178 COPIES OF WRITTEN PAPER BY PRESSURE. 



Certificates of Certificates were produced from Messrs. Hugh Cross, 

 itsutihty. Matthew Persten, and David Mutrie, dated Glasgow, 

 October 12, 1796", stating that, by appointment of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce in Glasgow, they had inspected the Loom, 

 constructed by Mr. Austin, and were of opinion, that it will 

 be found to contain some ingenious and useful improvements, 

 by producing saving and facility in several of the ordinary 

 operations. 



Messrs. Neil, Macvicar, and Thomas Henderson, of 

 Edinburgh, certified on the 12th of April, 1S04, that they had 

 seen, in the Trustees office there, the model of Mr. Austin's 

 Loom, and thai they thought it ingenious, and the best they 

 had then seen. 



Further Certificate, from Edinburgh, dated April U, 1804, 

 from Mr. John Drummond, and from Messrs. James 

 Reid and John Waugii, partners in the house of Walter 

 Bigger and Co. linen-manufacturers, testify to the ingenuity 

 of Mr. Austin's Loom, and that it is capable of being employed 

 \o the great advantage of the manufactures of this country. 



Mr. Austin having left a complete Working-Model of his 

 Loom with the Society of Arts, &c. a reference to it will con- 

 vey an idea of its principles, better than any description that 

 might be attempted ; as from the variety of minute parts in it, 

 the Committee of the Society have thought it impossible to 

 have a drawing of it, upon their usual scale, which can be ren- 

 dered sufficiently intelligible. 



Observations and Experiments respecting the Art of making 

 Copiet of Written Paper by Pressure. By R. T. 



SIR, 



Copying ma- «£». Few years ago, a Machine, called a Copying Machine, 

 tJline# was offered to the Public for the purpose of obtaining a copy 



from any recently written paper. 



To merchants and others, who are in the habit of writing a 

 great number of letters, &c. of which they wish to have a 



copy 



