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Seite 70 - 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...
Seite 7 - Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John Watson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which...
Seite 132 - ; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Adolphe Nicole, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed...
Seite 129 - STONE": in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph Aspdin, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to...
Seite 146 - ... universal joint, at the end of an axle, turning in the bow of the ship, in order that the screw may accommodate itself to the unevenness of the waves. And I do further declare, that in order to make the boiler of a high pressure steam-engine of very light materials for portable purposes, and at the same time strong for resisting the pressure as well as for exposing a large surface to the fire, I do construct the said boiler of a number of small perpendicular tubes, each tube closed at the bottom,...
Seite 5 - Rochester ; and such was the rapid progress of gas-lighting from 1814, that all the works in these as in many other towns were in operation in the year 1819. In 1815 John Taylor obtained a patent for producing gas from ' ' any kind of animal, vegetable, or mineral oil, fat, bitumen, or resin, which is, or can be, rendered fluid by heat or otherwise...
Seite 302 - To attain these purposes, every branch which did not want at least twenty degrees of being perpendicular was taken out at its base; and the spurs upon every other branch, which I intended to retain, were taken off closely with the saw and chisel. Into these branches, at their subdivisions, grafts were inserted at different distances from the root, and some so near the extremities of the branches, that the tree extended as widely in the autumn after it was grafted, as it did in the preceding year....
Seite 140 - ... of water, which running round the piston renders the whole air-tight. By this means he avoids a great proportion of the usual friction, a very moderate degree of tightness in the packing, being in practice found sufficient to prevent the passage of so dense a fluid as water. The second part of this invention consists in causing steam of a high temperature to spout out against the atmosphere, and by its recoiling force to produce motion in a direction -contrary to the issuing stream, similar to...
Seite 302 - A few blossoms, but not any fruit, were produced by several of the grafts in the succeeding spring ; but in the following year, and subsequently, I have had abundant crops, equally dispersed over every part of the tree ; and I have scarcely ever seen such an exuberance of blossom as this tree presents in the present spring.
Seite 367 - I was very desirous to preserve these, as well as to ascertain the cause why the Peach and Nectarine, under such circumstances, fail to acquire maturity. The most probable cause, according to my hypothesis, appeared to be the want of the returning sap, (which the leaves, if existing, would have afforded), and the consequent morbid state of the branch ; I therefore endeavoured to derive the necessary portion of returning sap from another source.

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