# On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures/Index

INDEX.
​Cajeput oil, 194.
Calculations, arithmetical, 247.
Calicut, price of labour at, 2 (note).
Calico printing from cylinders, 87; from blocks, 96; embossing on, 121; watering, ib.; House of Commons' report on, 422.
Capstan, clapper of the, for conveying sound, 57.
Cards for guns, 137.
Carriages, draught of, over various roads, 301.
Casks, instrument to measure liquor in, 68, 69.
Casting, copying by, 105; iron and other metals, 106; from vegetable productions, 107; in plaster, 110; in wax, 111; bricks and tiles, 113.
Cataract of steam—engine, 28.
Caterpillars, lace made by, 158. See also Additions.
Causes and consequence of large factories, 263, c. 22; of failure in machines, 322.
Cavities, printing from, 83.
Chains, steel, 139; gold Venetian, 212.
Chambers' Journal, 333.
Chatham dock-yard, steam-engine at, 27.
Children's leaden toys, 106.
China printing on, 99; embossed, ll4.
Chinese mode of conveying cotton, 19.
Chuck, 148, 239.
Clapper of the capstan for conveying sound, 57.
Clearing-house, 173.
Clichée, 132. See also Additions.
Clock, striking, 30; alarum at Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 75.
Clockmakers, 425, 426.
Clocks, position of, 54; barometer, 73; repeating, 74; for calculating differences, 249.
Clover seed, doctored, 183.
Clyde iron works, 288.
Coal trade, 208, 296.
Coin, depreciation of, 176.
Coins and medals, 129; base and spurious, 167.
Colours, lithographic printing in, 103.
Combinations of workmen, 283, 313; amongst masters or workmen against each other, 353; in iron trade, 306; coal trade, 307; of masters against the public, 312; of booksellers, 318.
Communication between England and France, 451.
Communications by signals, 56.
Compensation to workmen, 284.
Confidence in character, 271; extent of, 272; breach of, 273; instance of, 274.
Contriving machinery, on, 318, c. 27.
Conveyance of parcels, 192; cheap modes of, 277; of letters, 334.
Copper, 200, 214.
Copper-plate printing, 84; with altered dimensions, printing from, 154.
Copying, 82; letter, 98; by casting, 105, 110; in wax, 111; by moulding, 112; in china, 114; glass, 115; in wood, 117; in horn, ib..; in tortoiseshell, 119; in leather, 122; in iron, 123; by stamping, 128; by punching, 133; with elongation, 140; with altered dimensions, 147; dies, 150; through six stages in printing this volume, 159.
Copyrights, 434.
Cornice brick of church of St. Stephano, 113.
Cornwall, machinery in, 28, 57; prices of principal materials used in mines in, 202; method of paying miners in, 307; work done by steam engine in, 341; crushing mill in, 408.
Cost of each separate process in a manufacture. 253. c. 21.
Cotton, Chinese mode of conveying, 19; machines for winding, 35, handkerchiefs, 90; comparative value of that of Java in various stages of manufacture, 255; table of the quantity produced by the stretcher from 1810 to 1832, 409; produce of, ib.; spindles used in spinning, 410.
Coulomb's experiment on porters' loads, 33.
Counting machines for carriages, 65.
Crushing mill in Cornwall, 408.
Currency, introduction of metals as, 166.
Cutting trees into planks, 77.
Cylinders, red hot for singing, 64; calico, printing from, 87.
​Damping paper for bank notes, 61.
Depreciation of coin, 176; of paper, ib.
Diamond, glaziers', 8.
Dies, copying, 150.
Difficulties opposed to the cultivation of abstract science, 454.
Difficulty in distinguishing single press lace, 185.
Dimensions, copying with altered, 147.
Diminution in value of different articles in 1812—1832, 205.
Dishes, pewter, at the court of the Sultan Bello, 2 (note).
Distinction between making and manufacturing, 163, c. 18.
Distribution of wealth, extract from the Rev. R. Jones's Essay, 3; of labour in mines, 252.
Diving vessel, 338.
Division of the objects of machinery, 15; of labour, 217, c. 19; suggests the contrivance of tools and machinery, 224; of mental labour, 241, c. 20.
Doctoring trefoil, clover, &c. 183.
Dolls' eyes, 300.
Domestic and political economy of manufactures, 163; c. 13.
Donkin's counting machine, 65.
Drawback, 275.
Drawing wire, 141_ tube, 142.
Drawings, Egyptian, 56.
Draw-plate, 141.
Dressing ores, 307.
Drilling engine, 221.
Drug trade, 189.
Durability in articles, 197.
Duration of machinery, 340, c. 29.
Duty on printing paper, 2460; on Calico printing, 422.
Earthquake at Odessa, 76; measurer, ib..
Economical principles of machinery, 163.
Economy of human time, 6; of employed materials, 78; of raw produce, 270.
Effect of atmosphere, of wheels, and of horses' feet, on roads, 301; of machinery in reducing the demand for labour, 404, c. 32; of taxes and of legal restrictions on manufactures, 414, c. 33.
Egyptian drawing, 56.
Elongation, copying with, 140.
Embossing on china, 114; on calico, 121; on leather, 122.
Embroidered net, 429.
Emery powder, 62.
Employment of materials of little value 9. See also Additions.
Engine, shoe-last making, 151; for copying busts, 152.
England, proportion of agriculturists and non-agriculturists in every hundred persons in, 3.
England and France, communication between, 451. See also Additions.
English manufacture of pins, 236.
Engraving on steel, 85; on metal, 88; on wood, 92; by pressure, 124; bank notes, 124, 125; from medals, machine to produce, 155.
Engravings of various sizes from same plate, 154.
Evaporation of water of brine-springs, 50, 51.
Exchange, money as a medium of, 166, c. 14.
Expense of printing the present volume, 256.
Experiment on degrees of force, by M. Rondelet, 5; Le Vaillant's, 23; on printing ink, 78; M. Perronnet's on brass wire, 228.
Experiments on the gun barrel, 23; on porters' loads, 33.
Explosion, reasoning on the theory of, 25.
Exportation of machinery, 437, c. 34.
Factories, causes and consequences of large, 263, c. 22; position of large, 277, c. 23; accumulation of, 279; removal of, 280; important suggestions, ib.; system, 426.
Fatigue, 32.
Flashing of window-glass, 42.
Flax, Irish, 184.
Fiints, 62.
Fluids, suspension of powders in, 62.
Fly-wheel, 21.
Fly or vane, 30.
Force, M. Rondelet, experiment on, 5.
Forces, extending the time of action of, 45, c. 5; too great for human power, 56, c. 7.
​Forestalling, 196.
Frame-work knitters, 347, 375.
France, proportion of agriculturists and non-agriculturists of every hundred persons in, 3; stereotype printing in, 94; communication with England, 451.
French manufacture of pins, 237.
——— table of logarithms, 242.
Furnaces, 288.
Furniture ornaments, 130; coach, 190.
Future prospect of manufactures as connected with science, 454.
Gas meter, 70, 378.
Gas, streams of, 64; condensed, 389.
General inquiries on observing manufactories, 160.
Gilt paper ornaments, 138.
Glasgow, table of increase of population in, 3; printing handkerchiefs at, 90.
Glass-blowing, 42, 116.
Glass seals, 115; square bottles, 116; plate, 199.
Giazier's diamond, 8
Gold and silver moulding, 126; lace, 200; leaf, 211.
Goldbeater's skin, 9.
Gold chains, Venetian, 212.
Governor of steam-engine, 27.
Gun barrels, experiments on, 23; improvement in the manufacture of, 362.
Gun cards, 137.
Gunpowder, force of, 23.
Guns, explosion of, 23.
Great Britain, comparative table of population in, 3.
Hammers, tilt, 36.
Hand, substitute for, 13.
Handkerchiefs, Bandana, 2 (note); printing red cotton, 90.
Handles, knife, 118; umbrella, ib.
Hardness of the diamond, 8.
Hardware, 190.
Harness, plated, 190.
Heading of pins, 232.
Hobnails, 13.
Hoofs of cattle, 9.
Horn, knife handles and umbrella handles, 118; enumeration of its uses, 270.
Horny refuse, 9.
House of Commons, report of the committee upon manufacturers' employment, 3; report on Holyhead roads, 60; evidence on Irish flax, 184; on the watch trade, 187; on woollen trade, 279; on artisans and machinery, 300; report on steam carriages, 337; evidence on frame-work knitters, 347; evidence on copyright act, 384; on calico printing, 422; on export of tools and machinery, 441.
Human power, additions to, 5; time, economy of, 6; forces too great for, 56.
Hydraulic press, 58.
Ice, skaters on, 38; importation of, 194
Identity of work when of the same kind, and its accuracy when of different kinds, 79, c. 10.
imitations of plants, 111; of the human body, ib.; on snuff-boxes, 117.
Increase of population in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Nottingham, Birmingham, Great Britain, 3.
Increase and diminution of velocity, 32, c. 4.
Influence of verification on price, 181, c. 15; of durability on price, 197, c. 16.
Injection, process of in tanning, 47; of timber, with tar, 48.
Ink, printing, 78; consumption of, ib.; transfer, 101.
Ink-block, 78.
Inquiries, general, on observing manufactories, 160; previous to commencing a manufactory, 298, c. 25.
Inspector, 173.
Instrument to show travelled distance, turns by the wheel of a carriage, strokes made by the steam engine, Mr. Donkin's, 65; for calendering, 66; for ascertaining the rounds of a watchman, 67; to measure liquors, 68; Mr. Henneky's, 69 (note); to measure gas, 70; to measure rain, 73; to note the position of the seconds' hand on the dial-plate of a stop-watch, 74; to ascertain the direction and intensity of an earthquake, 76; to ​produce copper-plate engravings from medals, 155.
Labour, price of, at Calicut, 2 (note); division of, 217, c. 19; division of mental, 241, c. 20; effect of machinery in reducing the demand for, 404, c. 32.
Lace, made by caterpillars, 158; (see also Additions); single-press, 185; double-press, ib.; machine for patent net, 265; embroidered, 429.
Lace trade, evidence before the House of Commons on, 185; ditto, 347.
Lace-frames, 349.
Lead, waste of, 200; pig, 214, 216.
Leaden toys, 106; pipes, 143.
Leather, embossing on, 122.
Letter-boxes, of post-office, 55.
Letter-copying, 98.
Lettering books, 95.
Letter-press printing, 93.
Letters, conveyance of, 334.
Lime, sulphate of, 51.
Linen-drapery, deceits in, 188.
Lithographic prints, 100, 103.
Liverpool, table of population in, 3; institution for the blind at, 14; signals at, 44.
Load, most advantageous for porters, 33.
Logarithms, great French tables of, 242.
London manufactures at the court of Bello, 2 (note).
Looking-glasses, 199; table of prices of, 206.
Luddites, 281.
Umbrella handles, 118.
Union of theory and practice, 453, c. 35.
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL.
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