Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 3W.R. M'Phun., 1825 - Industrial arts |
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... Coal Mines , Finlayson's Improved Method of Paving Streets , Improved Water Trap , 225 ib . ib . ib . Improved Steam Boat Paddles , - 241 Instrument for Killing Caterpillars , ib . Horrocks ' Apparatus for preparing Warp , ib . Plan for ...
... Coal Mines , Finlayson's Improved Method of Paving Streets , Improved Water Trap , 225 ib . ib . ib . Improved Steam Boat Paddles , - 241 Instrument for Killing Caterpillars , ib . Horrocks ' Apparatus for preparing Warp , ib . Plan for ...
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... coal waggons plying upon the rail - way belonging to Messrs . Taylors , of this Colliery , and given in by us to the Highland Society of Scotland , by whom we have been awarded a premium for our inven- tion . We likewise enclose you a ...
... coal waggons plying upon the rail - way belonging to Messrs . Taylors , of this Colliery , and given in by us to the Highland Society of Scotland , by whom we have been awarded a premium for our inven- tion . We likewise enclose you a ...
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... coal gas . In many of the light - houses on the British coast , the frame in which the lamps are fixed is made to re- volve by means of clock - work , so that to a spectator , situated in the circle of which the light - house is the ...
... coal gas . In many of the light - houses on the British coast , the frame in which the lamps are fixed is made to re- volve by means of clock - work , so that to a spectator , situated in the circle of which the light - house is the ...
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... coal would appear to be the only one . In the time of James the First , many patents were granted for mak- ing iron with pit - coal , but these at- tempts , it would appear , had failed . Other patents were granted in the reign of ...
... coal would appear to be the only one . In the time of James the First , many patents were granted for mak- ing iron with pit - coal , but these at- tempts , it would appear , had failed . Other patents were granted in the reign of ...
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... coal - pit , if any of your able Correspondents would set me at rest about this query , they would much oblige , A. B. Qwery - Suppose a pile of pumps , 25 fathoms deep , with a working barrel ten inches diameter , and the pumps ten ...
... coal - pit , if any of your able Correspondents would set me at rest about this query , they would much oblige , A. B. Qwery - Suppose a pile of pumps , 25 fathoms deep , with a working barrel ten inches diameter , and the pumps ten ...
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Page 39 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 316 - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Page 311 - From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Page 317 - comprehensive " understanding. This wide ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest Fancy that ever contented itself with the office of only ministering to Reason ; and from this singular relation of the two grand faculties of man, it has resulted, that his philosophy, though illustrated still more than adorned by the utmost splendour of imagery, continues still subject to the undivided supremacy of Intellect. In the midst of all the prodigality of an imagination which, had it been independent,...
Page 343 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 319 - It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties.
Page 317 - It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his great qualities lie on the surface of his writings. But that in which he most excelled all other men was in the range and compass of his intellectual view — the power of contemplating many and distant objects together, without indistinctness or confusion — which he himself has called the discursive or comprehensive understanding.
Page 256 - ... the concave taken out at the other end, which extendeth to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the objects without are intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent round by degrees, till he hath designed the whole aspect of the field.
Page 22 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 131 - Bristol [1838?]. 8°. Cleland (J.) Historical account of the steam engine and its application in propelling vessels: with an account of the number and uses of the steam engines in Glasgow, and number of steam boats on the Clyde, in the years 1825 and 1829; population and statistical tables, births, marriages, and burials. Glasgow: E. Khull &> Son, 1820. I pl, 68 p., I 1. 8°.