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SCIENCE AND ART. NAVAL STEAM HAMMER.
There has lately been introduced into the naval service of Great Britain, an invention of first-rate importance in this era of steam machinery, brought under the notice of the Government by Captain ...
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MECHANICAL PREVENTION OF SEA SICKNESS.
The model of a contrivance, very properly said to be important to all persons going to sea, but more especially to those who are affected by that most wretched of all sensations to the generality of landsmen—sea ...
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COLOUR MUSIC.
Messrs Smith, Elder, & Co., the London Booksellers, have recently published a little book illustrative of a new method of teaching music by colours. This easy art is not yet much known ...
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ANTI-INFLAMMABLE STARCH.
We have lately tested the efficacy of a species of starch invented by Baron Charles Wetterstedt, who has obtained a patent for his invention, with which if gauze, muslin, linen, or any substance used for ...
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NOVEL MATERIAL FOR PAPER MAKING.
A young man, living in Halifax, New Brunswick, has made a successful experiment of converting Spruce Fir into paper of the finest texture. He first reduces the wood to a pulp, and ...
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LORIMER'S PATENT TRANSPARENT PLANE.
This ingenious and useful invention would appear to have been suggested by the perforated zinc or cardboard blinds, now so general. The inventor, it is probable, having observed, in common with other ...
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KOLLMANN'S RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE.
Must of our readers are no doubt aware, that certain improvements in Railway Locomotives and in the construction of Railways, the inventions of a highly talented engineer, Mr G. A. Kollmann, ...
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