The London Journal of Arts and Sciences

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Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1828
Containing reports of all new patents, with a description of their respective principles and properties: also, original communications on subjects connected with science and philosophy; particularly such as embrace the most recent inventions and dicoveries in practical mechanics.
 

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Seite 47 - London, merchant, in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for an invention of " certain improvements in boilers for generating steam.
Seite 58 - ... by their antic tricks, and interest him by the parental affection they display to their young offspring, in teaching them to select their food, to exert themselves in jumping from bough to bough, and in taking, as they acquire strength, still more extensive leaps from tree to tree.
Seite 57 - Gentleman; for certain inventions to preserve vessels and other bodies from the dangerous effects of external or internal violence on land or water, and other improvements connected with the same.
Seite 48 - Esq. ; in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain Foreigner residing abroad, for an improved method of generating Steam.
Seite 28 - Merchant, (in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad) for an invention of certain improvements in the construction of locks and other fastenings.
Seite 61 - XI, page 124. in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for certain improvements in the construction of bedsteads, sofas, and other similar articles.
Seite 102 - encircles the ultimate bounds of the inhabited earth, and all beyond it is unknown. No one has been able to verify any thing concerning it, on account of its difficult and perilous navigation, its great obscurity, its profound depth, and frequent tempests ; through fear of its mighty fishes, and its haughty winds ; yet there are many islands in it, some peopled, others uninhabited.
Seite 229 - Middlesex, gentleman; in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for certain improvements in steam-engines.
Seite 8 - ... poker at a distant object. Two images are seen, one direct and another inverted, in consequence of the change induced by the heat in the density of the adjacent air. He produced the same effect by a saline or saccharine solution with water and spirit of wine floating upon it.
Seite 58 - ... two thousand feet in circumference, measured round the principal stems ; the overhanging branches, not yet struck down, cover a much larger space ; and under it grow a number of custard-apple and other fruit trees.

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