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INJELLIGENCE RESPECTING ARTS. ^ 

 Machine for making candles. 



Britain is daily making improvements in arts by means 

 of machinery j there are still greater inducements for ex- 

 jertioiis in this line in America, as labour is there extreme- 

 Jy dear in proportion to the necefsaries of life. A manu- 

 facturer in Philadelphia has lately announced an invention 

 of his own, by which, with the af^istance of an apparatus 

 adapted for the purpose, one person can make as many 

 candles as ten could do an the ordinary way. He does 

 not explain either the principle, or any circumstance 

 respecting this machine, that can lead to a discovery of 

 its nature, contenting himself with barely announcing these J 

 particulars. '■ 



Many are the ans that still remain to be perfected in 

 Britain, by means of machinery 5 and it is not to be 

 doubted, but ingenious men will turn their attention to 

 that subject, and gradually perfect them in that way. A- 

 mong these, it may not be improper to mention two ma- 

 nufactures in particular, that seem to be peculiarly suscep- 

 tible of improvement by machinery, m%. type-founding, 

 and paper-mjiking. At present, the method of casting 

 types in single letters at a time, by the hand, is a slow, 

 awkward, expensive, and unwholesome procefs ; and there 

 can be no doubt but a machine might be contrived to 

 lift the metal, pour it out, give the jerk necefsary in the 

 procefs, and ftiake out the types with much more steadi- 

 nefs, accuracy, and precision, than It can be done at pre- 

 sent. This wiU be said to be Impofsible, till it be actual- 

 ly done. 

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