 Besides the advantages already stated, my proposed improvement to the capstan has others of considerable utility. Its construction is so very simple, that it is no more liable to derangement or injury than the capstan itself. Its cost can be but small,...  The Emporium of Arts & Sciences - Page 227edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) - Industrial arts - 1807 - 864 pages
...catch-palls as well as the windlass. Besides the advantages already stated, my proposed im-i provement to the capstan has others of considerable utility....or injury than the capstan itself. Its cost can "be be but small, and every part of it can be made by a common ship carpenter, and be repaired by him at... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1808 - 476 pages
...circumstances will admit ; it should be furnished with catch-palls as well as the windlass. Besides the advantages already stated, my proposed improvement...shot. It will take up but little room, only that of a half-barrel cask ; and it is of a nature so analogous to that kind of machinery to which sailors are... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1808 - 472 pages
...furnished with catch-palls as' well as the windlass. Besides the advantages already stated, my prdposed improvement to the capstan has others of considerable...shot. It will take up but little room, only that of a half-barrel cask ; and it is of a nature so analogous to that kind of machinery to which sailors are... | |
 | William Nicholson - Science - 1808 - 910 pages
...windlass. Farther adTan- Beside the advantages already stated, my proposed invt»je stated. provement to the capstan has others of considerable utility....carpenter, and be repaired by him at sea if damaged by shut. It will take up but little room, only that of a half barret IMS HEW TiRK I DUBLIC LIBRARY \STOR.... | |
 | Agriculture - 1810 - 606 pages
...would permit. Besides its other advantages, indicated above, the construction of this improvement " is so very simple, that it is no more liable to derangement...small, and every part of it can be made by a common shipcarpenter, and be repaired by him at sea if damaged by shot. It will take up but little room, only... | |
 | Physics - 1808 - 794 pages
...circumstances will admit; it should be furnished with catch-palls as well as the windlass. Besides the advantages already stated, my proposed improvement...shot. It will take up but little room, only that of a half-barrel cask ; and it is of a nature so analogous to that kind of machinery to which sailors are... | |
 | Physics - 1808 - 368 pages
...circumstances •will admit ; it should be furnished with catch-palls as well as the windlass.Besides the advantages already stated, my proposed improvement...shot. It will take up but little room, only that of a half-barrel cask ; and it is of a nature so analogous to that kind of machinery to which sailors are... | |
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