1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: George Fleming
253. FLEMING, GEORGE, Trentham, Newcastle-under-Lyme — Inventor.
Machine for destroying weeds, moss, lichens, etc., on gravel-walks, court-yards, etc., it consists of a boiler, holding 30 gallons of water, with a furnace and iron-pipe chimney, and moves upon three broad wheels. In every gallon of water about 2 lbs. of common salt are dissolved; the mixture, when in a boiling state, is applied to the walks, etc., through a horizontal tube fixed behind the machine, under the furnace door.
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