| 1837 - 800 pages
...steam boat. As far lack as the 21st of December, 1"36, .Mr. Jonathan Hulls took out a patent for " A New-invented Machine for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, uiy Harbour, Port, or River, against irind and tide, or in a calm ;'* and in the fallowing year a pamphlefcftvas... | |
| Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1842 - 348 pages
...In 1737, the first application of steam to navigation was suggested by Jonathan Hulls, in a pamphlet entitled, ' ' A description and draught of a newinvented...or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." His plan of adapting a vertical to a rotatory motion, is shown in the adjoined... | |
| Edward Morris - 1844 - 228 pages
...when Mr. Jonathan Hulls, an Englishman of Exeter, took out a patent for what he termed "a new invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." This scheme ended in no practical good, and very likely the iuventer would... | |
| George May (of Evesham, Eng.) - 1845 - 576 pages
...of his steam-boat, copies of which are now become extremely rare. The title of this publication is "a description and draught of a new-invented machine,...port or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm : by Jonathan Hulls."657 The ridicule with which this attempt was greeted here at the time, is traditionally... | |
| 1845 - 988 pages
...attention of men of mechanical genius. In 1 736, Mr Jonathan Hulls obtained a patent for " a new invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of or into...port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm;" but this scheme did not succeed. In 1781, the Marquis de Fouffroy made some unsuccessful experiments... | |
| Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 pages
...Description and draught of a new-invented machine, for carrying vessels out of, or into any harbor, port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm : for which his majesty George II. has granted letters patent for the sole benefit of the author, for the space of 14 years... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...in December 1736, and published an account of his machine in the following year, under this title " Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships against wind and tide, or in a calm, &c." The " Draught " represents a strong boat, with a smoking... | |
| Luke Hebert - 1846 - 944 pages
...by Hulls, in the same year, under the following title, " A description and draught of a new invented machine for carrying vessels, or ships, out of, or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." His plan was to impart a rotatory movement to a paddle wheel (placed at the... | |
| 1873 - 744 pages
...Hulls, who, in 1737, published a little book, called " A Description and Draught of a new - invented Machine for carrying Vessels or Ships out of or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm." The "Draught," or drawing, represents a boat, with a paddlewheel at the hinder... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1847 - 544 pages
...themselves, there was printed in London a small volume, bearing date 1737, under the following title : — ' Description and Draught of a newinvented Machine for...or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm ; for which his Majesty George II. has granted letters patent for the benefit... | |
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