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" 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. "
The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine - Page 81
1840
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An Auto-biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty ...

Sir John Barrow - 1847 - 544 pages
...title : — ' Description and Draught of a newinvented Machine for carrying vessels or ships out of or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm ; for which his Majesty George II. has granted letters patent for the benefit of the Author for the...
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An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical ..., Volume 1

Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 pages
...Jonathan Hulls took out a patent for "a new-invented machine for conveying vessels or ships out of or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." The power was procured by the pressure of the atmosphere against a vacuum, and, by some curious machinery,...
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Chambers's papers for the people, Parts 13-18

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...Jonathan Hulls a patent for a boat propelled by steam-power, ' for carrying vessels or sliips out of or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm.' The pictures we have of this vessel make her look very clumsy and peer when compared with a modern...
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The Steam-engine: A Popular Account of Its Construction, Action, and History ...

Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pages
...entitled, " A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out or in of any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind or Tide, or in a Calm." His power was procured by the pressure of the atmosphere against a vacuum, just as in Newcomen's engine...
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The steam engine

Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...published "a description and draught of a newinvented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." In this steam-boat the engine used was an atmospheric one, rotatory motion being obtained by a continuous...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of ...

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1854 - 458 pages
...entitled 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." It appears from a paper of Professor Renwick of New York, published in Weale's edition of " Tredgold...
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Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications, Volume 37

Patent office - 1858 - 370 pages
...Soe " A Deseription & Draught of a New In" vented Machine for carrying Vessels or Ships out of or mto any Harbour. " Port, or River, against Wind or Tide, or in a Calm, for which His Majesty " has granted Letters Patent for the sole Benefit of the Author for the " Space...
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Great facts, a popular history of inventions during the present century

Frederick Collier Bakewell - 1859 - 334 pages
...entitled, "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." The greater part of this publication is occupied with answers to objections that he supposed might...
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Great Facts: A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable ...

Frederick Collier Bakewell - 1860 - 324 pages
...entitled, " A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out ot or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." The greater part of this publication is occupied with answers to objections that he supposed might...
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A General Catalogue of Books: Arranged in Classes, Offered for Sale

Bernard Quaritch - 1868 - 1152 pages
...HULL'S (Jos.) 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, Transcript, London, printed 1737— Navigation improved, or the Art of Rowing Ships of all Rates in...
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