The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture ...

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T. and G. Underwood, 1812

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Page 71 - 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 following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon...
Page 116 - It is with great satisfaction that I am enabled to inform you, that throughout the whole of my West Indian possessions the period fixed by law for the final and complete emancipation of the negroes has been anticipated by acts of the Colonial Legislatures ; and that the transition from the temporary system of apprenticeship to entire freedom has taken place without...
Page 303 - ... horseradish may be taken up, by opening a trench at one end of the bed to the bottom of the roots, so that the sticks or roots of horseradish may be taken up entire and sound, which for size and quality will be such as have not generally been seen.
Page 191 - Josue Heilmann, of Mulhausen, in the Department du Haut Rhine, in the kingdom of France, machine maker, for improvements in certain machines used for preparing to be spun cotton, wool, and other fibrous materials.
Page 163 - I am wholly un^ able to trace the existence of any thing like sensation or intellect in the plants: and I therefore venture to conclude, that their roots are influenced by the immediate operation and contact of surrounding bodies, and not by any degrees of sensation and passion analogous to those of animal life...
Page 303 - As soon as the leaves decay, let them be taken off by a wooden rake, after which the first planted horseradish may be taken up, by opening a trench at one end of the bed to the bottom of the roots, so that the sticks or roots of horseradish...
Page 303 - ... the bottom of the roots, so that the sticks or roots of horse-radish may be taken up entire and sound, which, for size and quality, will be such as have not generally been seen. The following February, [March or April,] the one year old crop will require additional earth, as before directed, which must of course be taken from those beds, which are now vacant, which when done, if the ground appears poor, or unlikely to produce another vigorous crop, they must have a coat of manure.
Page 1 - With a Plate. AO all to whom these presents shall come, &c. Now' KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I the said Samuel Bentham do...
Page 204 - ... or meal, or pulse, of any kind, with water, in a circular trough, having an upright shaft, turning on a pivot, fixed in the centre of the machine, so that the dough placed in such trough may be kneaded by a stone or iron roller, on its edge, passing over it in a rotary motion, being fixed at a due distance .by an horizontal bar or axle to the shaft, which is to be...
Page 173 - Brazils and this country. It was transmitted to Lord GRENVILLE from Rio de Janeiro, by the Comte DE GALVEAS, as a new article lately brought to that city...

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