The Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Manufactures and Shipbuilding, 74. köide

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Robertson, Brooman, & Company, 1861

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Page 111 - Act incorporated therewith, for the purpose of publishing any bye-law or penalty, or shall obliterate any of the letters or figures thereon, he shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and shall defray the expenses attending the restoration of such board.
Page 60 - ... glass vessel, and steam was made to pass through it until it ceased to be condensed, and the water in the glass vessel was become nearly boiling hot. The water in the glass vessel was then found to have gained an addition of about one-sixth part from the condensed steam.
Page 184 - The vapor of water is thus made to give up not only its constituent elements to form new compounds with oxygen, producing in the change great heat, but a great part of the heat absorbed by the water in becoming steam is also liberated in this change of its physical and chemical condition. Moreover, as all these products of combustion and of chemical reaction pass together over the bridge-wall of the furnace into a space from which atmospheric air is not excluded, it then...
Page 183 - ... in the history of inventions, that important results are often obtained, of the highest value in promoting material prosperity and the welfare of society, by those who are guided in their search only by the result in view, and not by any exact knowledge of the scientific principles involved. Mr. Thompson seems to have been inspired with the conviction that if he could bring the products from the combustion of wet fuel together in a place, hot enough for the purpose, and from which the atmospheric...
Page 184 - What I claim as my improvement in furnaces for burning bagasse and other fuels too wet to be conveniently burned in the usual way and well known ways, is : " First, the combination of two chambers, the one above the other, and separated by a grate, the lower one for the combustion of any known dry carbonaceous fuel, and the upper one in immediate proximity therewith to receive heat therefrom for heating and drying the charge of wet fuel, with a mixing chamber, into which both continuously and simultaneously...
Page 60 - Being struck with this remarkable fact, and not understanding the reason of it, I mentioned it to my friend Dr. Black, who then explained to me his doctrine of latent heat, which he had taught for some time before this period, (summer...
Page 185 - The products of this distillation react on each other in the mixing chamber in the manner already described, while at the same time a portion of watery vapor is decomposed in the ash-pit. Theoretically no more heat can be generated in this mode of combustion than is consumed in the transformation of water into steam and the conversion of fixed into volatile...
Page 115 - III. chap. 78), which provides that "no action, suit, or process whatever shall be had, maintained or prosecuted against any person in whose house, chamber, stable, barn or other building,, or on whose estate any fire shall . . . accidentally begin nor shall any recompense be made by such person for any damage suffered thereby, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 164 - The greatest height in 1851 was 160 feet, and the main nave 60 feet high by 72 wide. The greatest height of the new building will be 260 feet, and the nave 85 feet wide and 100 feet high. The total length of the first exhibition building was 1,800 feet by 400 wide. The...
Page 111 - Scotland, one half to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other to any person who shall sue for the same: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to subject any person to any penalty in respect of stamping or in any way marking the word " Patent" upon any thing made, for the sole making or vending of which a patent before obtained shall have expired.

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