INDEX.
Abstract sciences, difficulties opposed to the cultivation of, 454.
Accumulating power, 20, c. 2.
Accuracy of work executed by tools, 79; by turning, 81.
Action of forces, 45, or c. 5; difficulty of simultaneous, 56.
Additions to human power, 4.
Advantages arising from machinery and manufactures, the source of, 1.
Advertisements, the cost of, 261.
Advice to projectors, 328.
Agriculturists and non-agriculturists, proportion of each in every hundred persons in Bengal, Italy, France, and England, 3.
Alarums, 75.
Alpnach, slide of, 339.
American method of deepening rapids, 52.
pin-making machine, 239.
almanack, note to, 278.
Apothecaries, charges of, 189.
Application of machinery, proper circumstances for the, 329, c. 28.
of heat for removing the filaments of cotton in muslin and patent net, 64.
Arithmetical calculations, 247.
Artisans and machinery, report of House of Commons on, 300.
Atmosphere, effect of, on roads, 301.
Automatons, 45.
Bandana handkerchiefs, 2 (note).
Bank notes, wetting paper for, 61; engraving of, 124; signing of, 223; methods for preventing forgery of, 318.
Banking-houses, 172.
Bark, Peruvian, 461.
Barometer clock
Bar-iron, price of in various countries, 214; evasion of duty on, in America, 418.
Bengal, proportion of agriculturists and non-agriculturists in every hundred persons in, 3.
Birmingham, increase of population in, 3; prices of various articles at, in 1818–1830, 201; ditto in 1812 and 1832, 202.
Blanket, in printing, 78.
Bleaching, 49.
Blocks, printing from, 92; calico, printing from, 96.
Blow-pipe, 115.
Boats, skimming, 39; employed in rapids, 52; tug, 53, 278.
Bobbin-net trade, 425.
Bobbin carriers, 426.
Boilers, punching iron plate for, 134.
Books, lettering, 95.
Booksellers, 380; monopoly of, 397.
Bottles, square glass, 116.
Boot-laces, tags for, 34.
Box, top of, turned in lathe, 79.
Brass tube drawing, 142.
Brass wire drawing, M. Perronnet's experiment, 228.
Breakwater at Plymouth, 6.
Bricks and tiles, 113. See also Additions.
Brine-springs, 50.
British association for the promotion of science, 456.
Brome, 460.
Bronze, casting in, 107.
Buhl-work, 136.
Bursting of guns, 23; of steam boilers, 25.
Busts, engine for copying, 152.
Buttons, 131.
