 | Hugo Reid - Steam-engines - 1838 - 234 pages
...WORCESTER. 1 663. 180. Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, published, in 1663, a small work, entitled, "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...I can call to Mind, to have Tried and Perfected," &c. In this work, (in which, he says, the descriptions are " in such a way as may sufficiently instruct... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - Birmingham (England) - 1840 - 334 pages
...that a windmill is by a stream of air. In 1663, the Marquis of Worcester published a book entitled "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to Mind to have Tried and Perfected." In this work the nobleman in his peculiar egotistical style, indicates his acquaintance with the nature... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...Marquis of Worcester, in the year 1655 ; and an account of it was printed in a little book, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind," &c. ; in the year 1663. In the 68th article of that work, the Marquis describes the invention in the... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Industrial arts - 1891 - 632 pages
...he had plenty of leisure for quiet meditation. After the Restoration, he published his great work, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice." It is quite possible... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...contest between Charles I. and the parliament. The Marquess of Worcester's famous publication entitled " A Century of the names and scantlings of such inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected (my former notes being lost), &c.," was first printed in 1663. " It is a very small piece," says Walpole,... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library - Incunabula - 1842 - 476 pages
...Christians. London, by JC for Thomas Sturruppe, 1576. 8vo. Bl. L. WORCESTER, HENRY SOMER8BT, MARQUIS OP. A Century of the names and scantlings of such Inventions,...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, &c. London, byJ. Grismond, 1663. 18mo. WORCESTER, JOHN EARL OP. The ordinances, statutes and rules... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 pages
...and Scantlings [outlines or hints] of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have ti ied and perfected ; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored, now in the year 1655, to to set down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...Marquis of Worcester, in 1663, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings [outlines or hints] of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have ti ied and perfected ; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend,... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Fire engines - 1842 - 612 pages
...Marquis of Worcester, in 1663, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings [outlines or hints] of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have ti ied and perfected ; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...Of his work he has left a record, couched in mysterious language, in the well-known volume entitled "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year Ifi55, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them into practice."... | |
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A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected... 
