Reports of the Late John Smeaton Made on Various Occasions, in the Course of his Employment as a Civil Engineer
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- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- ADVERTISEMENT
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- LETTER from Mr. John Smeatoh to Mr. John Ellicott, F. R. S. concerning fome improvements made by himfelf in the air-pump
- An engine for raifing water by fire, being an improvement of Savery's conftruction, to render it capable of working itfelf, invented by Mr. De Moura, of Portugal, F. R. S. defcribed
- An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea
- An account of some improvements of the mariner's compass, in order to render the card and needle proposed by Dr. Knight, of general use, by John Smeaton, philosophical instrument maker
- An experimental inquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion
- An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest
- New fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies
- A description of a new tackle or combination of pullies
- A discourse concerning the menstrual parallax, arising from the mutual gravitation of the earth and moon, its influence on the observation of the sun and planets, with a method of observing it
- Description of a new method of observing the heavenly bodies, out of the meridian
- Observation of a solar eclipse, the 4th of June, 1769, at the Observatory at Austhorpe, near Leeds, in the county of York
- Account of an observation of the right ascension and declination of Mercury out of the meridian, near his greatest elongation, September, 1786
- Description of an improvement in the application of the quadrant of altitude to a celestial globe, for the resolution of problems dependant on azimuth and altitude
- A description of a new pyrometer, with a table of experiments made therewith
- Description of a new hygrometer
- Observations on the graduation of astronomical instruments; with an explanation of the method invented by the late Mr. Henry Hindley, of York, clock-maker, to divide circles into any given number of parts
- Remarks on the different temperature of the air, at Edystone, from that observed at Plymouth, between the 7th and 8th of July, 1757
- An account of the effects of lightning upon the steeple and church of Lestwithiel, in Cornwall, in a letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclessield, President on the Royal Society
Observations on the graduation of astronomical instruments; with an explanation of the method invented by the late Mr. Henry Hindley, of York, clock-maker, to divide circles into any given number of parts
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- ADVERTISEMENT
- Contents
- LETTER from Mr. John Smeatoh to Mr. John Ellicott, F. R. S. concerning fome improvements made by himfelf in the air-pump
- An engine for raifing water by fire, being an improvement of Savery's conftruction, to render it capable of working itfelf, invented by Mr. De Moura, of Portugal, F. R. S. defcribed
- An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea
- An account of some improvements of the mariner's compass, in order to render the card and needle proposed by Dr. Knight, of general use, by John Smeaton, philosophical instrument maker
- An experimental inquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion
- An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest
- New fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies
- A description of a new tackle or combination of pullies
- A discourse concerning the menstrual parallax, arising from the mutual gravitation of the earth and moon, its influence on the observation of the sun and planets, with a method of observing it
- Description of a new method of observing the heavenly bodies, out of the meridian
- Observation of a solar eclipse, the 4th of June, 1769, at the Observatory at Austhorpe, near Leeds, in the county of York
- Account of an observation of the right ascension and declination of Mercury out of the meridian, near his greatest elongation, September, 1786
- Description of an improvement in the application of the quadrant of altitude to a celestial globe, for the resolution of problems dependant on azimuth and altitude
- A description of a new pyrometer, with a table of experiments made therewith
- Description of a new hygrometer
- Observations on the graduation of astronomical instruments; with an explanation of the method invented by the late Mr. Henry Hindley, of York, clock-maker, to divide circles into any given number of parts
- Remarks on the different temperature of the air, at Edystone, from that observed at Plymouth, between the 7th and 8th of July, 1757
- An account of the effects of lightning upon the steeple and church of Lestwithiel, in Cornwall, in a letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclessield, President on the Royal Society
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- Reports of the Late John SmeatonMade on Various Occasions, in the Course of his Employment as a Civil Engineer, pp. 170 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1814