Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Volumes 33-34 |
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Page vii - Institution. The meetings of the SOCIETY are held every Wednesday, at seven o'clock in the evening, from the fourth H'ccbiesday in October to the first Wednesday in June.
Page 250 - ... falls of the stones can be adjusted by the miller either when the mill is in action or motionless, with the greatest possible facility. " The stones are covered by a hoop or case, which entirely encloses them, leaving a space all round between the stone and the hoop of about two inches ; on the top of the case is fixed the hopper, which is filled with paddy; it falls through a hole in the bottom of the hopper into a shoot, and is conveyed into the hole in the centre of the upper or running stone...
Page 95 - I have the honour to be, My dear Sir, With great respect, Your obliged and faithful servant, TF CALCUTTA.
Page 52 - I cannot adequately express, the letter which you did me the honour to address to me on the 22nd instant.
Page 250 - ... by the centrifugal force from the centre to the extremity of the stones, and thrown out in all directions into the case or hoop which surrounds the stones : in one side of this hoop is a hole through which the rice in this state runs out. " The stones should be set in the first instance with great care ; for if they are too near, the rice will be broken, and, if too far apart, the paddy will get through without being touched ; but when set at the right distance, the husk will be completely taken...
Page 35 - It appears," she observes, *' that the great secret in raising plantations of oaks is, to get them to advance rapidly the first eight years from seed, or the first five years from planting, so as the heads of the trees are...
Page 94 - The only method we are at present acquainted with for preventing accidents by fire, is a mechanical application of the atmospheric air to the removing or sweeping away of the inflammable gas, as it is generated in the workings of collieries, or as it issues from the several fissures which the workings intersect in their progress.
Page 98 - In many instances it has been found necessary to explode these lodgements three times a day, at each time clearing the mines of all the workmen, except the firemen ; the necessity of which has been occasioned by the miners cutting down strata, or measures of coal, so as to render their roof higher than the general run of six or eight feet seams, and by these means, making the extra elevation too great, to be affected by the diluting current.
Page 6 - To the person who shall invent a machine, superior to any hitherto known or in use, to answer the purpose of dibbling wheat, by which the holes for receiving the grain may be made at equal distances and proper depths; the silver medal, and ten guineas. The Machine, with...