Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts: Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and Other Patent InventionsFranklin Institute, 1840 Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415] |
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... invention . The fact will nevertheless excite some surprise , that in England alone , the booksellers have sold , in a very few years , more than an hundred thou- sand copies of numerous works , in which this historical question is ...
... invention . The fact will nevertheless excite some surprise , that in England alone , the booksellers have sold , in a very few years , more than an hundred thou- sand copies of numerous works , in which this historical question is ...
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... invention must be awarded to Hiero . For my part I might have passed them over altogether in silence , since I have only to do with known machines , such as are in common use , and which have no affinity with the revolving sphere of the ...
... invention must be awarded to Hiero . For my part I might have passed them over altogether in silence , since I have only to do with known machines , such as are in common use , and which have no affinity with the revolving sphere of the ...
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... invention was approved , and if the expedition in which Charles V , was then engaged had not prevented , he would no doubt have encouraged it . " Nevertheless , the Emperor promoted the inventor one grade , made him a present of 200,000 ...
... invention was approved , and if the expedition in which Charles V , was then engaged had not prevented , he would no doubt have encouraged it . " Nevertheless , the Emperor promoted the inventor one grade , made him a present of 200,000 ...
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... Inventions. steam draining machine . But perhaps it might be supposed , if I were to limit myself to the ... invention : - " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire , not by drawing or sucking it upwards ...
... Inventions. steam draining machine . But perhaps it might be supposed , if I were to limit myself to the ... invention : - " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire , not by drawing or sucking it upwards ...
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... Inventions. the other . I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high ; one vessel of ... invention which is alone , he adds , sufficient to immortalize the age in which this man lived . " Let us , in our ...
... Inventions. the other . I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high ; one vessel of ... invention which is alone , he adds , sufficient to immortalize the age in which this man lived . " Let us , in our ...
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Page 115 - Be it known that I, John Fitch, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved mode of preventing steam-boilers from bursting, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.
Page 287 - General, who is a member of the Cabinet of the President of the United States: but, like the other cabinet officers, receives only the moderate salary of 6000 dollars.
Page 98 - The Committee on Science and the Arts constituted by the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, to whom was referred for examination a Solar Compass, invented by WM.
Page 25 - Whenever, through inadvertence, accident, or mistake. and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, a patentee has claimed more than that of which he was the original or first inventor or discoverer...
Page 18 - The Committee on Science and the Arts, constituted by the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, to whom was referred for examination, two reflecting telescopes, made by Mr.
Page 83 - A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm.
Page 305 - Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said William Graham, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed...
Page 11 - I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack...
Page 25 - Office; and it shall thereafter be considered as part of the original specification to the extent of the interest possessed by the claimant and by those claiming under him after the record thereof.
Page 25 - The specifications and claim in every such case shall be subject to revision and restriction in the same manner as original applications are.