A WORK ORIGINALLY UNDERTAKEN IN THE YEAR 1794, AND STILL CARRIED ON WITH
A VIEW TO COLLECT, RECORD, AND BRING INTO PUBLIC NOTICE, THE

USEFUL INVENTIONS OF ALL NATIONS.

NEW SERIES.-VOL. XVIII.

July-December, 1842.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
BY ALEX. MACINTOSH, 20, GREAT NEW STREET;
AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS'
HALL COURT; J. WEALE, HIGH HOL BORN; AND

G. HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE.

Plate I. John Edwards's Patent for Improvements in giving

Signals on Railways—Moses Poole's Patent for Improve

ments in Fire-arms. Plate II. Wright's Patent for Improvements in Apparatus for

Dragging or Skidding Wheels of Wheeled Carriages
Duclos' Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of
Copper-M‘Evoy's Patent for Improvements in Fastenings

for Bands, Straps, and Parts of Wearing Apparel. PLATE III. Stevens's Patent for certain Improvements in

Apparatus for Propelling Boats and other Vessels on Water -Garnett and Williams's Patent for an Improved Method of Manufacturing Salt from Brine-Brockedon's Patent for Improvements in retaining Fluids in Bottles—Mortimer's Patent for Improvements in Covering Ways and Surfaces,

and in Constructing Arches. · Plate IV. Samuel and John Lawson's Patent for Improve

ments in Machinery for Spinning, Doubling, and Twisting Flax, Wool, Silk, Cotton, and other Fibrous SubstancesWilliam Davis and George Kinder's Patent for certain Improvements in Machinery for Dressing and Cleansing Woollen Cloths-Robert Stirling Newall's Patent for Im

provements in the Manufacture of Flat Bands. Plate V. Moses Poole's Patent for Improvements in Steam

Baths and other Baths— William Burge's Patent for Improvements in Propelling Vessels— Williain Chesterman's Patent for Improvements in Filtering Liquids—John Burnell's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Leaves or Sheets of Horn, commonly called Lantern

Leaves, and in the Construction of Horn Lanterns. Plate VI. Theodore Frederick Strong's Patent for certain

Improvements in Locks and Latches. PLATE VII. Edward Foard's Patent for Improvements in

Supplying Fuel to Fire-places, &c., &c., to consume Smoke. Plate VIII. John Hall's Patent for Improvements in the

Construction of Boilers for Generating Steam, and in the application of Steam to Mechanical Power-Job Cutler's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of the Tubular Flues of Steam-boilers-James Stewart's

Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Castors. Plate IX. Owen Williams's Patent for Improvements in

Propelling Vessels-Josiah Taylor's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Lamps-Jonathan Guy Dashwood's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Taps and Cocks— William Carron's Patent for Improve

ments in the Construction of Clogs and Pattens. Plate X. Joseph Atkinson's Patent for Improvements in

Thrashing and Winnowing Machines—John Peter Booth's
Patent for a Fabric applicable to Quilts, Coverlets,
Wadding, &c.—Edward Law's Patent for Evaporation and
the Manufacture of Salt- Francis Marx's Patent for Im-