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Title: Archives of useful knowledge
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Mease, James, M.D
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Publisher: (Philadelphia : Published by David Hogan)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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r, of Amsterdam, Montgomery county, NewYork, in forming, heating, removing, and using metal plates inpressing woollen cloths, February 6. Robert Hancock, sen. and Edward W. Carr, of Philadelphia,in the cottin gm^fej February 6. Lewis Cleveland, of liolliston, Middlesex county, Massachu-setts, in the churn, February 7. John Sanders, of Schenectady, New York, in making ardentspirits out of the juice of southern corn stalks, called the horse-tooth or Virginia corn, February 7. John P. Swain and Jacob Skinner, of Roxbury, Norfolk coun-ty, Massachusetts, a machine for cutting nails or brads, Febru-ary 8. Robert Fulton, of New-York, for constructing boats or vesselswhich are to be navigated by the power of steam engines, Fe-bruary 9. fdj These are part of the various Improvements in t3T5e founding broughtforward by Binny and Ronaldson, and now in operation. fej One of these gins has been sent to North Carolina, but its merits arjBnot yet known. CTo be continued in the next number.J Tcufe WS
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Kl ARCHIVES OP USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Vol. III. OCTOBER, 1812. No. 2. PAPERS ON COMMERCE. Anjiccount and Description of a temporary rudder, invented byCafitain William Mugford^ of Salemy Massachusetts,* Bead jYcvember 16th, 1804. THE ship Ulysses of Salem, (Massachusetts), under the com-mand of captain William Mugford, sailed from that port on the2d day of January 1804, bound to Marseilles. On the 5th ofthat month, being in latitude 41, longitude 65, from the meri^dian of London, she experienced a heavy gale of wind, and whilerunning 8 and 9 knots, a large sea -struck her stern and carriedaway the rudder at the waters edge, when the vessel immedi-ately broached to. The main-mast wa^ sprung and the hull layexposed to every sea. In this unfortunate situation, captainMugford w^s reduced to the necessity of steering the ship withcables over the quarters, for upwards of twenty days, makinghowever the best of his way towards the Western Islands andMadeira. The weather during all this time was ex

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