Group XVIII.— Civil Engineering, etc.
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GROUP XVIII.
Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture.
Building Materials; Processes and Apparatus 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-piles, 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 Superstructure, 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, See.). Models and Plans of Viaducts, Bridges, and Aqueducts, See. Plans, Models, and Drawings of Public Buildings, Dwelling-houses, Barracks, Penitentiaries, Prisons, and Hospitals, Schools ani> Theatres, Labourer’s Cottages ; Apparatus for Lifting and Moving Heavy Weights in Buildings, as Lifts, See. ; Plans and Models of Cheap Dwelling-houses; Tools and Implements of Artisan Builders. Apparatus and Inventions for Health, Comfort, and Convenience in Buildings (for Lighting, Water Supply, Drainage, Waterclosets, Lightning Conductors, &c.). Agricultural Engineering; Plans for Culture, Fencing, Draining; Farm Buildings ; Buildings for Cattle Breeding ; Stores, Stables, Manure Tanks, &c. Industrial Buildings ; Spinning Mills, Weaving Mills, Grinding Mills ; Distilleries, Breweries, Sugar Manufactories ; Warehouses, Saw-mills, and Docks, &c.
BICKFORD, SMITH & COM- | PANY, Tuckingmill , Cornwall. — Patent i Safety Fuses for blasting in mines, quarries, I &c. (680) j
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. (b8i)
(See also Group XIIJ.)
HEINKE & DAVIS, 2, Brabant Court, Philpot Lane, London. — Improved Diving Apparatus complete ; Electric Lamp for sub-marine uses. (682)
AVELING & PORTER, Rochester, and 72, Cannon Street, London. —Steam Road Roller. (484)
(See also Groups XIII. and XIIla.)
SAXBY & FARMER, Canterbury Road, Kilburn, London. —Railway Junction Model; Interlocking Railway Points and Signals; Level Crossing Gates; Facing Point Locks; 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 Appliances, Hydrants, Fire-extinguishing Apparatus, 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 class 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 Springtide, 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