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Telescope Holder and Other Inventions
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susan
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 Telescope Holder and Other Inventions I was reading about Lord John Hay, when I came across the information that he had been awarded a silver medal by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce for his invention of a telescope holder for people who had only one hand/arm. I did a quick search on the Net to see if I could find any more information about the telescope holder, but didn't come up with anything substantial.
Does anyone know more about it?
Note: Lord Hay lost his left arm during a cutting out expedition in Hyères Bay early on in his career.
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Mil Goose
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The Times, December 27th, 1817:
" .... NEW AND USEFUL MARINE INVENTION. A student of the upper class of the new school* of naval architecture at the Dock-yard at Portsmouth, has invented a means of drawing vessels up the slip of the ways for their repair, in a manner to prevent the action of adhesion, friction, &c., and to save all the expense and avoid all the risks they occasion. The model of this plan is now submitted to the examination of the proper and competent persons in the naval department; by some of whom it is already thought well of, and deemed valuable. This is the first important invention or discovery by any student of this national establishment; if it have the merit and value, and meet with proper encouragement, distinction, and reward, it will have the good effect, not only of a stimulus to this promising young man, but to all the others of this foundation, and prove the spur of their exertion to improve in faculty, and a call and encouragement to the industry and genius of all - the important object of this new and useful branch of education and study, in which so much is still wanted among a people with whom the practice of navigation is so extensive, and its improvement and perfection so indispensible for them, in the novel and powerful competition they have now to expect from their contemporaries of both hemispheres. ...."
* Portsmouth Dockyard School
Does anyone know who the "young man" was, or have more details of his invention?
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Mil Goose
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The Times, December 18th, 1789:
" .... A Captain in the Navy, of a very ingenious turn, has invented an apparatus, by wich he will undertake to convey a vessel from Dover to Calais, and back again in three hours. He has constructed a small model, which he purposes to lay, in a few days, before the Royal Society. This curious apparatus is calculated for any weather, and will act against a very heavy sea. ...."
Can anyone add anything to this, please? ...e.g. elaborate on the invention, if it was used, or, perhaps,who the man with an "ingenious turn" was.
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