Bramah

Examples

• Then came Julius Griffith, in 1821, of Brompton, who patented a steam carriage which was built by Joseph Bramah, one of the ablest mechanics of his time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wood-working implements in which the cutting tool was carried by a sliding block were described in the English patents of General Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah, in 1793-94. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nineteenth Century Opens with Bramah's Pumps. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Splendid System and Inventions of Samuel Bentham, Bramah and Branch at Close of Eighteenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah Laid Foundation of Nineteenth Century Tools. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The planing machines of General Bentham were improved by Bramah, and he and Maudsley also greatly improved other wood-working machines and tools in England--1802-1810. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was due to the splendid efforts of General Samuel Bentham, and of Bramah and Branch, both as to metal-working and wood-working machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Allusion was made in the last chapter to the powerful hydraulic press of Joseph Bramah invented in 1795-1800, its practical introduction in this century and improvements therein of others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These were supplied in England from 1811 to 1840 by the genius of Bramah, Clement, Fox, Roberts, Rennie, Whitworth, Fletcher, and a few others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Bramah’s planer, British patent No. 2,652, of 1802, was about the first planing machine of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Bramah's press illustrates how the theories of one age often lie dormant, but if true become the practices of a succeeding age. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was not until 1795 that that powerful modern apparatus--the hydraulic, or hydrostatic, press was patented by Bramah in England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The congregation of hat-boxes, and Bramah desks, and dressing-cases was prodigious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In Bramah's machine, a vertical spindle carried at its lower extremity a horizontal wheel having twenty-eight cutter blades, followed by a plane also attached to a wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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