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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