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 ...
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Article : 355 wordsA 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 wordsWith 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 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsAfter 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 wordsMr 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 wordsMr 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 wordsTo 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 ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 26 Apr 1845, Page 8
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