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Rh 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.

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.

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.