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Title: The Practical mechanic's journal
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Subjects: Technology
Publisher: Glasgow, Scotland : Practical Mechanic's Journal and Patent Office
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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down or fibres, capable of being spun, the remnants or cuttings, or otherwaste pieces of silk or other fabrics.—(Communication from Charles Lewandoski,Paris.) DESIGNS FOR ARTICLES OF UTILITY. Begistered from \ith July, to 6th August, 1860. July 14th, 4275 William Calcott, Park Village East, Regents Park, N7W.—A re-flector of scenic effects.18th, 4276 Henry English, Bedditcli—Crotchet needle.lJtb, 4277 Thomas Edward Whiting, 14 Owens Row, Goswell Road, E.C.— The regulating pencil. . , 21st, 4278 George Sturrock, Brompton, Kent—Portable comluned sitting rifle-rest and chair.23rd, 4279 John William Mutt, Lea Bridge Road, Clapton, N.E.— A pouch, or purse, for containi. g tobacco and other articles.27th, 42S0 Thomas Fletcher, Long Eaton, Derbysbiie, and Joseph Fletcher,Ison Green, near Nottingham— Scissors.Aug. 1st, 4281 Victor Isaac Hazelton, The Dukes Arms, Upper Marsh, Lambeth,S.— Svringe ring. „ 6th, 4282 Morris and Yeoman, Astwood Bank, near Redditch— Needle case.
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5 Si m o h- \ri ^ ^3 3 -< Del r 1,1S60. THE PRACTICAL MECHANICS JOURNAL. 169 GAS HOLDER. By Messes. T. & B. Poktek & Co., Gas Engineers. Lincoln. (Illustrated by Plate 262.) Sixce the great industrial congress of 1851 the application of the finearts to purposes of utility has been fostered and greatly extended inthis country. It has been affirmed that utility should never besacrificed to taste, neither should one be ignored for the sake of theother, but be united and blended together in pleasing harmony. Ourmanufacturers appear now to aim at the development of this principle;and there is a growing disposition to adopt the beautiful or ornate designfor ordinary utilitarian purposes, which tends at once to refine the tasteand cultivate a love of the beautiful, and approximate to the forms ofnature, whose commonest production is one of utility and beauty in theirpurest combination. The illustration which we present, in plate 262, is an example of theseremarks in the applicatio

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