Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

  • Royal Society of Arts
Date:
1758
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Grain Cloth ; with Condition to declare how much the Dying qqR: per Yard ; to be pro¬ duced on or before the Third IVednefday in December 1759, 20 /. 43. For the Difcovery of any cheap Com-Sheep Mark pofition, of a very drong and lading Co-ing. lour, for marking of Sheep, which will indure and bear the Weather a proper Time, and not damage the Wool, as Pitch, Tar, do ; to be produced on or before the Fird IVednefday in February 1759, 20 /. 44. As a cheap and eifedual Compofition Ships Bottom for lecuring Ships Bottoms from Worms and other externa] Injuries would be of great Ad¬ vantage to the Public, in regard to the Pre- fervation both of Merchant Ships and of Ships of War ; it was propofed (in the Year 1757) to give for the bed and cheaped Compofition, which on fufEcient Tryals, made by the Inventor, ffiould appear mod effedual for lecuring Ships Bottoms from Worms and other Injuries, to be produced on or before the Fird IVednefday in February 1760, 50 L But as the Inventor or Inventors of inch Compofition might be uncertain what Trials to make, or find the making of them diffi¬ cult, the Society thought proper to take that trouble upon themfelves, and accord¬ ingly notified the fame by feveral Adver- tifements, to the Effed following, viz. Six Planks of Oak (cut out of the fame Piece of Timber) mud be provided by each Candidate for this Premium, each Plank be¬ ing three Feet long, one Foot wide, and two Inches thick. Four of the faid Planks B ' mud
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