The Register of arts, and journal of patent inventions, ed. by L. Herbert, Volume 1

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Luke Hebert
1828
 

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Page 182 - winter, which answered so well as * Keelson, pronounced kelson, a piece of timber forming the interior of the keel, being laid upon the middle of the floor timbers immediately over the keel, and serving to bind and unite the former to the latter, by means of long bolts driven from without, and clinched
Page 284 - Dissolve, in an iron kettle, one part of pearlash in about eight parts of water; add one part of seed or shell lac, and heat the whole to ebullition. When the lac is dissolved, cool the solution, and impregnate it with chlorine, till the lac is all precipitated.
Page 307 - in order to command a better view of the irruption ; and seeing that there was no possibility of their opposing the water, I ordered all the men in the frames to retire. All were retiring, except the three men who were with me, and they retreated with me. I did not leave the stage until
Page 263 - (as seen in Fig. 2), with an iron door. The pipes extend from the cylindrical reservoir of water at the bottom to the cylindrical chamber for steam at the top, forming a succession of lines something like a horse-shoe turned edgeways. The steam enters the " separators" through large pipes, and is thence conducted to its proper
Page 263 - the orifice for filling the tank: this is done by means of a flexible hose and a funnel, and occupies but a few seconds. Explanation of letters of reference in Fig. 2, which exhibits a back view of the carriage, and the perches that support the machinery, not here introduced, a the furnace door; c
Page 105 - is a little convex from the edge to the centre, as exhibited in the annexed section at b, and that of the upper stone a little more concave: so that they are farthest from one another in the middle, and come gradually nearer towards the edges. By this means,
Page 234 - in which he makes a little charcoal fire : a small bamboo blowpipe, with which he excites the fire, a short earthen tube or nozle, the extremity of which is placed at the bottom of the fire, and through which the artist directs the blast of the blowpipe;
Page 26 - lock. On one end of the shaft, 7, is one of a pair of bevil wheels, the other being on the fore axle, which wheels are in the same proportion to one another as the fore and hind wheels of the carriage are, and this causes their circumference to move
Page 14 - considered as proceeding from a plant which formerly grew there. But even should we admit the possibility that these kinds of earth may contain clover seed, this opinion cannot be obtained'in some parts of East Friesland, where wild clover is made to grow by strewing pearl ashes on peat marshes.—New Monthly Mag.
Page 105 - are cut perpendicularly on one side, and obliquely on the other, into the stone, which gives each furrow a sharp edge, and in the two stones they come, as it were, against one another like the edges of a pair of scissors, and so cut the corn, to make it grind the easier when it falls upon the places between the

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