Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Հատորներ 19-20 |
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... advantage to the Society , from March 1765 till his last illness in 1798 . He was also an early Member of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies . The Archæologia of the latter , contains his Observations on Peter Collinson's Ac- count of ...
... advantage to the Society , from March 1765 till his last illness in 1798 . He was also an early Member of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies . The Archæologia of the latter , contains his Observations on Peter Collinson's Ac- count of ...
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... advantage . There is great probability of his example exciting a noble spirit of emulation , for similar agricultural exer- tions in that neighbourhood . He has also furnished some hints on the propa- gation of Potatoes , and on the ...
... advantage . There is great probability of his example exciting a noble spirit of emulation , for similar agricultural exer- tions in that neighbourhood . He has also furnished some hints on the propa- gation of Potatoes , and on the ...
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... advantages in particular situa- tions , but probably none of them is more generally useful than the Drain- Plough , of which a Model was this Ses- sion presented to the Society by his Grace the Duke of Bridgewater : it performs the ...
... advantages in particular situa- tions , but probably none of them is more generally useful than the Drain- Plough , of which a Model was this Ses- sion presented to the Society by his Grace the Duke of Bridgewater : it performs the ...
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... advantages of the Drill over the Broad - cast husbandry , in the culture of Turnips , is further elucidated by the Rev. T. C. Munnings , whose paper upon that subject points out a number of minutiæ apparently necessary to the success of ...
... advantages of the Drill over the Broad - cast husbandry , in the culture of Turnips , is further elucidated by the Rev. T. C. Munnings , whose paper upon that subject points out a number of minutiæ apparently necessary to the success of ...
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... for the purpose . In the isle of Thanet , for instance , we observe , that sea - weeds , and even sea - sand , are diligently collected , and attended with great great advantage to the clay - land on which they XX PREFACE .
... for the purpose . In the isle of Thanet , for instance , we observe , that sea - weeds , and even sea - sand , are diligently collected , and attended with great great advantage to the clay - land on which they XX PREFACE .
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Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the ..., Հատոր 3 Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1792 |
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ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES acres advantage Annatto Bart boat CHARLES TAYLOR Cheapside colour common copal crop cultivation drilled Drying Oils edulcoration effect English Elms engrafted expense experiments F. R. and A. S. farther feet FIFTY GUINEAS Fish-oil French Burr fruit George girder GOLD MEDAL greatest quantity ground Hemp Henry hitherto Honourable hundred improvement inches Inner Temple invent James John Larch last Tuesday less lever Life-Boat Machine Manufactures method Mill-stones mode Model obedient Servant observations PALLET Paper person placed plantations plants Plate ploughed pounds pounds weight premium is extended Premium offered present preserving produced proper CERTIFICATES purpose quantity of land Richard Robert sample second Tuesday seed ship SILVER MEDAL Society the best Society's soil South Shields sowing sown THIRTY GUINEAS Thomas THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT tion trees Tuesday in February Tuesday in January Tuesday in November Turnips TWENTY GUINEAS vegetation weight Wheat wheel William
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Էջ 56 - Licences for that purpose under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief of the...
Էջ 282 - From this part to the top of the stem it is more elliptical, forming a considerable projection. The sides, from the...
Էջ 332 - ... scapement then referred to. I beg leave to remark, that the train of wheels in mine is prevented from pressing against the locking, by the whole power of the remontoire-spring; so that the balance has only to remove the small remaining pressure, which does away that objection, and also that of the disadvantage of detents, as this locking may be compared to a light balance turning on fine pivots, without a pendulum-spring ; and has only the advantage of banking safe at two turns of the balance,...
Էջ 227 - half a pint of water in which an ounce of salt has been dissolved ; and having boiled them half an hour, pour them into a proper vessel, and let them stand till the separation of the oil, water, and lime be made, as in the preceding process.
Էջ 213 - Lewis's process, without injuring its colour; and this solution was made in the common way. It was much darker coloured in itself, but produced scarcely any difference in effect when mixed with colour. By experiments with each of these solutions I ascertained the following facts, viz.:— " Every colour, and all the tints compounded from it, were more brilliant than corresponding tints and colours mixed with the best drying oils to be procured from the shops. "Colours mixed with amber, after having...
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Էջ 229 - Transactions of the Society of Arts, vol. xix. 3 P. 688. 4 The recipe is as follows : — " Take 4 parts of balsam of copavi and one of copal. Powder and sift the copal, and throw it by degrees into the balsam of copavi, stirring it well each time it...
Էջ 320 - ... launches over it with vast rapidity, without shipping any water. It is necessary to observe, that there is often a strong reflux of sea, occasioned by the stranded wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows to the land, the boat will come in shore without any other effort than steering. I would strongly recommend practising the boat, by which means, with experience, the danger will appear less,...
Էջ 309 - One prisoner only has died (a woman aged sixty) in the month of October last. At the opening of the spring assizes, 1801, (the time of the greatest numbers) there was not one prisoner sick, or in the hospital ward. " By this statement it appears, that the proportion of deaths is so much below the common average, in the ordinary situations of life, that the healthiness of this abode may be said to be peculiar...