wheels of American steamers, [495].
- Papin, Denis, conceived the idea of rendering atmospheric pressure available as a mechanical agent, [37];
- Description of his contrivance, [37];
- His discovery of condensation of steam, [45];
- Quotation from his work relative to this discovery, [45];
- Explanation of this important discovery, [46];
- Discovers the method of producing a vacuum by the condensation of steam, [178];
- His projected applications of the steam engine, [178];
- His proposition for the construction of an engine working by atmospheric pressure, [62];
- Abandons the project when informed of the principle and structure of Savery's engine, [62];
- His engine described, [62];
- This project nothing more than a reproduction of the Marquis of Worcester's engine, [63];
- The fallacy of his project exposed by Hooke, [64];
- His project for producing a vacuum under a piston by condensing the steam, published in the "Actæ Eruditorum," [64].
- Parallel motion, [195].
- Physical science, the rapid progress of, [8].
- Pistons, [242];
- The common hemp-packed, [242];
- Woolf's method of tightening the packing of, without removing the lid of the cylinder, [244];
- This method further simplified, [244];
- Metallic, [244];
- Cartwright's engine, [245];
- Cartwright's piston, [247];
- Invention of the indicator by Watt to measure the mean efficient force of, [274].
- Piston rod and beam, methods of connecting in the double-acting engine, [193].
- Pneumatic institution at Clifton, Watt one of the founders of, [310].
- Potter, Humphrey, his contrivance for working the valves, [71];
- Improved by the substitution of a plug-frame, [72].
- Power, proportion of, to tonnage in marine engines, [480].
- Power and duty of steam engines, [287].
- Priestley, Watt's letter to, relative to the composition of water, [307].
- Pump, an illustration of force attained by a vacuum, [43].
- Puppet clacks, or button valves, [144].
- Rack and Sector, [194].
- Railways, speed of coaches on, compared with that of stage-coaches on a common road, [7].
- Railway transport, effects of, [328]. [330].
- Railways and stone roads compared, [420].
- River navigation, extension and improvement of, [492].
- "Rocket," description of the, a locomotive engine, [345];
- Engines constructed in the form of, subject to two principal defects, [354];
- These defects remedied, [355];
- Improved by the adoption of a more contracted blast-pipe, [356].
- Roebuck, Dr., Watt's partnership with, [130].
- Rotatory motion, method of producing by sun and planet wheels, [187].
- Safety-valve not adopted by Savery, [57];
- Invented by Papin, [57];
- Description of, [57];
- First applied to Savery's engine by Desaguliers, [58].
- "Sanspareil," description of the, a locomotive engine, [347].
- Savery, Thomas, obtains a patent for an engine to raise water, [47];
- Circumstance which led to his discovery of the condensing principle, [47];
- An account of his engine, [49];
- Description of the working apparatus in which the steam is used as a moving power, [51];
- His engine described in a work entitled "The Miner's Friend," [56];
- Mentioned by Dr. Harrison in his "Lexicon Technicum," [56];
- Quotation from his address to the Royal Society, [56];
- Quotation from his address to the Miners of England, [57];
- Mentioned by Bradley in his "Improvements of Planting and Gardening," [57];
- The safety-valve not adopted by him, [57];
- The safety-valve first applied to his engine by Desaguliers, [58];
- Farey on the steam engine quoted, [58];
- Further Improvements made by Desaguliers, [58];
- Defects of his engine, [59];
- His engine applied to the drainage of mines, [59];
- Further defects of, [60];
- The first to suggest the method of expressing the power of an engine with reference to that of horses, [61];
- Failure of his engine in the work of drainage, [61];
- The tendency of high pressure to weaken and gradually destroy the vessels, [72];
- The power of his engines restricted, [73];
- The atmospheric engine superior to, [73];
- The boiler, guage-pipes, and regulator borrowed from his engine, [73];
- Proposes to apply his engine as a prime mover for all sorts of machinery, [180].
- Scott, Sir Walter, his sketch of the character of Watt, [314].
- Sculpture, Watt's invention of machine for copying, [318].
- Sea-going American steamers, [496].
- Sea-water, effects of upon boilers, [450].
- Seaward's slides, [235];
- Indicator of saltness, [454];
- His method of blowing out, [454].
- Self-regulating damper, [281];
- Furnace, [283].
- Separator, [430].
- Single-acting engine, description of Watt's, [133]. [144].
- Single clack-valve, [227].
- Single cock, [238].
- Slide-valves, [229];
- That contrived by Mr. Murray, [229].
- Smeaton, John, investigates the atmospheric engine, [76];
- Applies himself to the improvement of wind and water mills, [181];
- His estimate of the horse power of engines, [288].
- Solomon De Caus, description of the apparatus of, [17];
- M. Arago claims for him a share of the honour of the invention of the steam engine, [21];
- Republished, with additions, the work of Isaac De Caus, [22].
- Somerset, Edward, Marquis of Worcester. Invention of the steam engine ascribed to him, [23];
- Description of his contrivance, [23];
- His "Century of Inventions," [24];
- Brief account of his engine described in this work, [31];
- His contrivance compared with that of De Caus, [33];
- Many of his inventions have been reproduced and brought into general use, [34].
- Steam cannot be applied immediately to any useful purpose, but requires the interposition of mechanism, [11];
- Elastic force of, recognised by the ancients only in vague and general terms, [14];
- The power of, formerly made to minister to the objects of superstition, mentioned by Arago, [15];
- Anecdote showing the knowledge which the ancients had of the mechanical force of, [15];
- The discovery of the condensation of, by Papin, [45];
- Mechanical power obtained from the direct pressure of the elastic force of, suggested by De Caus and Lord Worcester, [73];
- Latent heat of, [107];
- The mechanical force of considered, [115];
- Watt's early experiments on, [87];
- Discovery of the expansive action of, [157];
- Expansive action of stated by Watt in a letter to Dr. Small, [157];
- Its principle explained, [158];
- Mechanical effect resulting from it, [161];
- Properties of, [168];
- Common and super-heated steam, [168];
- Pressure and temperature of, [171];
- Relation between the temperatures of common steam and its pressure and density, [172];
- Effects of the expansion of common steam, [173];
- Mechanical effects of, [173];
- Methods of equalising the varying force of expanding steam, [174];
- Method of producing a vacuum by the condensation of, discovered by Papin, [178];
- Applied to move machinery, [179];
- Steam guage, [270];
- Heating by steam brought forward by Watt, [303];
- A machine for drying linen by, invented by Watt, [303];
- Mode of escape of, from the engines on the Liverpool road, [429].
- Steam case or jacket, invented by Watt, [124].
- Steam engine, a subject of popular interest, [3];
- The effects which it has produced upon the well-being of the human race considered, [4];
- Presents peculiar claims upon the attention of the people of Great Britain, [5];
- The exclusive offspring of British genius, [5];
- The virtues and powers which it has conferred upon coals, [6];
- Water the means of calling these powers into activity, [6];
- Used in the drainage of Cornish mines, [7];
- Comparison of its power with human labour, [8];
- Investigation of the origin of, [10];
- A combination of a great variety of contrivances and the production of several inventions, [12];
- Before the discoveries of James Watt was of extremely limited power, [12];
- Invention of, ascribed to the Marquis of Worcester, [23];
- Account of Savery's, [49];
- Farey quoted, [58];
- Improvements made by Desaguliers, [58];
- Applied to the drainage of mines, [59];
- Humphrey Potter's contrivance, [72];
- Advantages of the atmospheric engine over that of Savery, [73];
- Progress of the atmospheric engine, [75];
- Description of Papin's engine, [62];
- Smeaton's improvements, [76];
- First experiments of Watt and subsequent improvements, [83];
- Watt's experiments on the force of steam at high pressure, [83];
- Watt discovers the great defects of the atmospheric engine, [85];
- Waste of heat in atmospheric engine, [89];
- Dr. Black's theory of latent heat, [93];
- Description of Watt's experimental engine at Kinneal, [131];
- Description of his single-acting engine, [133];
- Disadvantages of the atmospheric compared with the old engine, [150];
- Expedients to force the atmospheric engines into use, [152];
- Watt's exertions to improve the manufacture of, at Soho, [155];
- Efficiency of fuel in the new engines, [156];
- Hornblower's engine, [175];
- Woolf's engine, [176];
- Watt endeavours to bring to perfection the application of, to the drainage of mines, [178];
- Papin's projected application of, [178];
- Savery proposed to apply his steam engine as a prime mover for all sorts of machinery, [180];
- Jonathan Hull's application of, to water-wheels, [180];
- Steam engine used for driving water wheels, [182];
- First attempt of this kind made by Oxley, [182];
- Stewart's application of, to mill work, [182];
- Wasbrough's application of the fly-wheel and crank, [183];
- Reasons why Watt's single-acting engine was not adapted to produce continuous uniform motion of rotation, [184];
- Watt's second patent, [186];
- Valves of double-acting engine, [189];
- Condensing jet, [191];
- Methods of connecting the piston-rod and beam in the double-acting engine, [193];
- Rack and sector, [194];
- Parallel motion, [195];
- Connecting rod and crank, [202];
- Fly-wheel, [205];
- Throttle-valve, [207];
- Adaptation of the governor, [209];
- Double-acting engine considered as a whole, [216];
- Process of its operation investigated, [217];
- The eccentric, [225];
- Cocks and valves, [227];
- Single clack-valve, [227];
- Double clack-valve, [228];
- Conical steam-valves, [228];
- Slide-valves, [229];
- Murray's slide-valve, [229];
- D valve, [230];
- Seaward's slides, [235];
- Single cock, [238];
- Four-way cock, [239];
- Pistons, [242];
- Gross effect and useful effect of engines, [285];
- Power and duty of, [287];
- Horse power of, [288];
- The means whereby mechanical power is expended in working the engines enumerated, [290];
- Common rules followed by engine makers, [292];
- Duty of engines, [294];
- Duty distinguished from power, [295];
- Proportion of stroke to diameter of cylinder, [295];
- Cornish system of inspection, [297];
- Improvement of the Cornish engines, [298];
- Historical detail of the duty of Cornish engines, [299];
- High-pressure engines, [321];
- Leupold's engine described, [323];
- Construction of the first high-pressure engine by Messrs. Trevethick and Vivian, [324];
- First application of the steam engine to propel carriages on railroads, [328];
- Computation of how much corn could be saved by the substitution of steam engines for horse power, [332];
- Marine engines, form and arrangement of, [441];
- Difference between marine and land engines, [443];
- Mr. Howard's patent engine described, [464];
- Humphrey's engine described, [470].
- Steam navigation to India, [483];
- First established in America, [487];
- Circumstances which led to it, [488];
- Attempts of Fitch and Rumsey to apply the single-acting engine to the propulsion of vessels, [489];
- Stevens of Hoboken commences experiments in, [489];
- Experiments of Livingstone and Fulton, [489];
- Fulton's first boat, [490];
- The Hudson navigated by steam, [491];
- Extension and improvement of river navigation, [492];
- American steamers, [494];
- Difference between them and European steamers, [494];
- Steamers on the Hudson, [494];
- Sea-going American steamers, [496];
- Speed attained by American steamers, [497];
- Lake steamers, [499];
- Steam-boats on the Mississippi, [500].
- Steam tugs, [503].
- Steep inclinations, method of surmounting, [415].
- Stephenson, his locomotive engine at Killingworth, [339];
- Defect of, [341];
- Constructed the driving wheels without flanges, [383].
- Stevens, of Hoboken, commences experiments on steam navigation, [489].
- Stewart, his application of the steam engine to mill work, [182].
- Stoking, process of, [462].
- Stuffing-box, contrivance of, [147].
- Sun and planet wheels, method of producing rotatory motion, [187].
- Thermometers, the process of filling described, [44];
- Explanation of the principle of, [98];
- Construction of mercurial thermometer, [98];
- Method of graduating, [99].
- Thermometer gauge, [270].
- Throttle-valve, description of, [207].
- Tredgold, his remark relative to Newcomen's engine, [73].
- Trevethick and Vivian's engine described, [325].
- Vacuum, force obtained by a, [43];
- The pump an illustration of this, [43].
- Valves of double-acting engine, [189].
- Wasbrough, his application of the fly-wheel and crank, [183].
- Water, a pint of, the mechanical force produced by its evaporation, [6];
- The alternate decomposition and recomposition of, by magnetism and electricity, analogous to vaporisation and condensation, [8];
- The fixed temperature which it assumes in boiling subject to variation, [108];
- Experiments to illustrate this, [109];
- Table to show the temperature at which it will boil under different pressures of the atmosphere, [113];
- Mechanical force of a cubic inch of, converted into steam, [118];
- Discovery of the composition of, [303];
- The merit of this discovery shared between Cavendish, Lavoisier, and Watt, [305];
- Latent heat of, [101];
- Conversion of ice into, [103].
- Water tank, [404].
- Water-wheels, steam engine used for turning, [182].
- Watt (James), birth of, [77];
- His infancy, [78];
- Anecdotes respecting, [78];
- His boyhood, [79];
- Goes to London, [80];
- Returns to Glasgow, [80];
- Appointed mathematical instrument-maker to the university, [81];
- Adam Smith one of his earliest friends and patrons, [81];
- Also Black and Robert Simson, [81];
- Extract from an unpublished manuscript of Robison respecting the character of, [82];
- His first experiments on steam, [83];
- Observes defects of atmospheric engine, [84];
- His first attempt to improve it, by using a wooden instead of an iron cylinder, [85];
- His method to ascertain the temperatures at which water would boil under pressures less than that of the atmosphere, [86];
- His early experiments on steam, [87];
- His notice of the waste of heat in atmospheric engines, [89];
- His experiments to determine the extent to which water enlarged its volume when it passed into steam, [90];
- Discovers the latent heat of steam, [91];
- Learns the theory of latent heat, [93];
- His letter to Dr. Brewster, explaining the circumstances which led to the error that a large share of the merit of his discoveries were due to Black, [93];
- Finds that condensation in the cylinder is incompatible with a due economy of fuel, [120];
- Conceives the notion of condensing out of the cylinder, [120];
- Discovers separate condensation, [121];
- Invents the air-pump, [122];
- Substitutes steam pressure for atmospheric pressure, [123];
- Invents the steam case or jacket, [124];
- His first experiments to realise these inventions, [125];
- His experimental apparatus, [126];
- Difficulties of bringing the improved engines into use, [128];
- Practises as a civil engineer, [129];
- Makes a survey of the river Clyde, [129];
- His partnership with Dr. Roebuck, [130];
- His first patent, [130];
- Description of his experimental engine at Kinneal, [131];
- Removes to Soho, [131];
- Abstract of the act of parliament for the extension of his patent, [132];
- Description of his single-acting engine, [133]- [144];
- His condenser worked by an injection, [146];
- Objections attending condensation by surface, [146];
- Improvements in construction of piston, [147];
- Effected by a contrivance called a stuffing-box, [147];
- Method of packing, [148];
- Improved methods of boring the cylinder, [149];
- His letter to Smeaton on this subject, [149];
- Used black-lead dust for the purpose of lubrication, [149];
- This found to wear the cylinder, [149];
- Disadvantages of the atmospheric compared with the old engines, [150];
- Greatly increased economy of fuel, [151];
- Expedients to force the atmospheric engines into use, [152];
- His correspondence with Boulton, [153];
- His correspondence with Smeaton, [154];
- Exertions to improve the manufacture of engines at Soho, [155];
- Efficiency of fuel in the new engines, [156];
- Endeavours to bring to perfection the application of the steam engine to the drainage of mines, [178];
- The reasons why his single-acting engine was not adapted to produce continuous uniform motion of rotation, [184];
- His notes upon Dr. Robison's article on the steam engine, [184];
- His second patent, [186];
- His third patent, [189];
- His application of the fly-wheel, [205];
- His application of the throttle-valve, [207];
- His adaptation of the governor, [209];
- His double-acting engine considered as a whole, [216];
- Investigation of the process of its operation, [217];
- Eccentric, [225];
- Cocks and valves, [227];
- Single clack-valve, [227];
- Double clack-valve, [228];
- Conical steam-valve, [228];
- Slide-valves, [229];
- The waggon boiler adopted by him, [225];
- Invents the indicator, [274];
- The counter contrived by him, [278];
- The Lunar Society in which Watt and Boulton were leading members, [302];
- Invents the copying press, [302];
- His friends and associates at Birmingham, [302];
- Method of heating by steam brought forward by him, [303];
- His invention of a machine for drying linen by steam, [303];
- His share in the discovery of the composition of water, [303];
- His letter to Priestley on this subject, [307];
- Anecdote of his inventive genius, [309];
- Introduces the use of chlorine in bleaching, [310];
- One of the founders of the Pneumatic institution at Clifton, [310];
- His first marriage, [310];
- Private life of, [311];
- Death of his first wife, [311];
- His second marriage, [311];
- He retires from business, [311];
- Death of his younger son, [311];
- Extracts from his letters, [312];
- His death, [313];
- Character of, by Lord Brougham, [313];
- By Sir Walter Scott, [314];
- By Lord Jeffrey, [315];
- Occupation of his old age, [318];
- Invention of machine for copying sculpture, [318];
- His last days, [318];
- Monuments, [319];
- Inscription on the monument in Westminster Abbey from the pen of Lord Brougham, [319];
- His application of tubular condensers, [457];
- His expedient for coating boilers with felt, [463].
- Wilkinson, his machine for accurately boring the insides of cylinders, [149].
- Williams's method of consuming the unburned gases which escape from the grate, and are carried through the flues, [260].
- Woolf's engine, [176];
- Woolf's piston, [243].
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