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Blakey, William, 1712-
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A short historical account of the invention, theory, and practice, of fire-machinery; or introduction to the art of making machines, vulgarly called steam-engines. In order to extract Water from Mines, convey it to Towns, and Jets D'Eaux in Gardens. To procure Water-Falls for Fulling, Hammering, Stamping, Rolling, and Corn, Mills, &c. To give Motion to all sorts of Machinery worked by Men or Horses, and bring in and out of Port Vessels in Calms, and against the Wind in moderate Weather. With Two Letters, by the Author, which give an Account how Nature and bad Engineering tend to the Destruction of the Port of Amsterdam; and how the extracting the stagnated and stinking Waters, and bringing fresh to circulate in the Canals of that City, was opposed. By Mr. Blakey.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: Printed in the Year 1793- Books
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Essay on the manner of preserving children and grown persons from ruptures. By Mr. Blakey, ... In four parts. ...
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: 1792- Books
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Observations concerning ruptures, and the treatment of them, By W, Blakey. Of the college of surgeons at Paris. And inventor of the elastic bandages, used in the military hospitals of his most Christian Majesty.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]- Books
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Miscellaneous works, in two parts. Part I. 1. On the Invention and Progress of Fire-Machinery. II. Remarks on the Conclusions of the Academy of Sciences at Peteriburg on the Theory of Fire Engines. III. On the pretended Plagiarisms of the English. IV. On the Properties of Corn Mills in England. Part II. I. A Letter to Prince Galitzin on Ancient and Modern Arts. II. A Second Letter on the same Subject to Monsieur Mauduit. III. A Third to the same on similar Matters. IV. On Ancient Shipping. V. On Weights and Measures in Solids and in Fluids, from an Universal Measure, to be found on the Degrees of the Meridian, and in the specific Gravity of a Fluid.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A comparison of the newly invented corn-mill, with those worked by wind and water, as likewise those worked by Newcomen & Cawley's leaver steam engine: with a short historical account of the invention of fire machinery: and a critical review, or an account of some parts of the leaver engine, which the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at Petersbourg, has crowned for the theory of engines which receive their motion from the force of steam: with the manner to find out an universal measure in solids, as in fluids, and an answer to an ironical conclusion on the English for pirating other peoples' inventions. By Mr. Blakey.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: M DCC LXXXIX. [1789]