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  2. NEW CAST METAL FURNACE.

    Messrs Smithard and Addison, of Guernsey, have invented a plan for heating shot to a red heat, by placing sixty 12-pounders into a square cast metal furnace, nearly similar in appearance ...

    Article : 174 words
  3. NEW METHOD OF PLATING STEEL.

    The last number of the Pharmaceutical Journal contains an account of a new and ready method of plating steel, by immersing the steel to be coated in a solution of hypo-sulphate of silver and soda. ...

    Article : 37 words
  4. INDIA-RUBBER STOCKINGS.

    The French are manufacturing stockings wholly of India-rubber thread. They are made by machines, and are said to be excellent in preventing rheumatic pains. ...

    Article : 27 words
  5. BEST METHOD OF PROTECTING BUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING.

    Were our houses, magazines, and ships, built of iron, or did they consist of a framework of iron filled up with stone, brick, or wood, they might bid defiance to the ravages of accidental or wilful ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. A NEW KIND OF CANNON.

    A letter from Sweden states that Baron Wahrendoriff has invented a new kind of cannon for fortresses. The carriage and the gun form only one piece. The space occupied is but small, and at it ...

    Article : 66 words
  7. MODERN CANDLE MANUFACTURE.

    With the progress of art and science the means of artificial illumination has greatly advanced. From the days of Accum downwards there has been a race of competition, from the application of coals, oils, ...

    Article : 483 words
  8. GAS FROM ANIMAL MATTER.

    A process has been discovered by which animal matter can be converted into an inodorous gas, which burns with extreme brillianey. It can be obtained at a very cheap rate, and may be rendered ...

    Article : 59 words
  9. STREET ILLUMINATION.

    A new electro-magnetic light has been invented at Cincinnati, of such power, that one of them, at a height of 200 feet, is expected to illumine the whole, city. Would that we had one in the "City" of ...

    Article : 41 words
  10. A SPEAKING AUTOMATION.

    After eighteen years of unceasing labour, a German named Faber has succeeded in constructing a speaking automaton upon the models of the human organs of voice, the tongue, larynx, &c., being made ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. MISDIRECTED INGENUITY.

    Mr Warner, an ingenious watchmaker and jeweller, who occupies a stand at the Polytecnic Institution, has completed the model of a high-pressure steam-engine, so small that it stand upon a ...

    Article : 282 words
  12. ELECTRIC CLOCKS.

    Mr Bain has succeeded to admiration in working electric clocks by the currents of the earth. On the 28th of August, he set up a small clock in my drawing-room, the pendulum of which is in the hall, ...

    Article : 290 words
  13. FILTRATION.

    To the Marquis of Westminster, is indirectly owing the existence of the system of filtering large bodies of water which our neighbours, the manufacturers of Lancashire, are adopting. The noble ...

    Article : 817 words
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