Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, Volume 12Newton and Son, 1866 - Inventions |
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... chamber , so constructed as to admit of the introduction or entrance of water therein , when the gas is required to be generated . Fig . 1 , Plate I. , is a vertical section of the simplest form of apparatus to be used at sea , and ...
... chamber , so constructed as to admit of the introduction or entrance of water therein , when the gas is required to be generated . Fig . 1 , Plate I. , is a vertical section of the simplest form of apparatus to be used at sea , and ...
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... chamber L , containing water , which is introduced therein by the lateral pipe and mouthpiece 7. The lower end of the tube K , dips into the water in the chamber L , and , when the wire F , is withdrawn , the water rises up the tube K ...
... chamber L , containing water , which is introduced therein by the lateral pipe and mouthpiece 7. The lower end of the tube K , dips into the water in the chamber L , and , when the wire F , is withdrawn , the water rises up the tube K ...
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... chamber A , and a disc of lead E , is soldered thereon . Through this disc , a wire F , passes , and enters a cock or stopper G , into which it is firmly secured ; its outer end is connected to a string . The lower chamber s , is made ...
... chamber A , and a disc of lead E , is soldered thereon . Through this disc , a wire F , passes , and enters a cock or stopper G , into which it is firmly secured ; its outer end is connected to a string . The lower chamber s , is made ...
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... chamber above the water , escapes through an exhaust - pipe into the meter ; the bottom of this pipe is effectually closed against a return of gas by being submerged a little below the true water level . The hole communicating between ...
... chamber above the water , escapes through an exhaust - pipe into the meter ; the bottom of this pipe is effectually closed against a return of gas by being submerged a little below the true water level . The hole communicating between ...
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... chambers , for improvements in open fire - places and in their flues . 1048. William Bate , of Wolverhamp ton , for improvements in attaching knobs to spindles of door locks and latches . 1049. James Wright , of Bridge - street ...
... chambers , for improvements in open fire - places and in their flues . 1048. William Bate , of Wolverhamp ton , for improvements in attaching knobs to spindles of door locks and latches . 1049. James Wright , of Bridge - street ...
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Page 178 - ... awarded that the verdict for the plaintiff should be set aside, and a nonsuit entered in lieu thereof.
Page 257 - AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious - certainly the least creditable - is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page 259 - So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, 'Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest,' represents, or under any circumstances could represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market? - yes; but what made your market cheap? Charcoal may be cheap among your roof timbers after a fire, and bricks may be cheap in your streets after an earthquake; but fire and earthquake...
Page 259 - That is to say, he has to understand to their very root the qualities of the thing he deals in, and the means of obtaining or producing it ; and he has to apply all his sagacity and energy to the producing or obtaining it in perfect state, and distributing it at the cheapest possible price where it is most needed.
Page 258 - And therefore, the idea that directions can be given for the gaining of wealth, irrespectively of the consideration of its moral sources, or that any general and technical law of purchase and gain can be set down for national practice, is perhaps the most insolently futile of all that ever beguiled men through their vices.
Page 322 - The patentee shall furnish to said board a statement, in writing, under oath, of the ascertained value of the invention, and of his receipts and expenditures, sufficiently in detail to exhibit a true and faithful account of loss and profit in any manner accruing to him from and by reason of said invention.
Page 263 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Page 3 - Without exercise, in a marshy district, the plaiters were constantly having racking attacks of ague. The boy had the disease for three years, ending with tertian ague. Sometimes four of the family, and the mother, lay ill at one time, all crying with thirst, with no one to give them drink, and each too weak to help the other.
Page 2 - Having had to earn my own dear bread," he says, "by the eternal cheapening of flesh 'and blood thus early, I never knew what childhood meant. I had no childhood. Ever since I can remember, I have had the aching fear of want, throbbing in heart and brow.
Page 179 - ... where the consideration arises how far one machine, or a material part of one machine, imitates or resembles another, in that which is the alleged invention, it generally becomes a mixed question of law and fact, which must be left to the jury.