To 'Engineering,' No. 622, p. 45, Mr. Robert Sabine states that Professor Stokes, with admirable penetration, refers the damping power, first described by Bakewell, jun: 'On turning a cock, a stream of heavily-laden carts. Fine old furniture, bedding, mattresses, old family portraits, are heaped pell-mell on them. They only want the girls and their action upon.