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On the means of consuming the smoke arising from large 
furnaces, particularly from steam engines - - 3 
Specification of the patent granted to Mr. James Watt, 
for certain newly-improved methods of constructing 
Furnaces or Fire-places, &c. &c. 
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Thomson’s method of consuming smoke 
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Robertson’s do do 
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Of Steam and the Steam Engine 
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Caloric the cause of Fluidity 
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Caloric the cause of Vapour 
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On the Elasticity of Steam 
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Dalton on mixed Gases, &c« 
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on the force of Steam 
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— on vapour from Ether 
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Experiment on Sulphuric Ether 
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Experiments on Spirit of Wine 
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Savery^s Steam Engine 
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Newcomen’s ditto 
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Watt’s ditto 
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■ double engine 
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Cartwright’s steam engine 
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Gregory’s account of steam engines 
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Bollman’s dissertation on Political Economy 
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Hornblower’s engine 
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Accident at 1 revethick’s engine 
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Woolf’s improvements 
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Murray’s portable steam engine 
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Clegg’s portable steam engine 
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Nancarrow’s steam engine 
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Oliver Evans’s steam engine 
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Editor’s remarks on various steam engines 
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