item: #1 of 37 id: 18866 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 39044 flesch: 72 summary: By G. W. W., W. A. A., G. H. F. House Warming. (17) J. W. will find full directions for canning corn, etc., on p. 394 (4), vol. keywords: address; air; american; article; bar; best; co.; cooper; cost; country; day; door; engine; english; fig; free; furnace; gary; good; great; hand; heat; illustration; invention; iron; light; line; lock; machine; machinery; magnet; manufacturers; new; new york; number; paper; patent; pen; pole; power; present; price; scientific; send; steam; street; time; use; water; wire; work; world; writing; years; york cache: 18866.txt plain text: 18866.txt item: #2 of 37 id: 19180 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 41577 flesch: 73 summary: Families supplied and canvassers appointed, by Montgomery & Co., 42 Barclay st., New York, or Cleveland, O. All parties wanting a water wheel will learn something of interest by addressing P. H. Wait, Sandy Hill, N. Y., for a free circular of his Hudson River Champion Turbine. And Re-Sawing Machines, Wood and Iron Working Machinery, Engines, Boilers, etc. JOHN B. SCHENCK & SON, Matteawan, N. Y., and 118 Liberty st., New York. keywords: address; american; assignor; boston; car; case; circular; city; co.; conn; end; ends; engine; experiments; free; half; hand; illustration; inches; invention; iron; lead; length; line; machine; machinery; manufacturers; mass; new; new york; number; oak; ohio; paper; park; patent; philadelphia; power; price; process; rope; silk; square; state; steam; steel; strands; time; use; water; way; weight; wood; work; years; york cache: 19180.txt plain text: 19180.txt item: #3 of 37 id: 19406 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 41388 flesch: 72 summary: * * * PUNCHING PRESSES Drop Hammers and Dies, for working Metals, &c. THE STILES & PARKER PRESS CO., Middletown, Conn. AMERICAN ENAMEL CO. 17 WARREN ST., PROVIDENCE, R.I. * * keywords: acid; address; air; american; black; blue; business; case; cents; city; co.; copy; country; cut; cutting; day; end; engine; feet; fig; gas; general; glass; good; illustrated; illustration; invention; iron; lathes; light; machine; machinery; man; means; men; n.y; new; new york; number; office; paper; papin; parts; patent; place; power; present; price; rays; scientific; screw; set; states; steam; steel; street; surface; time; use; vol; water; way; white; wire; wood; work; year; york cache: 19406.txt plain text: 19406.txt item: #4 of 37 id: 21081 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 40065 flesch: 72 summary: (9) W. H. C. asks: Is there any way of deadening the noise of machinery overhead from the engine room below? (19) J. H. asks: Which would be the strongest, two 2-inch by 4-inch joists nailed together, or one 4-inch by 4-inch joist? keywords: address; air; american; apparatus; boston; business; case; catalogue; city; co.; cylinder; end; engine; feet; foot; form; glass; half; heat; ice; illustrated; illustration; inches; invention; iron; knowledge; leaf; length; light; line; machine; machinery; manufacturers; new; new york; number; nut; office; oil; paper; piston; place; power; pressure; price; scientific; small; steam; street; time; use; valve; vessel; water; wheel; work; year; york cache: 21081.txt plain text: 21081.txt item: #5 of 37 id: 2481 author: Nadin, Mihai title: The Civilization of Illiteracy date: None words: 277060 flesch: 49 summary: If it makes sense), through the intermediary of which truth and falsehood take occupancy of language experiences. As we have seen, prior to language experiences, people constituted their identity in a phase of circular and self-referential reflection. keywords: ability; access; activities; activity; american; art; aspects; associated; awareness; beings; body; book; change; characteristics; children; choices; circumstances; civilization; communication; community; complex; computer; condition; constitute; constitution; context; control; countries; cultural; culture; cycles; data; democracy; design; development; digital; dynamics; education; efficiency; effort; elements; end; environment; events; example; existence; expectations; experience; expression; extent; fact; family; food; forms; framework; free; function; future; general; given; goals; good; history; human; humankind; ideas; identity; images; individual; industrial; information; instance; interaction; interest; internet; knowledge; language; language constitution; language experience; language use; level; life; literacy; literate; live; living; logic; machines; makes; making; market; matter; meaning; means; mediating; mediation; medium; methods; military; mind; model; national; nature; need; networks; new; new york; non; notion; number; object; order; outside; past; patterns; people; performance; person; perspective; philosophy; physical; place; point; politics; power; practice; pragmatic; praxis; present; process; processes; processing; product; production; programs; public; quality; question; reading; reality; realm; reason; relation; religion; research; resources; result; right; role; rules; scale; science; self; sense; set; signs; skills; social; society; space; sports; state; structure; students; subject; support; survival; system; technology; television; things; thinking; time; today; tools; understanding; universe; university; use; values; variety; virtual; visual; war; ways; words; work; world; writing; written; years cache: 2481.txt plain text: 2481.txt item: #6 of 37 id: 25822 author: Anonymous title: Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls date: None words: 39312 flesch: 83 summary: They are often very quarrelsome, and will peck at each other in a way that little birds should not. You are just in time to see the retorts opened, said he, and led the way directly into a large and very dingy room, along one side of which was built out a sort of huge iron cupboard with several little iron doors. keywords: august; birds; city; cut; day; editor; eggs; end; feet; fig; gas; half; head; home; house; illustration; light; look; mamma; man; men; new; news; number; paper; place; room; saw; set; snow; things; time; type; umbrella; water; way; work cache: 25822.txt plain text: 25822.txt item: #7 of 37 id: 27867 author: Various title: Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements date: None words: 21054 flesch: 73 summary: This is very convenient for turners, whose business requires at some times a rapid speed of the mandrill, and at other times a slow or gentle motion. _Troy_ says, Now give me a chance. keywords: american; application; common; feet; head; homeward; inches; invention; iron; machine; new; office; paper; patent; plods; ploughman; power; public; railroad; right; scientific; square; states; time; use; water; way; weary; wheel; years; york cache: 27867.txt plain text: 27867.txt item: #8 of 37 id: 28553 author: Williams, Archibald title: How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use date: None words: 76322 flesch: 74 summary: glass convex element, B, and a concave element, A, of _flint_ glass. The number of vibrations is inversely proportional to the _length_ of the string: thus, a one-foot string would vibrate twice as fast as a two-foot string, strained to the same tension, and of equal diameter and weight. keywords: air; boiler; box; case; circuit; coil; current; cylinder; direction; distance; electric; end; engine; eye; fig; force; form; gas; gear; glass; heat; illustration; image; inch; key; left; length; lens; lever; line; magnet; number; object; pass; passes; pipe; piston; point; position; power; pressure; rays; right; rod; round; section; shaft; signals; speed; spring; steam; surface; train; tube; valve; water; wheel; wire cache: 28553.txt plain text: 28553.txt item: #9 of 37 id: 29411 author: Various title: Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements date: None words: 19981 flesch: 65 summary: We do not believe that such men as Benton, Calhoun, and other kindred spirits, ask or desire anything but what they think is right. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall appear to the Commissioner that any patent was destroyed by the burning of the Patent Office building on the aforesaid fifteenth day of December, or was otherwise lost prior thereto, it shall be his duty, on application therefor by the patentee, or other persons interested therein, to issue a new patent for the same invention or discovery, bearing the date of the original patent, with his certificate thereon, that it was made and issued pursuant to the provisions of the third section of this act; and shall enter the same of record; Provided, however, That before such patent shall be issued, the applicant therefor shall deposit in the Patent Office keywords: american; city; commissioner; day; earth; feet; half; hours; illustration; improvement; invention; inventor; iron; july; man; mass; new; office; paper; patent; place; present; scientific; sec; state; sun; surface; time; united; use; water; work; york cache: 29411.txt plain text: 29411.txt item: #10 of 37 id: 34527 author: Doctorow, Cory title: Makers date: None words: 187689 flesch: 89 summary: Perry Perry Perry! This wasn't the Perry Lester knew. keywords: -and; air; arm; away; bed; big; box; build; building; business; car; care; cars; christ; coffee; come; coming; company; computer; cops; couple; course; day; days; death; disney; door; email; end; eva; eyes; face; fatkins; feel; fire; florida; francis; freddy; free; friends; fucking; girl; good; great; ground; guignol; guy; guys; hackelberg; hair; half; hand; hard; head; hell; help; hilda; home; hotel; hour; house; idea; inside; job; kettlewell; kids; kind; know; kodacell; left; lester; life; live; living; look; looking; lot; lots; love; making; man; market; meet; moment; money; morning; mouth; need; new; office; open; park; past; people; perry; phone; place; pretty; rest; ride; right; road; room; running; sammy; saw; second; set; shantytown; shit; shut; smile; sound; story; street; stuff; suzanne; table; talk; talking; thing; thinking; thought; time; tjan; turn; use; voice; waits; want; water; way; week; white; woman; work; working; world; years cache: 34527.txt plain text: 34527.txt item: #11 of 37 id: 36768 author: Fyfe, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton) title: Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science date: None words: 70587 flesch: 67 summary: Luca was recognised as one of the first sculptors of the day, and executed a number of great works in bronze and marble. The itch of writing is now so strong in us, we are so constantly writing or receiving letters, our appetite for them is so ravenous, that we wonder how people got on in the days when the postman was the exclusive messenger of the king, and when even majesty was so badly served that, as one old postmaster[D] wrote in self-exculpation of some delay, when placards are sent (to order the immediate forwarding of some state despatches) the constables many times be fayne to take the horses oute of plowes and cartes, wherein, he gravely adds, can be no extreme diligence. keywords: 8vo; arkwright; art; bell; boat; book; cable; century; cloth; country; course; day; days; end; engine; england; enterprise; experiments; family; father; feet; form; good; great; half; hand; hour; house; idea; illustrated; invention; iron; left; length; letters; life; little; london; machine; man; manufacture; means; men; miles; new; night; number; people; place; poor; post; power; price; printing; rock; sea; set; steam; stephenson; system; till; time; trade; use; water; watt; way; work; world; years cache: 36768.txt plain text: 36768.txt item: #12 of 37 id: 38480 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.—No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 42456 flesch: 71 summary: (49) J. W. W. asks: Which will stand the most pressure, a piece of round iron 1 inch long and 1 inch in diameter, or a piece of gas pipe the same dimensions, both being set upon end? (26) J. J. asks: Which tire makes a wheel the strongest, 1.25 x 0.50 inch iron, or 1.25 x 5/16 steel tire? keywords: address; alum; american; boiler; business; cent; city; co.; company; cost; current; day; electric; end; engine; engravings; equal; feet; foot; form; gas; great; horse; illustration; inches; iron; lbs; light; machine; machinery; making; manufacture; means; metal; new; new york; number; office; oil; paper; patent; petroleum; place; power; pressure; price; public; rail; scientific; state; steam; steel; supplement; time; use; water; way; wire; wood; work; world; years; york cache: 38480.txt plain text: 38480.txt item: #13 of 37 id: 38481 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.—No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 43971 flesch: 70 summary: (1) J. H. N., of Christ Church, New Zealand, asks: Is the stearin from which the olein has been extracted by Dr. Mott's process fit to be made at once into good stearin candles, without any further treatment? By J. E. W. On Anti-Water Drinking. keywords: address; air; american; axle; bar; book; case; center; city; co.; copper; country; crank; eccentric; end; ends; engine; feet; fig; form; free; heat; illustration; inches; invention; iron; lead; line; little; machine; machinery; mass; motion; new; number; order; parts; patent; place; position; power; price; scientific; set; size; steam; syrup; table; time; tin; use; valve; water; way; wheel; wood; work; york cache: 38481.txt plain text: 38481.txt item: #14 of 37 id: 38482 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.—No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 31068 flesch: 70 summary: al_ 228,408 Belting and process of manufacture, cotton, M. Gandy 228,186 Belts, lacing, O. C. Pomeroy 228,390 Berth for vessels, self-leveling, D. Huston (r) 9,224 Berth for vessels, self-leveling, C. C. Sanderson 228,278 Berth, self-leveling ship's, C. C. Sanderson 228,279 Binders, knot tyer for self, W. Stephens 228,228 Blacking and polishing boots and shoes, machine for, P. P. Audoye 228,297 Blower, fan, H. Allen 228,293 Bolting tree, J. M. Springer 228,409 Boot and gaiter, rubber, G. H. Sanford 228,398 Bottle, etc., lock, A. T. Boone 228,170 Bottle stopper, E. Hollender 228,355 Bow strings, clutch for, C. M. Beard 228,302 Bracelet, C. E. Hayward 228,348 Bracelet, A. Vester 228,425 Bran cleaner, L. Gathmann 228,340 Brick, pottery, etc., kiln for burning, E. Escherich 228,331 Buckboard, E. Hitt 228,352 Buckle, tug, D. O. Fosgate 228,255 Bumper, W. V. Perry 228,385 Bung, J. H. Stamp 228,227 Button fastener, D. Bainbridge 228,298 Button, sleeve and cuff, H. McDougall 228,370 Buttons, machine for making, W. W. Wade 228,233 Can, D. Bennett 228,167 Can fastening, J. Hall 228,343 Car coupling, Neff & Thalman 228,378 Car coupling, J. F. Stanley 228,411 Car coupling, Morand & Edwards 228,212 Car coupling tool, G. Searl 228,400 Car door bolt, A. W. Zimmerman 228,241 Car wheel, J. A. Woodbury 228,430 Car wheel chill, W. Wilmington 228,428 Cars, bell cord guide for railway, S. L. Finley 228,253 Cars upon railways, running, J. R. Cox 228,176 Carbureting gas and air, W. M. Jackson 228,357 Card teeth, apparatus for tempering wire for, W. F. Bateman 228,301 Carpet fastener, W. Bray 228,306 Carpet lining, G. J. Bicknell 228,168 Carpet sweeper, B. W. Johnson 228,358 Carriage top, E. S. Scripture (r) 9,230 Carriage top rest, G. Miles 228,211 Cartridge shells, machine for drawing, A. C. Hobbs 228,197 Centering machine, J. E. Dimsey 228,249 Chair seats and backs, making, F. D. Newton 228,377 Chandelier, extension, G. Bohner 228,244 Cheese press, M. B. Fraser (r) 9,228 Cheese press, G. F. White 228,291 Cheese vat, J. B. Marquis 228,366 Chuck, J. H. Westcott 228,426 Churn, E. Rhoades (r) 9,225 Clock, alarm, F. Krober 228,202 Clock, calendar, C. S. Lewis 228,261 Clock case, G. Havell 228,193 Cloth pressing machine, P. Miller 228,375 Clutch, W. J. Ray 228,276 Cockle separator, D. Brubaker 228,310 Collar, horse, T. Hepburn 228,351 Commode, A. Climie 228,313 Copying process, dry, Kwaysser & Husak 228,362 Cork tapering machine, F. L. Blair 228,169 Corn husking machine, F. L. Collis 228,174 Corn husking machine roller, E. A. Bourquin 228,305 Corn popper, D. Lumbert 228,205 Cornice, window, H. F. Gray 228,189 Cranks, device for overcoming the dead points of, C. L. Fleischmann 228,185 Crochet needles, manufacture of, J. A. Smith 228,404 Crucible furnaces, hydrocarbon burner for, I. M. Seamans 228,281 Cutlery, pocket, J. W. Ayers 228,163 Danger signal, M. A. Vosburgh 228,232 Diagram for theaters, etc., H. T. Lemon 228,204 Domestic boiler, C. Friedeborn 228,339 Drawing, apparatus for assisting in, W. B. O. Peabody 228,273 Drying apparatus, W. J. Johnson 228,259 Electrotype mould, E. B. Sheldon 228,224 Exercising machine, F. Saunders 228,277 Eyeglasses, J. Schaffer 228,399 Fan, M. Rubin 228,394 Fastening device, E. F. Miller 228,373 Faucet attachment, C. A. Raggio 228,219 Fence nail, wire, E. L. Warren 228,236 Fertilizers, process and apparatus for the manufacture of, W. Plumer 228,387 Firearm, breech-loading, W. H. Baker 228,165 Fluted fabrics, machine for creasing, E. Brosemann 228,309 Fruit basket, H. B. Crandall 228,248 Fuel, process and apparatus for burning pulverized, A. Faber de Faur 228,334 Furnace, B. F. Smith 228,405 Gas, making illuminating, T. J. F. Regan 228,392 Gate, E. J. Clark 228,314 Gate roller, F. W. Holbrook 228,354 Gelatine or ichthyocolla from salted fish skins, extracting, J. S. Rogers (r) 9,226 Glass furnace, T. B. Atterbury 228,296 Glassware, machine for grinding, A. M. Bacon 228,164 Glove fastener, Smith & Hassall 228,403 Governor, elevator, I. H. Small 228,284 Governor for marine engines, W. U. Fairbairn 228,252 Governor for middlings purifiers, etc., feed, W. Donlon 228,180 Grain conveyer, pneumatic, F. A. Luckenbach 228,206 Grain meter, J. B. Stoner 228,229 Grain separator, magnetic, C. E. Fritz (r) 9,229 Grate, fire, E. Moneuse 228,376 Grinding and polishing wheel, G. Hart 228,257 Hammer lifter, drop, C. G. Cross 228,324 Harness, breast, J. W. Cooper 228,175 Harrow, S. A. Bollinger 228,303 Harrow, C. W. Page 228,382 Harvester, Jones & Emerson 228,359 Header, guiding, W. H. Keen 228,260 Heating and ventilating apparatus, J. W. Geddes 228,188 Hinge, spring, L. Bommer 228,304 Hitching strap, J. C. Covert 228,322 Hoes and other tools, eye for, J. R. Thomas 228,419 Hog holder and nose ring carrier, W. A. Stark 228,286 Horse hoof pad, A. J. Lockie 228,262 Horse power equalizer, W. T. G. Cobb 228,173 Horse power sweep, J. Branning 228,307 Horseshoe nail machine, J. Roy 228,220 Hose coupling, S. Adlam, Jr. 228,161 Hose coupling, M. B. Hill 228,196 Hot air furnace, B. W. Felton 228,336 Hydraulic joint, E. D. Meier 228,209 Indigo blue, making artificial, A. Baeyer 228,300 Lamp, car, G. Seagrave 228,402 Lamp globe, G. Chappel 228,247 Lamp, street, J. G. Miner 228,265 Last, W. J. Crowley 228,178 Latch, G. L. Crandal 228,323 Life protector for railway rails, E. J. Hoffman 228,353 Lifting jack, J. State 228,285 Lithographic press, J. A. Parks 228,271 Lock, C. F. Otto 228,379 Locomotive, J. B. Smith 228,406 Locomotive cone, F. A. Perry 228,386 Locomotive engine, J. W. Clardy 228,172 Locomotive lubricator, W. P. Phillips 228,215 Loom for weaving gauze fabrics, A. McLean 228,372 Loom shedding mechanism, H. Halcroft 228,191 Loom temple, E. Hamilton 228,346 Loom temple, J. & L. Hardaker 228,256 Lubricator, W. P. Phillips 228,216, 228,217 Mash machine, W. Craig 228,177 Mash rake, whisky, D. L. Graves 228,190 Mash stirrer, G. Schock 228,222 Measuring machine, cloth, B. K. Parker 228,381 Middlings purifier, J. B. Martin 228,367 Milk cooler, T. Stahler 228,412 Milk pail holder, A. C. Dodge 228,327 Mining and excavating apparatus, E. M. Hugentobler 228,356 Mortising machine, E. H. N. Clarkson (r) 9,221 Nickel, solution for electro-deposition of, J. Powell 228,389 Oil and lard oil, treatment of petroleum lubricating, H. V. P. Draper 228,181 Ore separator, magnetic, T. A. Edison 228,329 Packing for piston rods, etc., metallic, L. Katzenstein 228,200 Packing for steam engines, spring, J. W. Smith 228,225 Packing, piston, W. M. Thompson, Jr. 228,420 Packing, piston rod, R. B. H. Gould 228,341 Padlock, McDonald & McAllister (r) 228,371 Pantaloons, F. H. Carney 228,246 Paper bag machine, C. A. Chandler 228,312 Paper floor covering, compound, H. Hayward 228,194 Paper for bank notes, checks, etc., J Sangster 228,221 Parchment or toughening paper, making artificial, L. H. G. Ehrhardt 228,328 Pens, pointing, E. Wiley 228,427 Permutation lock, J. B. Cook 228,316 Photo-negatives, producing, embellishing, and retouching, W. D. Osborne 228,380 Photographic background, accessory for forming, W. F. Ashe 228,295 Picture support, G. H. Brown 228,308 Pillow sham holder, M. A. Steers 228,414 Pipes, tubing etc., protector for the threaded ends of, H. E. Boyd 228,171 Planter, corn, R. H. C. Enyeart 228,332 Planter, corn, A. Hearst 228,258 Planter, corn, A. Runstetler 228,396 Plow attachment, J. R. Harbaugh 228,192 Plumbers' traps, manufacture of, J. McCloskey 228,369 Preserving evaporated fruits and vegetables, H. G. Hulburd 228,198 Printer's chase, J. Kingsland, Jr. 228,201 Printer's quoin, C. G. Squintani 228,410 Printer's type case, J. T. Edson 228,251 Pulley, J. B. Stockham 228,415 Pump, W. S. Laney 228,203 Pump, lift, P. T. Perkins 228,383 Pump, rotary, J. Hallner 228,344 Pump, steam jet, Randall & Tuttle 228,275 Railway heads, stop motion for, H. T. Spencer 228,407 Railway joints, angle splice for, J. D. Hawks 228,347 Railway signal apparatus, electric, O. Gassett 228,187 Range, D. H. Nation 228,268, 228,269, 228,270 Reclining chair, T. G. Maguire 228,263 Refrigerating and ice making apparatus, C. P. G. Linde 228,364 Rivets, making tubular, G. W. Tucker 228,423 Rock drills and earth augers, machine for operating, G. Taylor 228,418 Rubber bottles, etc., closing the openings in India, T. J. Mayall 228,207 Rubber, ornamenting hard, H., O., & M. Traun 228,290 Sash cord fastener and sash lock, combined, E. V. Heaford 228,349 Sash cord guide, E. H. N. Clarkson (r) 9,222 Sash fastener, S. P. Jackson 228,199 Sash fastening, J. Pusey 228,274 Sawing machine, circular, P. Pryibil 228,218 Sawing machine, drag, S. F. Steele 228,413 Sawing machine, drag, A. Wilkins 228,237 Screw bolt, L. Strauss 228,288 Screw threads, device for cutting, J. C. Williams 228,429 Sealing packages, E. A. McAlpin 228,368 Seaming machine, F. A. Walsh 228,234, 228,235 Sewing machine balance wheel pulley, E. Flather 228,184 Sheet metal joint, C. Wright 228,240 Shirt, G. C. Henning 228,195 Shoe, J. J. Snyder 228,226 Shoe nail, Z. Talbot 228,417 Shoe support, rubber, J. G. Foreman 228,338 Shoulder brace, C. A. Williamson 228,238 Sign, flexible, F. Tuchfarber (r) 9,223 Skiving machine, W. S. Fitzgerald 228,183 Skylight, W. D. Smith 228,282 Smoker's kit, T. V. Curtis 228,325 Soap and other materials, apparatus for mixing, W., Sr., W., Jr., & A. W. Cornwall 228,320 Soap, machine for mixing materials for making, W., Sr., W., Jr., & A. W. Cornwall 228,319 Soap, process and apparatus for remelting, W., Jr., & A. W. Cornwall 228,321 Soda water, apparatus for generating gas for, J. Collins 228,315 Spark arrester, locomotive, D. P. Wright 228,431 Spool box, C. Tollner 228,289 Stamp, hand, T. Berridge 228,243 Stamp, postage, J. Macdonough 228,365 Steam engine, J. C. Miller 228,374 Steam engine recorder, G. H. Crosby 228,179 Steam generator, N. Eaton 228,250 Stove, A. C. Barstow 228,166 Stove grate, J. Moore, Jr 228,266 Stove, hay, Stocum & Merrill 228,287 Stove, magazine, C. Seavor 228,401 Surface gauge, F. J. Rabbeth 228,391 Swarm catcher, J. W. Bailey 228,299 Syringe attachment, S Turner 228,422 Tackle or pulley block, T. R. Ferrall 228,335 Telephone, S. Russell 228,395 Telephone circuit switch, G. L. Anders 228,294 Telephones, dental attachment for, H. G. Fiske 228,254 Testing machine, T. Olsen 228,214 Textile and other materials, machine for cutting, A. Warth (r) 9,232 Textile fabrics, machine for cutting, A. Warth (r) 9,231 Ticket holder, C. Scherich 228,280 Ticket, railway, F. C. Nims 228,213 Tobacco caddy, R. Finzer 228,182 Tobacco hoisting apparatus, W. S. Guy 228,342 Tongs, pipe, S. Fawcett 228,333 Toy, creeping, P. Von Erichsen 228,231 Treadle mechanism, D. S. Van Wyck 228,424 Treadle power machine, G. W. Ziegler 228,432 Tree protector, J. W. Richards 228,393 Trimmings, flitter for milliners', J. Lambert 228,363 Tube machine, D. Appel 228,162 Valve, balanced, E. D. Meier 228,210 Vapor burner, W. H. Smith (r) 9,227 Vehicle spring, H. M. Keith 228,360 Vent for beer barrels, O. Zwietusch 228,292 Vessels, apparatus for unloading coal, etc., from, Cooney & Swanston 228,317 Vise and clamp, J. Brady 228,245 Wagon, road, C. W. Saladee 228,397 Wagon running gear, G. W. Burr 228,311 Wash boiler, O. Tilton 228,230 Washing and wringing machine, combined, C. H. Wood 228,239 Washing machine, J. B. Pettit 228,272 Water closets, flushing cistern for, S. G. McFarland 228,264 Water heater, K. McDonald 228,208 Water heater, fireplace, I. B. Potts 228,388 Whiffletree hook, E. Hanrahan 228,345 Windlass locking gear, Remington & Manton (r) 9,233 Windmill, A. H. Smith 228,283 Window screen, R. Perrin 228,384 Wire stretcher, H. Hemenway 228,350 Wood bit, L. Thuston 228,421 * * J. J. CALLOW. keywords: address; air; american; apparatus; boiler; class; co.; company; etc; exhibit; feet; fire; form; gas; illustration; iron; judges; light; line; machine; machinery; making; mass; means; new; new york; number; order; packing; paper; patent; power; pressure; price; process; report; scientific; sound; steam; street; time; use; watches; water; work; years; york; | +; | | cache: 38482.txt plain text: 38482.txt item: #15 of 37 id: 40276 author: Hale, Edward Everett title: Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends date: None words: 89448 flesch: 69 summary: Like many other such men, however, from his time down to Ericsson, he came to the front when he was needed, and served Syracuse better than her speech-makers. Here, with workmen brought with him from Italy, he began many great works. keywords: air; archimedes; art; bacon; bessemer; boiler; book; business; cotton; cylinder; day; edgeworth; end; engine; england; experiments; father; fire; france; fritz; fulton; glasses; good; great; half; hand; head; house; invention; iron; life; locomotive; machine; making; man; means; metal; miles; new; order; people; piston; place; power; purpose; set; sir; state; steam; steel; stephenson; success; telegraph; things; thought; time; uncle; use; water; watt; way; wheels; whitney; work; working; world; years; | | cache: 40276.txt plain text: 40276.txt item: #16 of 37 id: 40782 author: Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) title: Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology date: None words: 144781 flesch: 62 summary: Many other _materia medica_ specimens were transferred from the Department of Agriculture. The following applies to all of the Papers: Italic emphasis denoted as _Text_. keywords: acid; air; american; apparatus; association; baltimore; battery; bertolla; boiler; bollman; borghesi; bridge; carriage; center; century; charles; clock; coast; collection; company; construction; courtesy; day; deck; der; design; development; dial; distance; division; double; drawing; driving; duryea; earth; effect; engine; engineering; experiments; father; feet; figure; following; footnote; form; frame; frank; fulton; gear; general; geodetic; gravity; half; hand; history; hull; illustration; inches; institution; invariable; iron; john; journal; june; knife; left; length; letter; line; london; long; machine; means; medical; medicine; method; model; moon; museum; national; navy; needle; new; number; observations; original; paper; paris; patent; peirce; pendulum; period; pharmaceutical; phosphate; phosphorus; photo; pioneer; plan; plate; point; present; railroad; report; right; river; rock; screw; second; section; september; shield; ship; showing; smithsonian; states; steam; sun; support; survey; system; technology; theory; time; truss; tunnel; tunneling; u.s; united; valve; vessel; vol; washington; water; wheel; wire; work; years; york cache: 40782.txt plain text: 40782.txt item: #17 of 37 id: 43282 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.—No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878 date: None words: 39687 flesch: 70 summary: ====================================================================== VOL. ====================================================================== O. D. MUNN. keywords: = =; address; air; american; apparatus; carbon; case; cents; co.; coal; cost; country; day; dust; edison; end; engraving; eve; feet; form; gas; hand; illustration; iron; light; little; machine; machinery; means; metal; new; new york; number; office; paper; patent; pot; power; pressure; price; production; second; states; steam; street; sun; surface; telephone; temperature; time; tube; use; water; wood; work; working; world; year; york cache: 43282.txt plain text: 43282.txt item: #18 of 37 id: 43391 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 Volume LIV, No. 2, December 1898 date: None words: 70234 flesch: 63 summary: Yet not only do equatorial men recognize the existence of the year as a natural epoch quite as much as other men--not only do equatorial savages celebrate annual feasts, count ages by years, and perform certain rites in certain months only--but also animal and vegetable nature recognizes the year; trees have their month for blossoming and fruiting, birds their month for assuming the plumage of courtship, for nesting and hatching, almost as markedly as elsewhere. Yet the brains of Daniel Webster, Agassiz, Napoleon I, Lord Byron, Baron Dupuytren, General Skoboleff, and other famous men concerning whose large brains much has been said, weighed less than this; and we might have appended hundreds of brain weights of idiots, imbeciles, and other insignificant persons, from 53 ounces down to 49 ounces--probably about the average weight in central Europe. keywords: american; animals; area; average; body; brain; bushels; case; children; company; conditions; country; day; england; english; europe; fact; feet; food; form; general; geological; geology; half; hand; head; hitchcock; human; inches; jews; land; leaves; life; light; london; man; matter; men; miles; new; new york; north; number; order; ounces; people; period; place; plants; population; present; professor; river; russia; school; science; seasons; size; south; square; states; study; subject; summer; sun; supply; time; united; use; village; water; way; weight; wheat; william; winter; work; world; years; york; | | cache: 43391.txt plain text: 43391.txt item: #19 of 37 id: 44097 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899 Volume LIV, No. 3, January 1899 date: None words: 71577 flesch: 62 summary: These caves serve in winter for hibernation, and at other times for the purpose that will be explained. When President Eliot, of Harvard University, says that the experience of the Italian republics has no value for us, it is not to be expected that persons with less capacity to interpret the records of other times should attach little or no importance to them. keywords: age; alligator; american; animals; attention; book; case; century; chemistry; child; children; city; colonies; company; country; course; day; development; early; earth; earthquakes; england; english; eye; eyes; fact; fig; food; form; general; hand; head; history; illustration; jews; kekulé; kind; knowledge; land; life; man; matter; mind; movements; natural; nature; new; number; people; period; physical; place; plants; present; professor; reading; results; school; science; soil; south; states; students; study; subject; surface; system; taxation; taxes; theory; time; type; united; university; view; water; way; work; world; years; york cache: 44097.txt plain text: 44097.txt item: #20 of 37 id: 44188 author: Baker, Ray Stannard title: Boys' Second Book of Inventions date: None words: 41956 flesch: 67 summary: At first few would believe the reports, but when Thomas A. Edison, Graham Bell, and other great inventors and scientists had expressed their confidence in Marconi's achievement, the whole country, was ready to hail the young inventor with honours. It is in the work of exploring these regions of great heat that such men as Moissan, Siemens, Faure, and others have made such remarkable discoveries, reaching temperatures as high as 7,000, or over twice the heat of boiling steel. keywords: air; balloon; current; cylinder; dumont; earthquake; england; experiments; feet; furnace; great; heat; hewitt; illustration; inventor; iron; light; lighthouse; man; marconi; means; miles; milne; motor; new; nitrogen; power; professor; radium; santos; sea; set; ship; soil; time; water; waves; way; work; world; years cache: 44188.txt plain text: 44188.txt item: #21 of 37 id: 44297 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 date: None words: 72157 flesch: 63 summary: It is a melancholy reflection, says the report of the New York State tax commission, dwelling upon the desperate efforts of people to escape the aggressions committed on them and disclosing the observance of a code of ethics committed in every walk in life, that in this Christian age neither the memory of early moral training, nor present religious profession, hopes or fears for the hereafter, the penalties of the law, nor any other possible considerations are sufficient to restrain the average possessor of personal property from forcing other men to pay the taxes for which he is justly liable, by methods unquestionably immoral, if not absolutely criminal. I urge this duty, not because its diligent discharge will obviously tell in your examinations, but because it will give you that scientific culture which, while enabling you to appreciate and enjoy the successive advances of other sciences than that which you may select for special cultivation, will at the same time increase your general usefulness and aid you in your own researches. keywords: age; american; author; breeding; business; case; cent; century; company; conditions; countries; country; course; day; education; europe; eyes; fact; form; general; gold; government; great; greek; half; herd; history; increase; knowledge; laws; life; light; literature; man; matter; means; men; methods; modern; money; nature; new; number; observation; past; pelagic; people; place; point; politics; power; present; prison; production; public; question; report; science; sea; slavs; social; south; species; states; study; subject; system; time; turks; united; university; value; view; war; way; women; work; world; years; york; | | cache: 44297.txt plain text: 44297.txt item: #22 of 37 id: 44544 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899 date: None words: 77736 flesch: 64 summary: In this, as in many other developments of the theory of evolution, the factor of mental energy, which is the prime factor in all material production, may have been or is almost wholly ignored. | 125,150 square miles. keywords: action; agriculture; air; american; birds; body; care; case; children; company; conditions; consciousness; country; day; development; dreams; experience; fact; feet; find; forms; general; good; hand; high; history; iron; knowledge; land; language; large; life; line; man; mar; matter; means; methods; miles; mind; nature; new; north; number; people; place; plants; present; product; production; professor; public; report; revenue; school; science; sea; ship; south; species; square; state; study; subject; throat; time; united; use; water; way; whale; wheat; white; work; world; years; york; | april; | feb; | | cache: 44544.txt plain text: 44544.txt item: #23 of 37 id: 44725 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899 Volume LVI, No. 1 date: None words: 67641 flesch: 59 summary: After saying that the Royal Society is the Academy of Sciences in England, and that in its publications appear accounts of all the most important scientific discoveries in England and most of those in Scotland, Ireland, and other parts of Europe, he goes on to state that he examined the Transactions of this society for three years and discovered that out of the 5,480 pages published in that time 2,418 were contributed by Cambridge men and 1,324 by residents. The actors' and supers' dressing rooms, which are often overcrowded, require efficient ventilation, and other parts of the building, like the foyers and the toilet, retiring and smoking rooms, must not be overlooked. keywords: air; american; animals; association; author; book; cambridge; cases; century; country; current; day; diamonds; dogs; electric; end; fact; feet; fish; floor; food; form; general; good; history; illustration; insect; jack; knowledge; life; light; man; matter; means; men; method; milk; nature; new; number; order; parts; people; place; plants; point; poisoning; present; professor; public; results; science; society; spark; species; stage; states; study; subject; system; theater; time; united; university; use; ventilation; water; way; wire; work; world; writer; years; york cache: 44725.txt plain text: 44725.txt item: #24 of 37 id: 44880 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May 1899 Volume LV, No. 1, May 1899 date: None words: 70377 flesch: 61 summary: The earliest and deepest class impressions are necessarily those which arise out of man's knowledge of himself--of his body and the parts thereof, of his corporeal activities, and of his feelings and thoughts; next, of the bodies of other men and of their movements; finally, in the order of vividness, of the animate and inanimate objects most nearly related to his life. A satisfactory account is given by _C. Francis Jenkins_ in _Animated Pictures_[J] of the development and present state of chronophotography, or the art of conveying by persistence of vision a counterfeit impression of objects in motion through the display in rapid succession of a series of related pictures. keywords: = =; age; air; american; author; book; bronze; case; children; civilization; class; country; course; culture; day; development; england; europe; fact; form; general; good; guilds; hallstatt; hand; heat; history; human; knowledge; labor; laborer; life; liquid; man; means; men; mind; nature; new; number; objects; order; oxygen; pass; pengelly; people; period; place; point; power; present; pressure; process; professor; question; race; science; society; states; stone; study; subject; system; temperature; things; thought; time; trade; type; use; water; way; work; world; years; york; | | cache: 44880.txt plain text: 44880.txt item: #25 of 37 id: 45115 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV date: None words: 67617 flesch: 59 summary: And so it would appear when we seek in vain for any statement which contains the shadow of a justification for the existence of that powerful _précieux_ spirit against which the greater classicists rebelled. In this resolve he elevated the characters to _bourgeois_ rank, and abandoning the empty love rhetoric of the old romances, he brought the acuteness of an analytic mind to bear on the exploitation of the tender passion; and a conscientious though desultory effort is made to study subtle phases of character in the light of surrounding circumstances. keywords: account; american; art; attention; author; book; building; case; century; character; charity; city; color; company; conditions; country; course; day; development; egleston; england; fact; feet; footnote; form; general; good; gorge; green; half; history; human; illustration; insects; institutions; interest; life; light; literature; man; matter; means; men; mind; money; nature; need; new; niagara; north; number; parts; people; persons; point; present; products; professor; progress; public; purpose; question; rate; results; river; school; science; shakespeare; societies; society; south; species; states; study; subject; thought; time; united; use; value; water; way; work; world; years; york cache: 45115.txt plain text: 45115.txt item: #26 of 37 id: 45269 author: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell) title: Inventions of the Great War date: None words: 68653 flesch: 72 summary: Like the scout, the spotter had to be a fast climber, so that it could get out of the range of enemy guns and run away from attacking planes. [Illustration: (C) Underwood & Underwood The Flying-tank--an Armored German Airplane designed for firing on troops on the march] Early in the war, large guns were mounted on airplanes, but the shock of the recoil proved too much for the airplane to stand. keywords: air; airplane; american; battle; big; boat; british; course; depth; distance; end; enemy; feet; fire; french; gas; germans; great; ground; gun; guns; illustration; inch; light; lines; machine; men; miles; new; pressure; range; sea; set; shell; ship; submarine; surface; tank; target; time; torpedo; use; vessel; war; water; way; wire; work cache: 45269.txt plain text: 45269.txt item: #27 of 37 id: 45361 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899 date: None words: 71113 flesch: 63 summary: The crimes which have been committed by white men, in avenging real or supposed crimes committed by black men, stamp a character of utter savagery on the communities in which they have occurred, and in which they have remained unpunished. Such high water could, with the existing configuration of the land surface, hardly define any other feature than that of a large interior sea or of a series of lake basins; and while it may be argued that there has been sufficient degradation of the land surface since the period of the height of water to permit us to reconstruct a contour that would be in harmony with altered and reduced river courses, and relieve us from the necessity of invoking the assistance of lacustrine bodies in a solution of the problem, it does not seem to me likely that this has been the case. keywords: acetylene; air; american; animal; attention; author; black; book; carbide; case; character; color; company; conditions; day; days; development; education; eldorado; fact; feet; fishes; flowers; form; gas; general; gold; good; hand; history; interest; knowledge; life; light; man; matter; men; method; mind; nature; negro; new; north; number; parts; people; period; place; point; power; present; professor; public; question; race; reason; region; river; science; south; state; study; subject; surface; things; thought; time; university; use; water; way; whale; white; work; world; years; yellow; york; young; | | cache: 45361.txt plain text: 45361.txt item: #28 of 37 id: 45938 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, August 1899 Volume LV date: None words: 70829 flesch: 56 summary: The objects of the parent protective association--to secure justice for women and children, to give legal advice free of charge, and to extend moral support to the wronged and helpless--appealed forcibly to practical philanthropists, and there now exist similar agencies in many other large cities in America, such as Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, and San Francisco. Professor Ripley throws some doubt upon the possibility of such large numbers as those of the Polish Jews having been derived from Germany. keywords: american; animals; association; attention; building; children; class; conditions; country; course; day; development; education; england; fact; footnote; form; general; government; half; history; interest; jews; law; lessons; life; liquor; man; men; museum; national; natural; nature; new; new york; number; people; place; point; present; professor; property; public; question; race; report; results; ripley; school; science; series; society; spencer; state; study; subject; system; tax; teachers; time; united; university; way; women; work; world; years; york cache: 45938.txt plain text: 45938.txt item: #29 of 37 id: 46383 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 date: None words: 67503 flesch: 64 summary: _Sterilized_ milk has been used for many years. These are the preparation of _sterilized_ and _Pasteurized_ milk. keywords: african; american; bacteria; blue; bombay; cases; cent; children; cities; city; class; company; conditions; country; course; days; disease; fact; families; family; fish; flowers; following; form; general; good; illustration; institute; land; law; lessons; life; liquor; making; man; matter; means; men; method; milk; nature; new; north; number; people; place; plague; present; professor; public; question; red; results; schmidt; school; science; species; state; study; subject; supply; temperature; time; tuskegee; united; use; water; way; white; work; years; yellow; york cache: 46383.txt plain text: 46383.txt item: #30 of 37 id: 46473 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1900 Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900 date: None words: 48647 flesch: 62 summary: Balzac, that master analyst, in alluding to friendship, in one of his stories, says: It died (the friendship) like other great passions--by a misunderstanding. In an address delivered before the alumni of Hamilton College in 1888 he maintained that we were living in a revolutionary period, which is marked by a great advance in knowledge and a vastly larger control of the forces of Nature; by a large increase in freedom of thought and action; by a sudden and remarkable addition to the mobility of man, accompanied by an unexampled growth of great cities; and by an incalculable addition to the wealth of the world. keywords: air; american; asphalt; body; century; changes; conditions; conductor; country; day; development; earth; fact; forms; general; geological; geology; good; hand; history; idea; illustration; left; life; man; men; new; number; orton; pavement; people; periods; place; point; power; present; professor; public; question; right; salamander; sand; science; sense; slaves; states; street; subject; surface; system; time; use; view; water; way; work; world; years; york cache: 46473.txt plain text: 46473.txt item: #31 of 37 id: 46710 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 date: None words: 74526 flesch: 62 summary: Dr. Pepper received his educational training solely in the city of his birth, having graduated from the college department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1862, in the same class with Provost Charles C. Harrison, Thomas McKean, Dr. Persifor Fraser, and many other men prominent in university circles. The science of agriculture is understood by him to consist of a mingling of chemistry, geology, botany, entomology, physiology, bacteriology, and other sciences in so far as they have any bearing upon agriculture. keywords: acres; american; area; association; case; children; christian; city; company; crookes; day; education; fact; footnote; form; general; good; history; human; interest; knowledge; land; life; man; matter; medical; meeting; men; method; mind; nature; new; number; pepper; place; point; power; present; principles; property; public; purpose; questions; reason; schools; science; section; sir; social; society; sociology; states; study; system; table; tax; thought; time; united; university; use; value; water; way; wheat; work; world; years; york cache: 46710.txt plain text: 46710.txt item: #32 of 37 id: 47024 author: Various title: Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1899 Vol. LVI, November, 1899 to April, 1900 date: None words: 65926 flesch: 58 summary: The director of an observatory always knows where he is located in a sense that few other men do. In the first place, the watch could hardly be made to keep such time if kept still in an unchanging temperature; secondly, it is still less capable of it when subjected to the jolting and changes of temperature it encounters when carried; and, thirdly, the means of obtaining time with sufficient exactitude are rarely available to the general public. keywords: agricultural; american; art; body; book; business; cape; century; clock; coast; college; company; country; course; day; development; education; electricity; fact; feet; field; footnote; form; general; good; government; great; half; hand; high; history; house; illustration; increase; instruction; knowledge; land; life; man; matter; means; men; methods; mind; new; news; newspaper; north; number; papers; people; place; present; press; professor; public; report; schools; science; society; south; special; states; statistics; stones; students; study; subject; time; united; university; walls; water; work; world; years; york cache: 47024.txt plain text: 47024.txt item: #33 of 37 id: 60462 author: Fontenay, Charles L. title: Conservation date: None words: 6275 flesch: 82 summary: John Gray, executive officer of the starship Discovery, returned from a colonizing mission to Deneb III, said John, holding out his hand. In the courts of Earth, a case can be decided only on the evidence presented, said Third Sarge Elfor when John had offered his brief defense for the quartet. keywords: ann; car; earth; elfor; fran; john; phil; sarge; ship; time cache: 60462.txt plain text: 60462.txt item: #34 of 37 id: 61055 author: Blackford, Charles Minor title: The Valley of the Masters date: None words: 7345 flesch: 93 summary: His sin was curiosity--his crime was witchcraft--but Henry's real offense against his strange world was that it was dying--and he wanted it to live! ] Henry stopped and squatted in the underbrush, well hidden from the path but close enough to see the coming group. keywords: door; eyes; henry; house; ole; ones; theta; valley cache: 61055.txt plain text: 61055.txt item: #35 of 37 id: 6139 author: Severing, Paul title: Marvels of Modern Science date: None words: 45621 flesch: 67 summary: In many other places throughout these lands, deep students of Biblical lore are pushing on the work of excavation and daily adding to our knowledge concerning the peoples and nations in whom posterity must ever take a vital interest. If there are myriads of other worlds, thousands, millions of them in point of magnitude greater than ours, what concern say they has the Creator with our little atom of matter? keywords: air; building; chapter; construction; day; deck; distance; earth; electric; electricity; energy; ether; fact; feet; fire; guns; horse; inches; length; life; light; machine; man; matter; means; miles; motor; new; place; potato; power; present; pressure; radium; rate; rock; room; science; second; ship; space; speed; stars; state; steel; surface; system; time; tons; tunnel; use; water; waves; way; wireless; work; world; years; york cache: 6139.txt plain text: 6139.txt item: #36 of 37 id: 8951 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 42013 flesch: 62 summary: J. R. Cole, Kenton Station, Tenn.--The object of this invention is to construct a machine which, by the application of but little power, will raise a stream of water to any desired hight, to furnish motive power for machinery or for other purposes. 2d, In combination with the base or heating-surface, D, the chambers, b b', and diaphragm, E, or their equivalents, substantially as arranged and described, and for the purposes shown. keywords: 1st; 4th; air; application; arm; arms; arrangement; assignor; b b; bar; box; chamber; city; claim; combination; connection; construction; cutter; cylinder; end; feet; frame; handle; head; invention; lever; machine; manner; mass; means; n.y; new; operating; parts; piece; pipes; plate; purpose; rake; rod; screw; series; set; shaft; spring; steam; use; water; west; wheel; work; york cache: 8951.txt plain text: 8951.txt item: #37 of 37 id: 8952 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 65043 flesch: 69 summary: 3,211.--BORING TOOL.--Alexander Allen, New York city. 3,219.--WEIGHING MACHINE.--M. Kennedy, New York city. keywords: address; air; american; application; arrangement; article; assignor; boiler; boston; box; case; circular; city; co.; conn; construction; day; dec; design; end; engine; england; feet; fire; form; frame; general; good; gun; half; hand; head; heat; illustration; improvements; invention; iron; john; journal; lbs; length; line; list; little; machine; machinery; manner; manufacture; mass; matter; means; n.y; new; new york; notes; number; object; office; ohio; paper; parts; patent; patented; philadelphia; pipe; place; position; power; practice; pressure; price; purpose; sale; saw; saws; science; scientific; set; state; steam; subject; time; use; water; way; weight; wheels; wood; work; world; year cache: 8952.txt plain text: 8952.txt