Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A New Century of Inventions: Being Designs Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures,& Domestic Life
IT has been my lot, during a long and eventful passage through life, to have my attention forcibly drawn to a multitude of Mechanical, Subjects; the present review of which permits me to hope, that, in making them publicly known, I should render an important service to the, Arts and, to Society. But the manner of doing this has been so long a question with me, that I have sometimes feared my ability would be extinct before I could do it at all. The reasons, however, that urge me to make the attempt acquire strength with the lapse of time and whenever my declining health bespeaks the ap proach of that night in which no man can work, I feel deep regret, that this tribute. Should not have been thrown into the treasury of human knowledge while yet, by the favour of. A good Providence, the means of doing it were morefully at my disposal.
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