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Feby 1807
Another maxim discovery of his was that every cause suit has naturally two
parts: one in which nothing at all is done, the other in which
whatever is done when anything is done happens to be done, is done. It is the hotter part that he found so
ductile: capable of being rolled out as Mr Wilkinson draws out lead pipes to any length, to this it was
that he applied his rolling engine. The other he found to be later
bad even, always cold short or red-short: it was to this he was
forced to apply the slitting-mill.
He was no less profound a mathematician and chronologer than a mechanick a most accurate calculator and had found out
that an aliquot or fractional part of 24 hours is quite sufficient
for the material or rather the immaterial not being
the former, part of every cause.
Different materials circumstances require different engines mechanics. Where
the matter would not so well bear slitting, he had a sort of
compressing machine, some copies by Mr Bramah a sort of
applicable to liquids and solids as the common a condensing engine
is to gasses by which he would could compress the solid part
of a cause into a given space. There was Ld Melville's cause
for example which took up Your Lordship's fourteen days,
for some of which a happier employment might have been found.
Ld Ellenborough who has a machine of this kind in constant
use. Ld Ellenborough, had he had the cause as he was so
having it to try, with a Jury to help him would have compressed it into less than
as many hours.
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