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Of Patents . 
John Fitch, August 26, Propelling boats, Sec. by steam, Sec. 
Nathan Read, August 26, Improved boiler of the steam engine. 
Nathan Read, August 26, Improvement in distilling. 
John Stevens, jam August 26, Boiler for generating steam. 
John Stevens, jun. August 26, Improvement in captain Savary’s 
steam engine. 
John Stevens, jun. August 26, application of steam to work 
bellows. 
Englehart Cruse, August 26, Improvement of Savary’s steam 
engine. 
Peter Zacharie, November 24, Machine for clearing docks or 
harbours. 
William Pollard, December 30, Machine for spinning cotton. 
List of English Patents for Inventions , iSfc.* 
William Whitmore, of Birmingham; for an improvement in 
machines for weighing waggons, Sec. Dated January 4, 1796. 
Gabriel Wright, of Leadenhall street ; for improvements in azi- 
muth compasses. Dated January 19, 1796. 
Jasper Augustus Kelly, of the Strand ; for improvements in the 
construction of harnesses, &c. Dated January 19, 1796. 
Edward Thomas Jones, of Bristol ; for a new method of keeping 
accounts. Dated January 26, 1796. 
James Stuard, of St. Anne’s, Limehouse ; for an anchor for ships, 
See. Dated February 4, 1796. 
Joseph Creswell, of St. George’s, Hanover square ; for an im- 
proved pump. Dated February 4, 1796. 
William Paul, of Manchester ; for a new machine for printing 
and staining calicoes, &c. Dated February 4, 1796. 
Edward Cook and Richard Eva, of Falmouth ; for an apparatus 
for taking observations and altitudes, &c. Dated February 9, 1796. 
William Rudder, of Birmingham ; for a method of making metal- 
cocks, so as to prevent leakage. Dated February 16, 1796. 
John Grimshaw, of Strines-Hall, Derbyshire; for the discovery 
of certain vegetable substances for bleaching, &c. Dated February 
17, 1796. 
Richard Scantlebury, of Redruth, Cornwall ; for a new invented, 
bucket for raising or drawing liquids, &c. Dated February 17, 1796 
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