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Title: The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Subjects: Architecture Civil engineering Science
Publisher: London : (William Laxton)
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
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jeweller, for a new process ofapplying or fixing letters of metal upon glass, murblo, wood, and other substancw?.—July IS. Chiules Purni*!!, of Liverpool, dock-master, for certain ImproveU apparatus Co beapplied to ti.nher loaded and other vessels laden with materials the specific gravity ofwhich is lighter than water, preveniing the necess ty nf atiandoning them at saa byridding them of the superincumbent water, and enab.ing them thereby to carry sail.—July IS. William Kdivard Neivton, of Chancery-lane, Middlesex, for certain Improveoients inmachinery for letter-press piinting.— July 18. Joseph Stenson, of Norlhampton, engineer, for Improvements in steam-engines andboilers, parts of which improve.nents nre also applicajle to other motive machinery.—July IS. Joham Arnold Steinkamp, o Leicester street. Leicester-square, Middlesex, genrlemmi,for Improvemeuts in the manufacture of sugar from the cane.—July li. ■ z=rrz^ L - h X m ■ ROBERTSS JACqUARD PERFORATING MACHINE. ^ fV
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18M.J THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 967 CANDIDUSS NOTE-BOOK,FASCICULUS LXXXV. ** I must have libertyWithal, as large a charter as the winds.To blow on whom I please.* I. Architects are apt to pay by far too little attention tolocality, aspect, and other circumstances which influence theeffect of buildings;—such, for instance, as distance—too littlespace for obtaining a satisfactory view from any point, or so muchthat it looks diminutive in comparison with what the design,whether shown in a model or a drawing of it (that is, an elevation),promises. Neither the model nor tlie elevation conveys, or canconvey, the slightest idea of locality ; and even if recourse he hadto perspective and pictorial representation, the probability is,that there is a vast deal of imposition passed off under the plausi-ble and innocent name of artistic liberties. Liberties of the kindare, however, sometimes carried so far as to amount to downrightlies—an ugly word, it must be confessed ; bu

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