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chanical animals) by any means whatever, I will have at them with the hammer of the Law, daſh them to pieces like a potter’s veſſel, claiming under the word condenſer all improvements, let them be what they may. Provided I can prove that a real ſaving is made, it matters not whether the improvement is in the boiler, the fire-place or the flues—by condenſation wholly or in part—by blowing the ſteam in ſome caſes into the open air—by condenſers be they big or little, round or ſquare, ſometimes wholly diſtinct from, and ſometimes joined to, the ſteam veſſel—by ſurrounding the cylinder to keep it hot with any thing or every thing—by applying ſteam the ſame as air in common Engines, with the top of the cylinder open, and ſometimes by ſhutting both its ends—by mounting wheels on axletrees, in form of hollow rings, with a number of valves fixed and cams of metal moving between theſe rings—or by the ſteam being admitted by proper inlets and outlets—and laſtly, ſays he, this ſhall cloſe the ſecrets of my interchangeable lock; I will immerſe one of the principle articles (ſheep’s fat) in ſuch a medley of oils, reſinous bodies, quickſilver, melted metals, &c. that even the abilities of the moſt experienced decypherer ſhall be inadequate to diſcover it.”
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