[Letter] To the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, etc / [Samuel Clegg].

  • Samuel Clegg
Date:
[1819]
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Credit: [Letter] To the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, etc / [Samuel Clegg]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( Copy, ) To the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, - — - Manufactures, 8$c. 8$c. GENTLEMEN, I respectfully apologize for further obtruding myself on your attention : but, as I understand that Mr* Malam’s application to be rewarded for his stated invention and improve¬ ment in the Gas Meter has been again referred to a Committee ; and, as I am further satisfied that you have been greatly de- ceived in respect to the merits of Mr. Malam on the subject in question, I consider it a duty I owe to myself and to your Society to give you every information in my power, to enable you to come to the most correct judgment before your final resolution. In giving you this information, I shall take the liberty to state to you, with dates, a brief outline of the several inven¬ tions I have made in Gas Apparatus ; from which statement, those, in the least acquainted with the subject, will perceive how large a portion of my plans are now in use with the Public without any profit to myself. In the year 1805, I lighted with gas a cotton mill in York¬ shire : this being the first mill thus lit in the kingdomIn 1809, I had the honor to receive from your Society a medal for a drawing of a Gas Apparatus. In 1810, I invented the JLime Machine for absorbing the sulphurated hydrogen from the coal gas ; which machine l first used in lighting Stoneyhurst College in Lancashire, and this machine is now in general use. In 1811, I invented the mode of insulating the Retorts from each other, by what are called the Hydraulic Pipes: this con¬ trivance I first applied in lighting a cotton manufactory in im yp i*fLl9»£r . > * (t.i < L ksttii * It is generally supposed that the Mill of Messrs. Phillips and Lee, of Manchester, was first lit by Mr, Murdock, but this is erroneous.
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