The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, Band 2

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Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821
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 347 - ... feet an enlarged plan shall be added of any building, yard, courtyard, or land within the curtilage of any building, or of any ground cultivated as a garden...
Seite 216 - Emma flourished fair, Beneath a mother's eye : Whose only wish on earth was now To see her blest, and die. The softest blush that nature spreads Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles through heaven, When vernal mornings break.
Seite 456 - AN ACCOUNT of a NEW PROCESS in PAINTING. In Two Parts.— Part I. Containing Remarks on its general Correspondence with the Peculiarities of the Venetian School. Part II. Supplementary Details, explanatory of the Process ; with Miscellaneous Observations on the Arts of the Sixteenth Century. 8vo. 8s.
Seite 290 - The original materials supplied by himself are creditable to his observation, good sense, and benevolence. Almost every topic of general interest will be found in this comprehensive and judicious Compilation, treated in a clear and familiar manner. As a book of daily reference in the common concerns of life, it will be found to afford important assistance, and its great practical utility will, no doubt, ensure it a ready introduction, and a favourable reception, in every intelligent family.
Seite 377 - Blue vat, in which white spots are left on a blue ground of cloth, is made, by applying to these points a paste composed of a solution of sulphate of copper and pipeclay; and after they are dried, immersing it stretched on frames for a definite number of minutes, in the yellowish-green vat, of 1 part of indigo, 2 of copperas, and 2 of lime, with water.
Seite 151 - Ligature to be removed if the inflammation be considerable. -Warm diluting drinks, with small doses of ammonia or hartshorn, to cause perspiration. The patient should be well covered in bed, drinking occasionally warm wine. If gangrene threaten, wine and bark must be given freely.
Seite 155 - A Manual of Lithography ; or Memoir on the Lithographical Experiments made in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges ; clearly explaining the whole Art, as well as all the Accidents that may happen in Printing, and the different Methods of avoiding them; translated from the French by C.
Seite 297 - Troy pound, according to the two-pound weight made in 1758^ remain unaltered ; and that 7000 Troy grains be declared to constitute an avoirdupois pound ; the cubic inch of distilled water being found to weigh at 62°, in a vacuum, 252.72 Parliamentary grains.
Seite 231 - ... which the observer and the instrument are moved, is so simple and well contrived, that it can be managed and directed to any point of the heavens as readily as a three feet achromatic telescope. On the 2d of April, there was...
Seite 378 - All these colors are given, by making decoctions of the different coloring woods; and receive the slight degree of fixity they possess, as well as great brilliancy, in consequence of their combination or admixture with the nitro-muriate of tin. 1. Red is frequently made from Brazil and Peachwood. 2. Black. A strong extract of galls, and deuto-nitrate of iron. 3. Purple. Extract of logwood and the deuto-nitrate. 4. Yellow. Extract of quercitron bark, or French berries, and the tin solution. 5. Blue....

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