The London journal of arts and sciences (and repertory of patent inventions) [afterw.] Newton's London journal of arts and sciences, Volume 12William Newton 1860 |
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... effected by keeping them some days immersed in carbonic acid gas , or by confining them in an air - tight vessel , and withdrawing the common air from them by means of an ordinary air - pump . When a sufficient vacuum has been attained ...
... effected by keeping them some days immersed in carbonic acid gas , or by confining them in an air - tight vessel , and withdrawing the common air from them by means of an ordinary air - pump . When a sufficient vacuum has been attained ...
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... effected either in a Congreve or hydraulic press . After the embossing , there remains two more operations to make , -the stoning or stuffing up of the embossed pattern , and the varnishing . The stuffing up is performed with a large ...
... effected either in a Congreve or hydraulic press . After the embossing , there remains two more operations to make , -the stoning or stuffing up of the embossed pattern , and the varnishing . The stuffing up is performed with a large ...
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... effected by the low temperature , named as the third property of alcohol , without injury to the integrity of the sugar present . The combination of alcohol and water found to work best consists of 60 per cent . of alcohol and 40 per ...
... effected by the low temperature , named as the third property of alcohol , without injury to the integrity of the sugar present . The combination of alcohol and water found to work best consists of 60 per cent . of alcohol and 40 per ...
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... effected in the following manner : -To aniline , or one of its analogues ( aniline is used by preference , both because it is easily obtained , and because the color it produces is , perhaps , superior to that produced by any of its ...
... effected in the following manner : -To aniline , or one of its analogues ( aniline is used by preference , both because it is easily obtained , and because the color it produces is , perhaps , superior to that produced by any of its ...
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... effected , they instantly become black . If any parts of the moulds have white spots upon them , it proves that the metal- lization is not complete on these parts ; this must be remedied by operat- ing with a brush upon these spots ...
... effected , they instantly become black . If any parts of the moulds have white spots upon them , it proves that the metal- lization is not complete on these parts ; this must be remedied by operat- ing with a brush upon these spots ...
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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 261 - The two principles being established, however, that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines only by the balance of trade...
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 351 - In the prime of life, and in the full vigour of his faculties, he displayed, whenever he rose to speak...