Calendar: 1867-1868 Page 131

APPLIED SCIENCES 131 Boilers -Varieties of Boilers Construction and Propor- tion of Surfaces and Contents Boiler Fittings Methods of preventing Explosion and Collapse Rules to be observed in cases of Danger Economy of Boilers Rivetting Steam Engine -Varieties of Engines Details of Construe- tion Parallel Motion Lap and Lead of Valve Indicator Expansion Condensation the Locomotive Engine its Gene- ral Arrangement Link Motion Injector Consumption of Coke Oil and Tallow General Rules for guidance of 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 Fourneyron's Tur- bines Wind Mills -Tower Mills Smock Mills Sails Reefing and Regulation of Sails Lighthouses and Signals -Reflectors Dioptric Catoptric Catadioptrir Lights Bailway Contrivances and Boiling Stock -Points Crossings Switches Water Cranes Tanks Turntables Traversers Signals Wheels Axles Buffers Springs Carriages Wagons Trucks for Timber and Stone Telegraphs -Semaphore Electric Needle Dial Post Insulators Submerging Telegraph Cables 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 De- partment by Directors of Works and by Manufacturers in the neighbourhood of London who from time to time kindly con-