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The Index to Transactions (Please scroll down) GENERAL INDEX Advertising puffs of early patentees, VI, 78 TRANSACTIONS, VOLS. I-XXXII Aeolipyle. Notes on the aeolipyle and the Marquis of Worcester's engine, by C.F.D. Marshall, XXIII, 133-4; of Philo of 1920-1960 Byzantium, 2*; of Hero of Alexandria, 11; 45-58* XVI, 4-5*; XXX, 15, 20 An asterisk denotes an illustrated article Aerodynamical laboratory, founding of, XXVII, 3 Aborn and Jackson, wood screw factory of, XXII, 84 Aeronautics. Notes on Sir George Cayley as a pioneer of aeronautics, paper J.E. Acceleration, Leonardo's experiments with Hodgson, 111, 69-89*; early navigable falling bodies, XXVIII, 117; trials of the balloons, 73: Cayley's work on airships, 75- G.E.R. Decapod 181-183 82*; his work on aeroplanes, 83-86*; his gliding experiments, 84; James Sadler as Achard, F. The first British locomotives of aeronaut, VIII, 66-69, 78-80*; The the St. Etienne-Lyon Railway, VII, 68-80*; aeronautical and miscellaneous note book Marc Seguin and the invention of the tubular (ca.1799-1826) of Sir George Cayley, Ex. P. boiler, by F. Achard and L. Seguin, VII, 97- 3; models of Henson and Stringfellow 116*; British railways of 1825 as seen by machines, XII, 55-6; "Antoinette", 56; first Marc Seguin, by F. Achard and L. Seguin, flight of the Wright brothers, XIV,16; of S.P. VII, 63-67; discussion, 76-80*; sugar beet, Langley, 16; Automatic control of flying XXVI,10; obituary, XXXI, 338 machines. paper by A.P. Thurston, XX, 151; The evolution of rider Planes for aircraft, Ackermann, R., patent for steering carriages, paper by A.P. Thurston, XXII, 107-15* XX, 110 Reminiscences of early aviation. Presidential Address by A. P. Thurston, XXVII, 1-6; Ackermann's prints of the Liverpool and captive flying machines, 2, 3; rubber for gas- Manchester Railway, II, 25-29 proofing balloons, XXVIII, 80, 87: F. W. Lanchester's contributions to, XXX, 228-30, Acland, Sir Henry on origin of municipal 233-4 engineers, XXXI, 191f Agricola. G., on horse mills, VIII, 33, 38; Acrefair, Denbigshire, iron works at XIII, early furnace, XIV, 68 XXIII, 4; pump, XVI, 19-20 6*; his book De Re Metallica, XXVIII, 62, 109, 187; XXIX, 93, 100; making of white Acton. Northumberland, lead furnace, XIV, lead, XXIX, 98 79, 137, 144 Agriculture- Prehistoric agriculture in Adam, E., distillation plant, XXVI, 106 Britain, paper by E.C. Curwen, IX, 36-42; Agricultural sources of mechanical Adel, Yorks, flax mill at, VI, 111 information, communication by H. Nicol, X, 115-119"'; Trevithick's steam engine for Admiralty, inauguration of steam ploughing and thrashing, VII, 45, 57; early department at, 11, 101; school founded by, cultivation of cereals, IX, 36; sickles, 37; XII, 53 mill-stones, 37-38, 97; ploughs, 38-41; field 1 systems, 39; guideway cultivation, X, 118; Allison, A. Water Power as the foundation of tillage from rails, 118; use of steam power, Sheffield's Industries, XXVII, 221-224 XXVI; 161-4, 167 Alston, R. S., on the Cruquius engine, XV, Air furnace. At Coalbrookdale, V, 2; for 14-15; obituary notice, XIX, 288 making wrought iron, IV; 104: V, 4,: 12-14; at Soho Foundry, VI, 10; at Eagle Foundry, Alston Moor, Cumb., lead industry at, VII, Birmingham, 6, 33 5, 89; XIV, 132, 134, 142, 143, 145, 147-8 Air pump, of Boyle and Hooke; XVI; 11*; Alstromer, Jonas. Came to England from of Guericke, 9* Sweden, 1707, and Swedish Consul in London, XXXI 99; travel diary (in Uppsala Airdrie. Shale carbonisation industry, V, 46; University), 99; returned to Sweden, 1723,99 gas retorts cast at, 47 Alton, Staffordshire, New Wire Company's Aire and Calder Navigation, sea-locks at mill, XV, 104-116*; memorial tablet to M. Goole, XII, 4 Brindley, XVI, 151 Airy, W., on the Sumerian mina, quoted, Alum industry in England, VII, 8; VIII, 127 Yorkshire shales, 8 Alarm, J. A. Tickell's patent, VI, 20, 36 Ambergate, Derbyshire, limeworks, XIV, 176-7 Albany Steamboat Co., VIII, 87 America, locomotive, IV, 66 Ames Albert, W. A. J., wire ropes of, XXIII, 82, 84 Manufacturing Co, testing machine XV, 175 Albion, R. G. The communication revolution, Ampere, A. M., a holograph letter from 1760-1933, XIV, 13-25 Faraday, III, 119-21* Albion corn mill, Birmingham, VI, 6 Amsler-Laffon and Son, dial indicator for testing machines, XV, 179 Aleotti, G. B., description of pump, XVI, 6*. Alexandria, Egypt planning of, II, 65; early Amsterdam, Blakey's steam engine XVI, museum at, XIV, 1 102, 106; works of P. van Vlissingen and D. van Heel, XV, 8 Alfreton, Derbyshjre, oil refinery at, V, 46 Algarkirk, Lincolnshire, woad mill, XVI, Analytical Society, founded by Babbage, 70, 73, 75, 76, 79, 80, 84, 86-92* XIV, 44 Allegheny Portage Railroad, V, 98 Ancholme River, improvements of, XII, 5 Allen, H., purchase of locomotives for United States in 1828, IV, 58, 65 Anchor manufacture in Black Country, XXIV, 23 Allen, Dr. John, patent for "principle of reaction" in ship-propulsion, 1661 XXX,18 Anderson, E. W., Development of the organ, VIII,I-18* Allen, R., railway truck, XI, 130; XVI, 22-6* 2 Andersson, Bengt Quist. Travel diary of visit Archaeology. Metallurgical Aids to to England, 1766-67, XXXI, 104 discovered Archaeology, Presidential address by C.H. secret of Huntsman's crucible steel process Desch, XXVII, 121-129 1766, 104; visited Coalbrookdale and Whitehaven, 104; set up near Stockholm first Archer, G. C., beam engine, XXVII, 32 steel foundry outside England, 104 Archimedes, mechanical and engineering Angell, W. G., wood screw making machine investigations of, II; 62-66, pump of, XVI, 1; of, XXII, 85 screw-pumps in windmills, XXV, 201, 205; screw unknown in China, XXIX, 158 Angerstein, Reinhold. Visit to Bristol brassworks XXV, 45, 48; travel diary of visit Archimedes steamship, XX, 30-2 to England, 1753-55, XXXI, 102; first Director of Steelworks in Jernkontor, Architecture. Charles Auguste de Coulomb: Sweden, 103 ; second journey , to West of a bicentenary appreciation of a pioneer in England, 103; third journey, to north of the science of construction, paper by S. B. England, 103 Hamilton, XVII, 27-49* Angle iron, rolling, VIII, 54, 55 Archives, British Transport Commission's Anglesey, tide mills in, XIX, 19, 21 archives, XXX, 261 Anstey, H. C., on the New Wire Co., Argant, A., hydraulic ram of, XVII, 74-81* Cheadle, XV, 113; note on memorial tablet to M. Brindley, XVI, 151 Ariconium, Glos., early iron making at, VI,46 Antony, Cornwall, tide mill at, XIX, 17, 27* Aristotle, his treatment of mechanical Appert, N., invents food preserving process, problems, II, 62; on magnetism, XIV, 185, XV, 82 186; on physical science XXVIII, 107; translation of his work into Italian, XXVIII, Appletreewick lead mines, Yorks., VII, 86 113 Appold, J. G., development of the centrifugal Arkengarthdale lead mines, Yorks., VII, pump in England, XXVIII, 83, 195-8; 83-86 Turbine pump, XXX, 159, 170, 171 Arkwright, Sir Richard. And cotton Apuleius, refers to cloth fulling, XII, 32 spinning, I, 56-62*, VI, 162, 163*, VII, 13;invention of roller drawing, I, 58*, Aqueducts, Roman, II, 63; Croton, XI, 112- VI,163*; his machines at the Science 3, 118; Mersey, XII, I; Pont Cysylltau, XIII, Museum, I, 60; buried at Cromford, Derby, 18-19, 44; XXVIII, 47; Chirk, 18, 44 61; transcript of letter to Strutt, 63-64; Richard Arkwright, paper by F.Nasmith, Arago, D. F., his remarks on T. Savery 1 XIII, 51-53; cotton machinery of, XIV, 8; quoted, III, 97 cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, 173; reference to Hargraves, XXVIII, 142, 146; Arch construction, Wren and Hooke on, cotton machinery in Science Museum, 209; XIV, 34-37*; Gregory's catenaria, 36-37 association with Jedediah Strutt, XXX, 179, 189 3 Armstrong, Joseph, of G. W. R. Swindon, Arts, Society of, premium for invention of XXX, 1, 11 spinning machine XXVIII, 144 iron works, Sussex, I, 33 Armstrong, Sir W. G., ironworks of, XXV, 76, 80 Ashdown Forest, Sussex, iron founding at, XIX, 37, 38 Arnold and Co., J ., silk weaving works of, at Norwich, VI, 198 Ashford, Kent: Henwood pumping station; XXXI, .312; railway works, .312 Arnott, N., hot-water heating system of, XXI, 104-5*; Thermostat, XXV, 56 Ashford, Derbyshire, marble sawing and working at, XIV, 17.3 Arsenal, Royal, installation of machine tool at Woolwich 1842-57, XXXI, 186; The Ashgill Head, Durham, lead mines at, XIV, development of engineering at the Royal 144 Arsenal, paper by Brigadier 0. F. G. I Hogg, XXXII, 29-42* Ashley, Henry, his work on river navigation, XXIX, 40 Artillery. Gun-making handicrafts, paper by C.