The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 53

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M. Salmon, 1850 - Industrial arts
 

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Page 263 - ... which I may appeal to the testimony of mankind in general, — which is so much the more valuable inasmuch as it may be accounted the testimony of adversaries, — for the generality have a strong predilection in...
Page 491 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this Act, with regard to any design in respect of the application thereof to ornamenting any article of manufacture, or any such substance, unless such design have before publication thereof been registered according to this Act...
Page 263 - Now, by Common Sense is meant, I apprehend (when the term is used with any distinct meaning), an exercise of the judgment unaided by any Art or system of rules; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence; in which, having no established principles to guide us — no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out — we must needs act on the best extemporaneous conjectures we can form. He who is eminently skilful in doing this is said to possess a...
Page 263 - A sailor, eg, will perhaps despise the pretensions of medical men, and prefer treating a disease by common sense; but he would ridicule the proposal of navigating a ship by common sense, without regard to the maxims of nautical art.
Page 435 - ... was enrolled, but in every such action or suit the original title and specification alone shall be given in evidence, and deemed and taken to be the title and specification of the invention for which the letters patent have been or shall have been granted...
Page 112 - English law of homicide in this and other respects that he took an active part in the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons for the revision of that law. He was examined as a witness before that committee, and the following is part of his testimony : " ' Then the other point in that section, which is an alteration of the existing law, is one which various persons who have seen the...
Page 488 - It was, I confess, with some surprise, that, after having completed the observations under an impression that they presented great discrepancies from the theoretical expectations, I found the numbers I had noted down indicated in reality an agreement so remarkably close, that I could not but attribute it in some degree to chance, when I reflected on the very rude manner in which the quantitative parts of the experiment (especially the measurement of the pressure, and the evaluation of the division...
Page 492 - Registrar shall be sufficient to identify the particular sculpture, model, copy, or cast, in respect of which registration is desired, and the name of the person claiming to be proprietor, together with his place of abode or business, or other place of address, or the...
Page 433 - IV., c. 83, which provides that any person having obtained letters patent for any invention may enter a disclaimer of any part of his specification or memorandum of any alteration therein, which, when filed, shall be deemed part of such specification.
Page 250 - I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat. For hitherto ye were not able to bear if, neither yet now are ye able ; for ye are yet carnal.

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