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Wave-Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and useful wave motor, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Water-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a water-wheel. The object of this invention is to provide a water-wheel in which the energy of the water shall act upon a series of peripheral buckets on a principle of hydraulic pressure in contradistinction to that of mere impact and momentum.
Date: January 26, 1892
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Wind-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a wind-wheel that "needs no guiding vane or tail, but shall turn in the same direction at all times regardless of the direction of the wind" (lines 8-11). It is a horizontal wind wheel that rotates on a vertical axis. The blades automatically opens on one side and close on the opposite side.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Wave-Motor.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective apparatus that utilizes wave power. It consists of a frame with a casing on the top that extends from the normal trough to crest lines of waves, a float, a pump with the center below the float, a discharge pipe connected to the pump, anchors and braces for the pump, a joint that connects the pump with a pile, guide rolls, and inlets and outlets on opposite sides of the pump.
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Wave-Motor.

Description: Patent for a wave motor that gathers and stores power from the full force of the waves in their rise and fall. The motor operates a drive shaft.
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Improvement in Hot-Air, Steam, and Water-Gauge.

Description: Patent for improvements in hot air, harmonic steam, and water gauges: "In this invention several tubes pass through the boiler, some under and some above the water, through which currents of air are induced by the heat of the water or steam surrounding them" (lines 8-9).
Date: October 8, 1867
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Steam Generator

Description: Patent for an invention that "relates to a novel generator designed with special reference to the requirements of motor-vehicles, but capable of use in any connection where a completely automatic generator of light compact form is desirable" (lines 14-21). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 15, 1902
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hydraulic propulsion. This design "is to provide an improved means for the application of the jet principle in the hydraulic propulsion of vessels; and it consists in the combination, with the hull of the vessel, of one or more main or trunk tubes arranged longitudinally to the vessel and of tapering shape, largest at its front end, which is open, and provided along its length with a series of nozzles opening along the side of the vessel in rearward direction, and … more
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.

Description: Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Motor.

Description: Patent for improving the “’multiple cylinder rotary engine’“ (lines 9-10) through "controlling devices" (line 24) that are both automatic and manual and help engine pistons function more effectively. This patent builds upon earlier patents regarding motor design by the inventor, and will connect to a generator concurrently patented by the inventor. Detailed explanations and illustrations included.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 27, 1898
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rotary engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for a rotary steam engine, which allows the piston to move more freely in the engine.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 27, 1898
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Rotary Engine

Description: Patent for a rotary engine that operates by virtually any type of motive fluid. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design represents "improvements in coupling railroad-cars where any of the ordinary drawheads requiring the use of the link and pin are used; and the object of [the] improvement is to make a complete, simple, and durable car-coupler. . . . by means of a strong adjustable drop ring or link and catch-pin" (lines 13-20).
Date: September 11, 1883
Creator: Garrett, Jackson B.
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Air-Ship.

Description: Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Walker, James C.
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Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and effective rotary engine that economically uses steam and automatically controls steam discharge. "Two distinct rotary motions in reverse directions are obtained at the same time" (lines 16-18) in this engine.
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Walker, James C.
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