The Patent journal, and inventors' magazine, ed. by C. Barlow and P. Le Capelain, Band 1

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Charles Barlow
1772
 

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Seite 128 - Now Know Ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Adolphe Nicole, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say...
Seite 1 - ... described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon...
Seite 188 - Metallic Casts from Engravings on Copper. A most important discovery has lately been made, which promises to be of considerable utility in the fine arts : some very beautiful specimens of metallic plates, of a peculiar composition, have lately appeared, under the name of
Seite 277 - And with regard to any new or original design for any article of manufacture having reference to some purpose of utility, so far as such' design shall be for the shape or configuration of such article...
Seite 64 - Nothing very special was noticed, during the time of dinner by the members ; but Mr Barry, of the British Hotel, who provided the dinner, and who, from the members of the club being frequently in the habit of dining at his rooms, was familiar with their constitutions, showed the committee that three times the amount of wines had been taken that...
Seite 239 - ... these means lessens its cohesion and solidity. Split timber, indeed, turns out often crooked and warped ; but in many purposes to which it is applied this is not prejudicial ; and such faults may sometimes be amended.
Seite 169 - Hainault in 1500, had a place at court under Charles V, whom he attended on his voyage to Africa. He relates in what manner he saw at Toledo, in the presence of the emperor and several thousand spectators, two Greeks let themselves down under water, in a large inverted kettle, with a burning light, and rise up again without being wet.
Seite 84 - Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by first soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle, within a large one filled with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the whole mixture; stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt.
Seite 170 - ... a considerable depth below it. Thus by letting the weight down to the bottom, the divers could, as it were, anchor the bell at any required level, or prevent its further descent if they perceived a rock or part of a wreck beneath it, which might otherwise overturn it. Also, by hauling in the rope while the weight was at the bottom, the persons in the bell might lower themselves at pleasure. Another improvement consisted in the addition of a horizontal partition near the top of the bell, which...
Seite 239 - The saws of the Grecian carpenters had the same form, and were made in the like ingenious manner as ours are at present. This is fully shown by a painting still preserved among the antiquities of Herculaneum.

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