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Scientific Intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE .
MECHANICS . A VERY great improvement of the steam engine has latel y been - ^ -made by the Rev . Mr . Gartwright , of Mary-le-Bone-Fields , inventor of the wool-combing and other machines . This improvement consists in condensing the steam in a separate vessel , without a jet of cold water ( as used in other engines ) by which means a more
perfect vacuum is obtained , the steam so condensed may be . returned to the boiler , and the constant extrication of a permanently elastic fluid from the water ( sometimes so troublesome as to hinder the engine from working ) is prevented ; as a very little time after the commencement of the boiling the greatest part of the elastic fluid is expelled , ' by a contrivance for chat purpose ; and the water can be used for a
considerable time , there being so little lost in the operation . The whole of an engine , capable of doing the work of two men , may be set up in the corner of a room ; it consumes very little fuel , and can be constructed for a small expence . A very valuable discovery , applicable to innumerable purposes , where a constant power , greater than that of a man , and less than that of a horse , is required .
GUNNERY . IN the Council of Five Hundred , on the 23 d of March , a letter from General Montalambcrt was read , in which he states that he had been able to simplify naval manoeuvres in what concerns cannon . . He has invented a new kind of carriage , on wl ) ich a cannon may be worked with two-thirds fewer men ; so that the heaviest which
guns , at present require fifteen , have occasion for no more than five men , which will tri p le , the number of cannoneers . The manner to be pursued in obtaining this result is developed in a paper transmitted by General Montalambert to the Council .
EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOVERIES . FRLNCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE . ABSTRACT of the proceedings of the class of the Ph ysical Sciences , from the 4 th of Jan . till the 4 th of April . The papers presented to the class of the Ph ysical Sciences of the Institute bits members and associatesduring the last three
, y , months , have been chiefly relating to rural ceconomy , the veterinary art , and chemistry . Hxperiments lately made on horses , sheep , goats , and rabbits , Prove that these animals die speedily , and with convulsions , when diey have eat a certain quantity of the leaves or berries of the yew . Citizen Daubcnton thinks that this tree is dangerous j that it ought T'Ot to be lanted into
transp countries which Nature has preserved . 'rom it ; and that it would be much better to destroy than to cultivate V «" S . gq
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Scientific Intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE .
MECHANICS . A VERY great improvement of the steam engine has latel y been - ^ -made by the Rev . Mr . Gartwright , of Mary-le-Bone-Fields , inventor of the wool-combing and other machines . This improvement consists in condensing the steam in a separate vessel , without a jet of cold water ( as used in other engines ) by which means a more
perfect vacuum is obtained , the steam so condensed may be . returned to the boiler , and the constant extrication of a permanently elastic fluid from the water ( sometimes so troublesome as to hinder the engine from working ) is prevented ; as a very little time after the commencement of the boiling the greatest part of the elastic fluid is expelled , ' by a contrivance for chat purpose ; and the water can be used for a
considerable time , there being so little lost in the operation . The whole of an engine , capable of doing the work of two men , may be set up in the corner of a room ; it consumes very little fuel , and can be constructed for a small expence . A very valuable discovery , applicable to innumerable purposes , where a constant power , greater than that of a man , and less than that of a horse , is required .
GUNNERY . IN the Council of Five Hundred , on the 23 d of March , a letter from General Montalambcrt was read , in which he states that he had been able to simplify naval manoeuvres in what concerns cannon . . He has invented a new kind of carriage , on wl ) ich a cannon may be worked with two-thirds fewer men ; so that the heaviest which
guns , at present require fifteen , have occasion for no more than five men , which will tri p le , the number of cannoneers . The manner to be pursued in obtaining this result is developed in a paper transmitted by General Montalambert to the Council .
EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOVERIES . FRLNCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE . ABSTRACT of the proceedings of the class of the Ph ysical Sciences , from the 4 th of Jan . till the 4 th of April . The papers presented to the class of the Ph ysical Sciences of the Institute bits members and associatesduring the last three
, y , months , have been chiefly relating to rural ceconomy , the veterinary art , and chemistry . Hxperiments lately made on horses , sheep , goats , and rabbits , Prove that these animals die speedily , and with convulsions , when diey have eat a certain quantity of the leaves or berries of the yew . Citizen Daubcnton thinks that this tree is dangerous j that it ought T'Ot to be lanted into
transp countries which Nature has preserved . 'rom it ; and that it would be much better to destroy than to cultivate V «" S . gq