The Technical repository, by T. Gill, Volume 6Thomas Gill (patent-agent) 1824 |
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Page 387 - Manchester is estimated, by the lowest computation, at 1,000 tons per day. The bulk of this merchandise is transported either by the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, or the 'Mersey and Irwell Navigation'.
Page 289 - Manufacturer, in consequence of a Communication made to him by a certain Foreigner residing abroad, and discoveries by himself...
Page 290 - Now Know Ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Adolphe Nicole, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the...
Page 325 - MACHE is a substance made of cuttings of white or brown paper, boiled in water, and beaten in a mortar till they are reduced into a kind of paste, and then boiled with a solution of gum Arabic, or of size, to give tenacity to the paste, which is afterwards formed into different toys, &c., by pressing it into oiled moulds.
Page 389 - Proprietors to reduce their rates of carriage still lower than now contemplated. These coals at present pass along the Sankey Canal and down the Mersey to Liverpool, a distance of about 30 miles. By the Railway, the distance will be shortened one-half, and the charge for transit very materially reduced.
Page 386 - The importance, to a commercial state, of a safe and cheap mode of transit, for merchandise, from one part of the country to another, will be readily acknowledged. This was the plea, upon the first introduction of canals: it was for the public advantage; and although the new mode of conveyance interfered with existing and inferior modes, and was opposed to the feelings and prejudices of landholders, the great principle of...
Page 291 - TAKING wheels completely in the abstract, they must be considered as answering two different purposes. First, they transfer the friction which would take place between a sliding body and the comparatively rough uneven surface over which it slides, to the smooth oiled peripheries of the axis and box, where the absolute quantity of the friction as opposing resistance is also diminished by leverage, in the proportion of the wheel to that of the axis. Secondly, they procure mechanical advantage for overcoming...
Page 221 - In these renewed attempts to weave by steam, considerable improvements were made in the structure of the Looms, in the mode of warping, and in preparing the weft for the shuttle. With these improvements, aided by others in the art of spinning, which enabled the spinners to make yarn much superior to that made in 1790, and assisted by Johnson's machine, which is peculiarly adapted for the dressing of warps for Steam Looms, the experiment succeeded. Before the invention of the Dressing Frame, one Weaver...
Page 387 - ... time.... It will afford a stimulus to the productive industry of the country; it will give a new impulse to the powers of accumulation, the value and importance of which can be fully understood only by those who are aware how seriously commerce may be impeded by petty restrictions, and how commercial enterprise is encouraged and promoted by an adherence to the principles of fair competition and free trade.
Page 388 - But the problem is easily solved. It is not that the water companies have not been able to carry goods on more reasonable terms, but that, strong in the enjoyment of their monopoly, they have not thought proper to do so. Against the most arbitrary exactions the public have hitherto had no protection, and against the indefinite continuance or recurrence of the evil, they have but one security...