LIST OF PATENTS.

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W. I-I. James, Birmingham:Steam-carriage.

Sir George Cayley, York:Locomotive apparatus.

John M‘Curpy, London :Tube-boiler. “ One of thesetubes. 11 feet 6 inches long,6 inches diameter at the largerend, and 3 inches at thesmaller, produced as muchsteam as a boiler containing150 cubic feet.” This tubeis placed in a furnace, andwater is forced into it by aforcing pump through a smallpipe called.the injection bar-rel; .“each - chamber withabout a cubic inch of water,injected at every stroke of thepump, will supply an enginehaving a four horse power.”

Philip Taylor, London :Horizontal cylinder—contri-vance to stiffen the piston rod,and lessen the tendency of thegravitating action of the pis-ton to alter the form of thecyinder.

William Foreman, Bath:Steam-wheel.

Pierre Alegre, London:Boiler.

“ The Robert Fulton,steam-ship, completely armed,and tilled with military stores,and navigated by 30 Ameri-can seamen, sailed from Bos-ton, in September, for Greece ;she was a present from thefreemen of America to thefreemen of the Levant.”

John Moore, Bristol: Con-struction.

David Gordon, London:Steam-carriage.

“ Mr. Gordon’s applicationof legs and feet differs from

Mr. Brunton’s (in 1813), in-asmuch as Mr. Brunton usesa pair of feet only with theirleg appendages—these have areciprocating parallel mo-tion, Mr. Gordon’s feet, orrather his carriage feet, aresix in number, forming a con-tinuous series by their beingattached to revolving cranks.

“ The feet are placed in thefore part of the carriage, andraised by a light six throwcrank ; by its revolution theyare forced out against theground in the maimer of thehind legs of a horse—the rodsor ‘ leg bones’ are formedhollow (as in nature); theseiron-rods are filled with wood*(instead of marrow,) to com-bine lightness with strength;the legs are attached to whatmay be considered substitutesfor horses’ feet, although theirform being segments of circlesis very different.” “Theypress against the ground by arolling sort of motion, causinga sufficient adhesion to the sur-face without either slippingor digging it up, and adaptthemselves to any slight turn,of the carriage. The underpart of these feet (query soles)is formed of cork, short hair,whalebone, or any other stiffand elastic material, placedendways and supported byiron teeth, which would takeeffect in the event of the pack-ing failing. In countrieswhere sledges are used fortravelling over snow, the ma-chine jtiajbbe placed on skates ,and the feet shod with suit-able iron teeth,” Snow shoes