Abstract:Mr. SINCLAIR said, that some years ago, he had seen the apparatus of Mr. Newall, and from the experiments with it which he then witnessed, he thought it an improvement. But he was not able to enter into a comparison of the respective merits of that, and the system introduced by Mr. Fay, as he had never seen the latter ; but he understood from the Paper, that the principle of the two was so nearly alike, that the results might, naturally, be supposed to be similar. It should, however, be observed, that both sys… Show more
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