Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture: Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions ...

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T. and G. Underwood, 1819
 

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Seite 226 - 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 134 - 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 the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statements thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon...
Seite 163 - 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 be performed...
Seite 223 - Lieutenant Robertson, in a letter to the Honourable Captain Napier of Merchistoun, has spoken of it in the following manner : " The Sympiesometer is a most excellent instrument, and shews the weather far better than the Marine Barometer. In short, the barometer is of no use compared to it. If it has any fault, it is that of being too sensible of small changes, which might frighten a reef in when there was no occasion for it ; but, take it altogether, in my opinion it surpasses the mercurial barometer...
Seite 203 - Mange has discovered that the pyroligneous acid, obtained by the distillation of wood, has the property of preventing the decomposition and putrefaction of animal substances. It is sufficient to plunge meat for a few moments into this acid, even slightly empyreumatic, to preserve this meat as long as you may desire.
Seite 145 - London, and in every favourable situation, I preserve a large number of the young shoots, which are emitted in a proper direction in early spring by the yearling wood, shortening each where necessary, by pinching off the minute succulent points, generally to the length of one or two inches. Spurs which lie close to the wall are thus made, upon which numerous blossom buds form very early in the ensuing summer...
Seite 265 - It must indeed, be acknowledged that the explanation rests on hypothesis only ; but it is on an hypothesis, which is perfectly consistent with a copious and increasing induction of facts, all tending to establish a limitation to the proportions in which bodies combine; while the opposite explanation is at variance with this general law of chemical union.
Seite 144 - Every bunch of grapes commences its formation as a tendril, and it is always within the power of every cultivator to occasion it to remain a tendril. The blossoms are all additions, the formation of which is always dependent upon other agents : and if any considerable part of the leaves be taken off the branch prematurely, or if the vine be not subjected to the influence of the requisite degree of heat and light, the tendrils will permanently retain their primary form and office; and it is very frequently...
Seite 254 - ... tubes, to imagine, that an advantage is thus gained; and they have not been aware, that the gas, when thus treated, sustains a much more than proportional loss of illuminating power. The quantity of quicklime required for the absorption of a cubic foot of carbonic acid, or of the same volume of sulphuretted hydrogen gas, will be found on calculation not to exceed 1050 grains, or about 2| ounces avoird.
Seite 186 - ... felt myself incompetent to decide, from the want of the necessary data. It 'is to supply these data, that I have once more returned to the investigation of the subject. The objects, which I have had it in view to determine by the following course of experiments, are, whether, on the large scale of manufacture, there is a decline in the value of the aeriform products of coal, from the beginning to the end of the distillation, similar to that which takes place on a small scale; — at what stages...

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