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Page 161 - Memoirs and accounts of the Works and Inventions of any of the following Engineers : — Sir Hugh Middleton, Arthur Woolf, Jonathan Hornblower, Richard Trevithick, William Murdoch (of Soho), and Alexander Nimmo. Original Papers, Reports, or Designs, of these, or other eminent individuals, are particularly valuable for the Library of the Institution. The communications must be forwarded, on or before the 30th of April, 1851, to the house of the Institution, No.
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Page 60 - ... at the same time that the other pound of chalk, being deprived of the extra seven ounces of carbonic acid that kept it in solution, re-appears. Both pounds of chalk will be found at the bottom, after subsidence. The...