Calendar: 1863-1864 Page 137

APPLIED SCIENCES 137 Enginemen and Firemen Cornish Pumping Engine Double- beat Valve Tappet Motion Cataract Motion Duty of Engine Superheated Steam Marine Engines Blowing Engines Traction Engines Propellers -Various Forms of Paddlewheels Course of Float-boards through the Water Feathering Floats Screw Propellers Shaft and Bearings Water Wheels and Turbines -Undershot Overshot Breast Ventilating Buckets Poncelet's Wheels Fourneyon's Tur- bines Flour Mills -Wind Mills Floating Mills Buhr Stones Dressing Lighthouses and Lights Reflectors Dioptric Catadioptric Lights Telegraph Semaphore Electric Needle Dial Post Insulators Railway Contrivances and Railing Stock -Points Crossings Switches Water Cranes Tanks Turntables Traversers iirnals Wheels Axles Buffers Springs Carriages Waggons Trucks for Timber and Stone These Lectures are intended to add knowledge of Practice to knowledge of the Theory taught by the other Professors In order to attain this object Machines are not only described in general terms but their various details and the design of each particular construction are illustrated and explained by drawings and models Great advantages are afforded to the Students in this Department by Directors of Works and by Manufacturers in the neighbourhood of London who from time to time kindly consent to grant the Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery permission to visit their Works accompanied by limited number of Students For these visits diligent Students are selected who show by their application and general industry that the explanations given them are likely to increase their powers of observation judgment and invention Fee for Occasional Students 21 2s per term or 51 5s per annum