Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1835, Vol. 16: Devoted to the Mechanic Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions

As the experimental results directly obtained may possibly prove of value to others than the estimable individual for whom they were to be applied, 1 have thought it right to put them on record.

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