Liil of Patents fur Neiv Inventions, 3-29 



To Thomas Mead, of ScoU-slreet, in the parish of Scul- 

 coates, in the county of York, engineer, for his method or 

 methods of makinu; and constructing circular or rotative 

 steam engines, upon an entire new principle, and employ- 

 ing the elastic or expansive force of steam in a much 

 more efficacious and advantageous manner than has hitherto 

 been done. August 24. 



To Wdiiam Congrcve, of Garden-court, in the Temple, 

 in the county of Middlesex, esq., for his new principle of 

 measuring time, and constructnig clocks and chronometers. 

 August 24. 



To Jt)seph Cuff the younger, of Whitechapel, iti the 

 county of Middlesex, cheesemonger and bacon merchant, 

 for certain machinery for the more easy expeditious and 

 better method of slaughtering hogs, bullocks, and other 

 cattle, whereby much labour will be saved, and the flesh of 

 such cattle greatly improved in qualitv, and will l;e more 

 easily and better cured and preserved. August 25. 



To John Dumbell, of Mersey Mills, in the parish of 

 Warrington, and county palatine of Lancaster, mdier, for 

 his new method or methods of fla.x spinning, and of |)repa- 

 ring or making a special twist, thread, furniture, cloth, 

 frills, or attire, which he calls telary tegumenls from silk, 

 wool, cotton, flax, hemp, or tow, as well as from a very 

 great variety of other articles, (in a cotTibined or uncom- 

 ■ bined state.) and for a metiiod or methods of reiabricatino- 

 or renovating the same, and of producing or reproducing; 

 from tatters in general a new body. August ^-ib. 



ERRRATA. 

 Page 38, line 5 from top, for " Boreal " rrad •' Coiisal:'' line 12 fr,:Tn bcil- 

 tpm, for " as tUc miners call it " read " ;is the miners here c:Ul it." Pagf- -lo, 

 line 20, for " concoctioni" read " concretioivs." Pag-e 127, line 19, for 

 " Fio-. &, Plate IV." read " Fi^ 8, Plate III." 



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