The Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 63Robertson, Brooman, and Company, 1855 |
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Page 69 - Lancaster, spinner and doubler, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning and doubling cotton, and other fibrous substances October 9.
Page 469 - Well, we must take things as they are, and make the best of them. So Frank and I walked on through the pleasant fields in the darkening twilight, and I for one enjoyed...
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Page 263 - Improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing cotton and other fibrous substances, for spinning yarns or threads, and for finishing or polishing such yarns or threads.
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Page 320 - ... He regarded it as an established fact that the nautical and engineering difficulties which at first existed had been already overcome, and that the experience gained in submerging the shorter lengths had enabled the projectors to provide for all contingencies affecting the greater.