List of Patents . 
159 
•fames Fennel, Sept. 24, mode of making salt. 
Joshua Hatheway, Oct. 29, improvement in hydraulics. 
J. Wardrop, Nov. 5, improvement in a threshing machine. 
John Kincaid, Nov. 25, improvement in stills. 
Apollos Kinsley, Dec. 20, tempering mortar and making bricks. 
List of English Patents .* 
1796. 
Michael Bowman, March 1 ; for a truss for the prevention and 
cure of ruptures. 
Lord William Murray, March 8 ; for the invention and discovery 
of extracting starch from horse-chesnuts, 
John Atkinson, March 8 ; for the application of certain materials 
to make white paint. 
Robertson Buchanan, March 8 ; for a pump for raising water in 
various situations. 
Robert Salmon, March 8 ; for an improvement in certain ma- 
chines for weighing goods, &c. 
Major Pratt, March 1 1 ; for a certain composition to answer the 
purpose of mill-stones. 
William Woods, March 17 ; for a hand-pump for raising water 
out of ships, and other places, by which a greater quantity of water 
can be raised in less time than by any other pump now in use. 
Richard Varley, March 17 ; for an improved method of carding, 
roving, and spinning cotton, wool, &c. 
John Gregory Hancock, April 6 ; for paper ornamented by em- 
bossing and enchasing. 
Samuel Godfrey, April 6 ; for a machine to relieve the labour of 
animals, in draft or burden. 
William Moorcroft, April 1 6 ; for an improved and expeditious 
method of making horse-shoes, Sec. 
Patrick Miller, May 3 ; for the invention of a vessel on a new 
construction, which draws less water than any other vessel of the 
same dimensions, which cannot founder at sea, and which is put in 
motion, in calms and light winds, -by a method never before pratised 
(To be continued .) 
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