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Alfred Beach was born at Springfield, Massachussets, the son of Nancy (Day) and Moses Yale Beach, a cabinetmaker and inventor.
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The Science Record for 1875: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year; With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Science Record for 1873: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year When once this green flux has been obtained, the ex traction of manganese presents no further difficulty, because it can be used over and over again, providing the oxide of manganese produced is of a tolerably good quality, and introduces no injurious material in its slag. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Science Record for 1874: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year, With Illustrations Mitscherlich has recently discovered a new mode by which, by direct analysis, not only the carbon, oxygen, and h drogen in an organic substance can be determined, but a so the chlorine, bromine, sulphur, iodine, phosphorus, and probably also the nitrogen therein contained. The orga nic material is brought to combustion with oxide Of mer cugy, the results of which process are water, carbonic acid, an mercury. The two former are weighed in the ordi nary manner. The weight of the mercury formed serves to determine the quantity of oxygen due to combustion, by subtracting which from that contained in the carbonic acid and the water, the total amount of oxy en existing in the substance submitted to elementary ana ysis is found. If, however, the body under examination contains chlorine, bromine, or iodine, these elements combine with the mer cury set free, and are determined by weighing. Sulphur and phosphorns combine in the state of sulphate and of phosphate of oxide of mercury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Alfred Ely Beach
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Alfred was six years old when his uncle, Benjamin H. Day, established The Sun (New York), which was eventually purchased by Moses Yale Beach from his brother-in-law. Alfred E. Beach obtained an excellent idea of journalism while working for his father. The Scientific American had been founded by Rufus Porter in 1845. Young Beach desired to secure the property, which was unique, and for this purpose formed a partnership (1846) with Orson D. Munn and Salem H. Wales, under the title of Munn & Company - a partnership continued for almost fifty years. The young men purchased the paper, and in time the editorial chair was occupied by Beach. His great service was the technical and legal advice given to inventors. He was prolific in ideas and patented the following: typewriter, 1847; typewriter for the blind, 1857; cable railways, 1864; pneumatic tubes for mail and passengers, 1865; and a tunneling shield.
His typewriter had considerable merit and some of its ideas are still used; such as the basket or pot arrangement of the type rods. In his last model the tape was embossed with a male and female die, such as is used in notarial presses. In 1856 the American Institute awarded him a gold medal for this device. He cannot be called the basic inventor of the typewriter, but his contribution was substantial. Though his cable traction system was probably never used, he lived to see the general plan adopted.
Beach likewise invented a pneumatic carrier system. He gave demonstrations of this system in 1867 at the Fair of the American Institute and people rode 107 feet in a tube like those in London and the Hudson Tubes in New York, except that air instead of electricity was used as the motive power. Today the same principle is utilized in mail-tubes and cash-carriers. In 1869 he obtained a charter for a tube to carry mail from Liberty Street, New York, to the Harlem River, with the proviso that the street must not be disturbed. This clause led him to perfect the tunneling shield, which had already been used by Brunel for the Thames Tunnel in 1843. He built a section of an underground road a block long between Warren Street and Murray Street. A 100-horsepower blower was used to propel the car. No profit could be derived under the charter and the idea was finally abandoned, but all may pass through the actual remains of the tunnel which now forms the City Hall station of the Brooklyn-Manhattan subway.
Alfred Beach died at the age of 69 in New York.
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Alfred Beach was a co-owner and editor of Scientific American. Beach patented the following: typewriter (1847); typewriter for the blind (1857); cable railways (1864); pneumatic tubes for mail and passengers (1865); and a tunneling shield. Beach is most known for his design of New York City's earliest subway predecessor - the Beach Pneumatic Transit.
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The Science Record for 1874: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year, With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
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The Science Record for 1873: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year (Classic Reprint)
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The Science Record for 1875: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year; With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
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The Science Record for 1874: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery During the Past Year, With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
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On June 30, 1847, Alfred Beach married Harriet Eliza, daughter of John F. and Harriet (Converse) Holbrook, at Boston, Massachussets.
