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'' | <p> <add> ff.4 (9) + (17</add><lb/>In his Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth, under the general<lb/>denominations of <hi rend="underline">Metal Mills</hi> and <hi rend="underline">Wood Mills</hi>, several extensive <lb/>establishments have, for <del>many</del> <add> eight</add> years <add> past </add> under the exclusive direction <lb/>of my brother <hi rend="superscript">||</hi> been carried on, in all which, use has all along been made <lb/><note><add> N<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> 1 </add> || ib. p. 140 to 179</note><lb/> of his inventions as above; always without any recompence, received <lb/>or applied for by either of us, unless of the official salary, which was <lb/>appointed for him before the establishment of these works, in <lb/>any such place, was in contemplation , any part be placed to that <lb/>account. </p><p> Had the still more important duties of his office allowed him <lb/>leisure, he could, in that same situation, with or without addition, <lb/>have gone through the greater number, if not the whole number,<lb/>of the inventions secured to him, as above, by patents: there being <lb/>few of them, if any, but what in one way or another, would have been <lb/>applicable to his Majesty's service: and, by that means, not improbably <lb/>have brought them, some or more, or all of them, to that state of <lb/>perfection, in which the enumeration of the methods <add> as </add> already practiced<lb/>in so extensive, & thence on a proportionally profitable, scale, <lb/>might have been employed as a source of profit. But, considerable as <lb/>might have been the advantage, derivable from these inventions, with <lb/>a view to the pecuniary concerns of an individual, they were, all <lb/>of them, with realtion to the public service, of inferior moment, <lb/>when compared with so many other public works and undertakings, <lb/>by the planning and executing which, so large a portion of his time, <lb/>and, by the struggle he has had to maintain, against the undiscriminating<lb/>and relentless opposition, at all times made to theory <add> a </add> so much<lb/>larger portion, has, from first to last, been occupied.</p> | ||
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In his Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth, under the general
denominations of Metal Mills and Wood Mills, several extensive
establishments have, for many eight years past under the exclusive direction
of my brother || been carried on, in all which, use has all along been made
No 1 || ib. p. 140 to 179
of his inventions as above; always without any recompence, received
or applied for by either of us, unless of the official salary, which was
appointed for him before the establishment of these works, in
any such place, was in contemplation , any part be placed to that
account.
Had the still more important duties of his office allowed him
leisure, he could, in that same situation, with or without addition,
have gone through the greater number, if not the whole number,
of the inventions secured to him, as above, by patents: there being
few of them, if any, but what in one way or another, would have been
applicable to his Majesty's service: and, by that means, not improbably
have brought them, some or more, or all of them, to that state of
perfection, in which the enumeration of the methods as already practiced
in so extensive, & thence on a proportionally profitable, scale,
might have been employed as a source of profit. But, considerable as
might have been the advantage, derivable from these inventions, with
a view to the pecuniary concerns of an individual, they were, all
of them, with realtion to the public service, of inferior moment,
when compared with so many other public works and undertakings,
by the planning and executing which, so large a portion of his time,
and, by the struggle he has had to maintain, against the undiscriminating
and relentless opposition, at all times made to theory a so much
larger portion, has, from first to last, been occupied.
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JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809 |
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