James White
A New Century of Inventions
Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664621740
Table of Contents
A DYNAMOMETER; OR, Machine for measuring Power and resistance while in Motion .
OF A NEW KIND OF BARREL SPRING, To lengthen the going of Clocks, Jacks, &c.
OF A PARALLEL MOTION, Being a combination of the Crank with the Epicycloid .
OF A SYSTEM OF CONCENTRIC PULLEYS, Already known as White’s Patent Pulleys .
OF A POWER-WHEEL, Turned by heated Air, Gas, &c.
OF AN EQUABLE PUMP, Or Machine for raising Water without interruption or concussion .
OF A SIMPLE MACHINE, For Protracting the Motions of Weight-Machinery .
OF AN INSTRUMENT For drawing Portions of Circles, and finding their Centres by inspection .
OF AN INCLINED HORSE WHEEL, Intended to save room and gain speed .
OF A DIFFERENTIAL COMBINATION OF WHEELS, To count very high numbers, or gain immense power .
OF A CRANE, Which combines VARIABLE POWERS with speed and safety .
OF A DIRECT AND DIFFERENTIAL PRESS, With two Powers: of which ONE immense .
OF A PERISTALTIC MACHINE, For raising much Water to small heights .
OF A DRAYMAN’S CANTER, Or inclined Plane with increased Power .
OF A PERPETUAL WEDGE MACHINE, Being a simple Method of gaining Power.
OF A MACHINE, To promote Evaporation, with or without Heat .
OF A CUTTING OR GRATING MACHINE, For Green Roots, Tobacco, &c.
OF A SCREW, With greatly diminished Friction .
OF A SIMPLE AND POWERFUL MICROMETER.
SYNOPSIS, (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) OF THE CENTURY OF INVENTIONS COMPOSING THIS WORK.
MEMOIR ON A NEW SYSTEM OF COG OR TOOTHED WHEELS,
OF THE CUTTING ENGINE, To form Spur-wheels, on my late Patent principle .
OF A DOOR-SPRING, To keep a Door strongly closed, yet suffer it to be opened easily .
OF A DRAW-BENCH, For making my twisted Pinions .
OF A GEERING CHAIN, Formed to work in the Patent Wheels .
OF A SERPENTINE BOAT OR VESSEL, To lessen the Expence of Traction, &c.
OF A MACHINE For destroying, or lessening Friction .
OF A SECOND MACHINE, To avoid or diminish Friction .
OF AN EQUILIBRIUM COCK, To prevent abrasion and leakage .
OF A MACHINE To communicate and suspend Motion .
OF A MACHINE To set on, and suspend, rapid Motions .
OF A MACHINE For forging Screws, Beads, &c.
OF A DIFFERENTIAL STEEL-YARD, To weigh vast Weights with short Levers .
OF A RETROGRAPH, Or a Machine to write backwards, for Engravers .
OF AN EYE MACHINE, Or Machine for making the Eyes of Hooks and Eyes .
OF A VENTILATOR, Rotatory yet by pressure .