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

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T. and G. Underwood, 1818
 

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Page 80 - In the year 1730, or thereabouts, living then at a village near Litchfield, our respected father first conceived the project, and prepared to carry it into effect ; and in the year 1733, by a model of about two feet square, in a small building near Sutton Coldfield, without a single witness to the performance, was spun the first thread of cotton ever produced without the intervention of the human fingers, — he, the inventor, to use his own words, ' being- all the time in a pleasing but trembling...
Page 153 - 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...
Page 18 - Instead of making the rails or bars of cast or malleable iron, as those now in use are, they are a compound of malleable and cast-iron, so connected as to be stronger than if made of either kind alone.
Page 136 - 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...
Page 80 - Our chief view, however, in this is, to rescue from oblivion, and affix the gratitude of a nation upon a name dear to us, and unknown to those who are exalted, though perhaps unconsciously, by his genius : our parent, John Wyatt, of Birmingham. " To produce something out of nothing is a greater effort of excogitation, than to improve what is already produced. " The production, then, of a system of machinery to supersede the artless method of spinning with the fingers, may be justly classed among...
Page 45 - ... shoots, as happens with young trees. Though I arrived at this discovery myself in consequence of trying the same process with a different, view, namely, to increase only the size of the fruit, but not to force barren branches, that were only furnished with leaf-buds, to bear, this latter application being before quite unknown to me ; I will, on, that account, by no means give myself out for the first inventor of this operation; but...
Page 65 - Fabrenheit's thermometer, according to a process or processes hereafter described, and in so heating it that the greater part of the saccharine and annylaceous principles of the grain become changed into a substance resembling gum and extractive matter of a deep brown colour, readily soluble in hot or cold water. A small quantity of malt thus prepared will suffice for the purpose of colouring beer or porter, and may be used with advantage as a substitute for the colouring made of sugar, which was...
Page 110 - ... which forms the top of the lower box, are cut four oval holes, each one inch wide, and two inches long, through which the bees pass into the upper. This communication, when not wanted, is shut by a board, which moves on a nail in its centre. The small pane of glass in the top of the upper box, admits of seeing the progress the bees have made in it, without separating it from the lower one.
Page 80 - Coldfield, without a single witness to the performance, was spun the first thread of cotton ever produced without the intervention of the human fingers, he, the inventor, to use his own words, 'being all the time in a pleasing, but trembling, suspense.' The wool had been carded in the common way, and was passed between two cylinders, from whence the bobbin drew it by means of the twist. " This successful experiment induced him to seek for a pecuniary connexion equal to the views that the project...
Page 19 - The malleable part must be clean, warm, or at least perfectly " dry, when laid in the mould to receive the melted iron, which " should be poured in as soon as possible after the mould is ready " to receive it, as any damp on the malleable iron will endanger " the soundness of the cast iron part." [Printed, 4d. No Drawings. Sec Repertory of Arts, vol. 32 (second series), p. 17 ; Engineers' and Mechanics Encyclopaedia, vol. 2, p. 409 ; Rolls Chapel Reports, 7th Repbrt, p. 118: Rolls Chapel.] AD 1820,...

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