Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Volumes 41-42 |
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Page 50 - ... wood, such depressed part will again rise to its original level by subsequent immersion in water. " The wood to be ornamented having first been worked out to its proposed shape, is in a state to receive the drawing of the pattern; this being put...
Page xxix - We select from their book the following premium, which has appeared for several successive sessions, and may be esteemed a fair specimen of the whole : — " No. 244. To the person who shall invent and produce to the Society, a machine for raising coals, ore, &c. from mines, superior to any hithero known, or in use, and which shall produce the effect at less expense — the Gold Medal, or Fifty Guineas.
Page xxxiv - Society a cheap and portable drag, or other machine, superior to those now in use, for the purpose of taking up, in the best and most expeditious manner, and with the least injury, the bodies of persons who have sunk under water ; — the Gold Medal, or Thirty Guineas.
Page 97 - Paris, made thin, due care being taken that the plaster be nicely pressed into all the interstices of the mould, by means of a camel-hair brush. As soon as the plaster has set, the warmth thus produced softens the wax, which, in consequence of the moisture of the plaster, is prevented from adhering to it, and with a little dexterity it may be rolled up, parting completely from the cast, withoutinjuring it in the least.
Page xiv - To the person who shall discover to the Society the cheapest and most effectual method of raising water in quantities sufficient to be beneficially employed for the purpose of irrigating land, superior to and cheaper than any other method now in use ; — the Gold Medal, or Fifty Guineas. A model, on a scale of one inch to a foot, with...
Page xiii - It is expected, that the candidates lurnith accurate accounts of the symptoms and cure of the disease, together with the imputed, cause thereof, and the actual or probable means of prevention, which...
Page xxxv - Society a mode of obviating tbe prejudicial effects that attend the operation of pointing needles, by grinding them dry, during which the particles of grindstone, dust, and steel, being thrown into the air, and received with, it into the lungs, occasion asthma, consumption, and other painful disorders; the gold medal, or thirty guineas.
Page xxxviii - Colony, in which the same has been raised, to be produced to the Society, on or before the last Tuesday in February, The Society particularly direct the attention of the public to the Phormium Tenax, or New Zealand Flax.
Page 33 - The above-written account constitutes the whole of my improvements so far as is required by the Society, but not the whole of the advantages gained by my invention. For instance, the durability of the grate-bars by the admission of air through them. I may add, that I examined my own yesterday, and I do not find them any worse, although they have been in use since the beginning of October last.
Page xiv - ... raised, to be produced to the Society on or before the first of March, 1804.