Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 183

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Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59. Cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]
 

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Page 666 - January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, will, as soon as possible after this date, be transmitted to the Committee of Judges. 3. The Board of Managers of THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE shall, before the first day of January, one thousand...
Page 390 - ELLIS ADDING-TYPEWRITER Awarded the John Scott Medal by the City of Philadelphia on the recommendation of The Franklin Institute Engineers will find this machine is unequalled for writing and performing all arithmetical calculations. It is a high speed Typewriter and a high speed Adding Machine. It is a nine bank machine useful for all kinds of commercial work as well as for Engineering work. For particulars address ELLIS ADDING-TYPEWRITER CO. 338 ELIZABETH AVENUE NEWARK, NJ Tour courtesy ID mentioning...
Page 110 - At the time of his death, he was the senior member of the firm of Nixon, Walker, & Co., shipping merchants, composed of himself, his only son Henry Nixon, and Mr.
Page 390 - Board of Directors of City Trusts, of the City of Philadelphia, to THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE.
Page 635 - ... 80 per cent, by very deep black glasses, and (4) about 60 per cent, by greenish-yellow glasses. At higher temperatures these data would be somewhat different...
Page 530 - Institute and expressing a willingness to further the same may become a member when proposed by a member in good standing and elected by the Board of Managers. Terms. — Resident members pay Fifteen Dollars each year. The payment of Two Hundred Dollars in any one year secures Life Membership, with exemption from annual dues. Stock. — Second-class stockholders pay an annual tax of Twelve Dollars per share, and the holder of one share is entitled by such payment to the privileges of membership....
Page 390 - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Page 653 - I am a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Page 569 - England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest colourproducing country in the world ; nay, by the strangest of revolutions, she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan, and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.
Page 38 - Aviator's clothing. Much is still to be done in devising non-inflammable and protective clothing for aviators. This question is intimately connected with personal armor and safety in case of fall.

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