Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 49Knight & Lacey, 1848 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
algebra angle apparatus application Articles of Utility Birmingham boiler carronades centre claim connected construction CRICKET BALLS cylinder described disc DRIVING BANDS effect electric employed ENGLISH PATENTS engravings equal equation feet fire Fleet-street force furnace Galignani geometry George Stephenson glass Gresham Gresham College Gutta Percha Soles heat horizontal inches invention iron JAMES COCKLE joint length letter lever locomotive London machine Magazine manufacture mathematical means Mechanics ment Messrs metal mode motion obtained paper pass Patent dated perpendicular pieces pipe piston placed plane plate present pressure principle Professor purpose quantity Railway readers resistance Richard Prosser rollers rotary rotary engine Samuel Bentham screw sea wall shaft ship side Sir Samuel Sir Thomas Gresham six months slope Smethwick specification enrolled square Staffordshire Steam Engines surface symbols tion treenails tube valve vertical vessel wave WEEKLY LIST weight wheel wire wrought iron
Popular passages
Page 444 - Regius Professor of Physic, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Modern History, Professor of Botany, Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Jacksonian Professor of Natural...
Page 462 - 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 113 - He that provideth not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 526 - I wish it to be understood that what I claim as my invention...
Page 335 - ... making use of the motive power of magnetism, when developed by the action of such current or currents, substantially as set forth in the foregoing description, ... as means of operating or giving motion to machinery, which may be used to imprint signals upon paper or other suitable material, or to produce sounds in any desired manner, for the purpose of telegraphic communication at any distances,
Page 257 - ... to the same extent and effect as the original enrolment, record, document, or writing could or might be admissible or admitted in evidence, as well for the purpose of proving the contents of such enrolment, record, document, or writing, and the drawing, map, or plan (if any) thereunto annexed, as also proving such enrolment, record, document, or writing to be an enrolment, record, document, or writing of or belonging to the said Court of Chancery, and that such enrolment, record, document, or...
Page 335 - I do not propose to limit myself to the specific machinery or parts of machinery described in the foregoing specification and claims; the essence of my invention being the use of the motive power of the electric or galvanic current, which I call Electro-Magnetism, however developed, for marking or printing intelligible characters, signs, or letters, at any distances, being a new application of that power of which I claim to be the first inventor or discoverer.
Page 398 - London to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Holyhead, Milford, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Dover and Portsmouth ! A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out ; and we might, ere this, have witnessed our mail coaches running at the rate of ten miles an hour, drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine.
Page 256 - An Act to regulate certain Offices in the Petty Bag in the High Court of Chancery, the Practice of the Common Law side of that Court, and the Enrolment Office of the said Court...
Page 335 - There are various known modes of producing motions by electro-magnetism, but none of these had been applied prior to my invention and improvement, to actuate or give motion to printing or recording machinery, which is the chief point of my invention and improvement.