ji a few Days, with an original Portrait, Explanatory Engravings, 12mo, 



rHE CENTURY of INVENTIONS of the MARQUIS of WOR 

 CESTER, from the original MSS., with Historical and Explanatory 

 fotes, and a Biographical Memoir. 



By CHARLES F. PARTINGTON, 



of the London Institution, 



Author of an Historical and Descriptive Account of theSteam 



Engine, &c. &c. 



" A practical mathematician who has quickness to seize a hint, and 



agacity to apply it, might avail himself greatly of these scantlings. It 



i extremely probable, that Savery took from the Marquis the hint of the 



Iteam Engine, for raising water with a power made by fire, which inven- 



ion alone would entitle the author to immortality." — Grang. Biog. Hist. 



ol. v. p. 278. 



" Here it may not be amiss to recommend to the attention of every 

 lechanic, the little work entitled a Century of Inventions, by the Marquis 

 f Worcester, which, on account of the seeming improbability of dis- 

 overing many things mentioned therein, has been too much neglected : 

 ut when it is considered that some of the contrivances, apparently not 

 he least abstruse, have, by close application, been- found to answer all 

 he Marquis says of them, and that the first hint of that most powerful 

 aachine the steam engine is given in that work, it is unnecessary to en- 

 irge on the utility of it." — Trans, of the Society of Arts, vol. iii. p. 6. • 

 Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. 



ENGRAVINGS. 



Vol. LX. A Plate illustrative of Mrs. Ibbetson's Paper On thePolien 

 'if Flowers. — A Plate illustrative of a Paper by Mr. R. Taylor, of Nor- 

 fjch, on Fossil Bones from the Norfolk Coast. — A Plate illustrative of a 

 'aper by F. Baily, Esq. on the Stars forming the Pleiades.— A Plate 

 llustrative of Prof. AMici'sNew Sextant. 



Vol. LXI. Engravings — 1. Illustrative of Mr. Tredgold's Paper on 

 he Flexure of Astronomical Instruments. — 2. Deurbroicq and Ni-, 

 ihols' Apparatus for Madame Gervais' New Method of Fermentation. 

 —A Plate illustrative of Mr. R.Taylor's Geological Section of Hun- 

 tanton Cliff, Norfolk. — A Plate illustrative of Mr. Tatum's Communi- 

 ation on Electro-Magnetism. 



Vol. LXII. A Plate illustrative of Professor Hare's Communications 

 i»n Electricity, and on the Self-acting Blowpipe.— A Plate illustrative 

 |if Mr. Brunel's new Mode of Tunnelling, and of his Proposal for a 

 loadway under the Thames. — A Plate illustrative of M. Becquekels 

 Sxperiments on the Development of Electricity by Pressure. — A Plate 

 llustrative of Mr. Barlow's. Experiments on Mr. Marsh's Thermo- 

 electric Apparatus. — A Plate illustrative of Mr. Seaward's Observa- 

 ions on Suspension Chain Bridges. 



Vol. LXIII. A Plate illustrative of Mr. Gompertz's Method of de- 

 ending Ships and Fortifications; and a Cut of Mr Seaward's Pressure 

 Jauge. — A Plate illustrative of Mr. Richard Taylor's Paper on the 

 Jpper Marine Formation in the Cliffs near Cromer. — A Plate Illustrative 

 n Dr. Walchner's Examination of a new Mineral named Hyalosiderite ; 

 Mr. Baily' s and M. Frauenhofer's Accounts of the Circular 

 Micrometer — A Plate illustrative of Professor Hare's Single-leaf Elec- 

 •rometer and improved Deflagrators. — A Plate containing two new Spe- 

 cie* of Ascidia ; and Amphiuma means, a new Batrachian Animal. 



LXIV. A Plate illustrative of Mr. S. Seaward's Hydrfr-Pncu- 

 natic Pump for compressing Gases. 



