JANUARY 3RD JUNE 27TH, 1857.
"It is certainly true, that as man approaches nearer to the highest end of his existence, it must constantly become easier for him to satisfy his sensual wants-that his physical existence must cost him less labour and care; an innumerable multitude of new discoveries and inven- tions be made to diversify and facilitate the means of subsistence. Nature is rude and
savage without the hand of man; and it should be so, that thereby man may be forced to leave his natural state of inactivity, and elaborate her stores; that thereby he himself, instead of a mere product of nature, may become a free, reasonable being. He does most certainly leave it; he plucks at all hazards the apple of knowledge, for the impulse is indestructibly implanted within him, to be like God. There is no salvation for man until his natural sluggish- ness is successfully combated-until he finds all his pleasures and enjoyments in activity, and in activity alone."-FICHTE.
AGENTS:-EDINBURGH, J. SUTHERLAND; BIRMINGHAM, PUCKLE AND KENDRICK; GLASGOW, W. R. M'PHUN, AND DAVID ROBERTSON; DUBLIN, HODGES AND SMITH, 104, GRAFTON-STREET; PARIS, A. & W. GALIGNANI, RUE VIVIENNE; HAMBURGH, W. CAMPBELL.
TO THE SIXTY-SIXTH VOLUME.
Abridgments of the specification | Astronomical instruments, free
of patents, 270 Accident in a dockyard, 611 Adcock's engineer's pocket book,
revolver stand for, 83 Atmospheric phenomenon, 398 Austen's machine for testing the force of gunpowder, 313
Babel, the tower of, 271 Baddeley (Mr. W.) on London fires in 1856, 171, 194 Bagot's (Dr.) nephelescope, 79 Bag, Schäfer's travelling, 466 Baker, a poem on the steam en- gine, by Mr. T., 609 Balloon, the Archimedean, 589,614 -, views from a, 561 Bell and clock for the Houses of Parliament, 31. 84. 132, 156, 252, 278, 302, 326, 374 Bending timber, 56 Bessemer's further improvements in the manufacture of iron and steel, by, 221
-'s iron process, experi- ments with, 81 Betts's capsule patent, 606 Betts v. Menzies and another, 606 Big Ben, 156
Binks (Mr. C.) on iron and steel, 534, 581 Blackburn Mechanics' Institution, engineers' classes at the, 465
Bolts, rivets, nuts, &c., a new machine for making, 433 Bonney's improved system of transmitting orders on board ship, 15
Boots and shoes, on the construc- tion of, 298
Bourne's treatise on the steam engine, 35
Bovill's flour-mill patent, 83, 562 Brakes, self-acting railway, 251 Breaking of plate glass windows, table relating to the, 82 Bridges and girders, a treatise by Mr. W. Humber on cast and wrought iron, 226
Brook and Hirst's patent for finishing yarns, &c., 606 Builders' price book (Laxton's),
Bullets, expanding rifle, 29 rifle, 324
strength of metals for, 246 Capsule patent, Betts's, 606 Carlingford's (Viscount) aërial machine, 538, 562 Cartridge paper and angular grooved rifles, 539 Cartridges, gun cotton, 254 Casting metals, Jobson's patent apparatus for making moulds for, 73 Cast-iron pipes, Daft's improve- ments in, 156 Cement (Capt. Scott's)improved, 8 Chain cable and timber testing machines, Mr. T. Dunn on, 218 Chairs, Parson's railway, 488 Webb's patent reclining, 300 Chenot's improvements in the ma- nufacture of steel, 128 Chollet v. Hoffman, registration of assignments of patents (law case), 226 Civil Engineers, Institution of, 218, 556
Clark's saucer docks for ships, 612 Clay retorts for gas making, 244,
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