Civil Engineeering, etc. 
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GROUP XVIII. 
Civil Engineering, Public Works, and. Architecture. 
Building Materials ; Processes and Apparates for Quarrying, Brickmaking ; Iron Girder 
Work; Preparation and Preservation of Wood; Artificial Stone, Terra-cotta Work, 
&c.; Materials and Appliances for Foundations (Pile-drivers, Screw-pües, Cofferdams, Caissons, 
Pneumatic and Diving Apparatus). Contrivances and Tools for Earth-works (Excavators, 
Dredging Machines, Apparatus for Raising, Carrying, and Transporting Earth and Materials). 
Materials and Apparatus used for Roads and Railways (Road Rollers; Railway Super- 
stmcture, Switches, Crossings, Turn-tables, Traversing-tables, Inclined Planes, Lifts; Pneumatic and 
other Modes of Propelling; Water Stations and their Apparatus, Railway Station Buildings of all 
kinds, and Systems of Railway Signals). Hydraulic Engineering Works, excluding Sea 
Works (River Works, Canal Works, Dikes, Locks, Dams, &c.) Models and Plans of Viaducts, 
Bridges, and Aqueducts, &c. Plans, Models, and Drawings of Public Buildings, 
Dwelling-houses, Barracks, Penitentiaries, Prisons, and Hospitals, Schools and 
Theatres, Labourer’s Cottages ; Apparatus for Lifting and Moving Heavy Weights in 
Buildings, as Lifts, &c. ; Plans and Models of Cheap Dwelling-houses ; Tools and Im 
plements of Artisan Builders. Apparatus and Inventions for Health, Comfort, and 
Convenience in Buildings (for Lighting, Water Supply, Drainage, Waterclosets, Lightning Con- 
duetors, &c.) Agricultural Engineering; Plans for Culture, Fencing, Draining; Farm 
Buildings ; Buildings for Cattle Breeding ; Stores, Stables, Manure Tanks, &c. Indus 
trial Buildings ; Spinning Mills, Weaving Mills, Grinding Mills ; Distilleries, Breweries, 
Sugar Manufactories ; Warehouses, Saw-mills, and Docks, &c. 
BICKFORD, SMITH & COM 
PANY, Tuckingmill, Cornwall. — Patent 
Safety Fuses for blasting in mines, quarries, 
&c. (680) 
SIEBE & GORMAN, 5, Denmark 
Street, Soho, London.—Diving Apparatus, 
from which two Divers may work at different 
depths from the same Air-Pump. Used by 
the English Admiralty. (681) 
HEINKE & DAVIS, 2, Brabant 
Court, Philpot Lane, London. — Improved 
Diving Apparatus complete ; Electric Lamp 
for sub-marine uses. (682) 
AVELING & PORTER, Rochester, 
and 72, Camion Street, London.—Steam Road 
Roller. (484) 
SAXBY & FARMER, Cantcrbury 
Road, Kilburn, London.—Railway Junction 
Model; Interlocking Railway Points and- 
Signals ; Facing Points and Switches; Level 
Crossing Gates ; and other railway security 
apparatus. (683) 
BAINES, William, Railway Plant 
Works, Birmingham.—Model of Railway 
Locking Switches and Signal Apparatus. 
(700) 
BLAKEBOROUGH, Joseph, 
Brighouse, Yorkshire.—Waterworks Appli 
ances, Hydrants, Fire-extinguishing Appa 
ratus, Gun Metal Steam Fittings, Cocks, 
Gauges, Valves, Steam-whistles, &c. (684) 
REDMAN, John B., F.R.G.S., 
Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 
25, Great George Street, Westminster.—Model 
of Royal Terrace Pier, at Milton-on-Thames, 
erected by means of Cast-iron Cylinders, 
1843-5—the pioneer of this dass of marine 
construction ; principal dimensions in feet— 
length 250, breadth 30 ; the cast-iron girders 
are 50 and 51 ft. long, and 3 ft. deep, and 
weigh 8 tons ; cylinder foundation piers 6 ft. 
in diameter; their average depth below low 
water mark at Spring tide, 12 ft., rise of tide 
20 ft.; height of structure from base of 
foundations to vane, 80 ft.; the cylinder 
foundations are all carried through the 
alluvial sands and gravels down to the solid 
chalk; the cylinders are filled solidly with 
brickwork and concrete in cement, the base 
stones being held down by central wrought 
iron through bolts. Drawings of Cylinders 
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