The Artizan . 910 E. Perre—Certain improvements in the methodof obtaining motive power and iu apparatus con-nected therewith 1911 XV. Diaper—Safes or receptacles for the pro -tection of property 1912 G. Wilson 6c J. Goodfellow—Bedsteads, sofasaud chairs 1913 XV, E. Newton—Valvs for steam and otherengines 1914 J. P. Gillard—Manufacture of soda and carbo-nate of soda 1915 M. P. W. Boulton—Obtaining motive powerwhen heated air is employed 1916 S. Boyd—An invention of an improved cotonpress 1917 W. Wapshare—An improved apparatus forcooking, a portion of the same being applicable towashing and iron


The Artizan . 910 E. Perre—Certain improvements in the methodof obtaining motive power and iu apparatus con-nected therewith 1911 XV. Diaper—Safes or receptacles for the pro -tection of property 1912 G. Wilson 6c J. Goodfellow—Bedsteads, sofasaud chairs 1913 XV, E. Newton—Valvs for steam and otherengines 1914 J. P. Gillard—Manufacture of soda and carbo-nate of soda 1915 M. P. W. Boulton—Obtaining motive powerwhen heated air is employed 1916 S. Boyd—An invention of an improved cotonpress 1917 W. Wapshare—An improved apparatus forcooking, a portion of the same being applicable towashing and ironing 1918 XV. E. Gedge—An improved windmill forraising waier Dated Julv 21th, 1865. 1919 J. M/Croft—Improvements in the steering ofships 1920 H. XV. Haet—An invention of an improvementin metal pins 1921* R. A. Brooman—Examining and facilitating operatious in the throat1922 J. Leetch—Improvements in the article of dress worn by ladies, to be called the expanding and collapsing crinoline. nTSmuk. (7: due THE AETIZAN. No. 33.—Vol. 3.—Third Series. SEPTEMBER 1st, 1865. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF THE MERSEYDOCKS AND HARBOUR. By J. J. Bibckel.{Illustrated ly Plate 285.) So far, we have had occasion to refer to the Birkenhead Dock schemeonly while treating of the estuary proper, and in connection, more espe-cially, with the question of high tide levels. The establishment of thosedocks, however, has been a subject of so much controversy both on tech-nical and on purely local matters, that we now purpose giving a shortsketch of their origin and growth, as well as of the technical vicissitudesthrough which, as a whole, they passed, until they finally were made toassume their present shape. We shall afterwards illustrate those struc-tural details which give them their special and distinctive features. These docks, the reader probably remembers, occupy the site of acreek of the estuary of the Mersey, formerly known as the Wallasey pool,on the Cheshire


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