112 Memorial on the upward forces of Fluids. 
try; and the public opinion seems to be fixed in its estimate 
of the value of a discovery which is nevertheless an irresisti~ 
ble proof of human ingennity, having thus far availed itself 
of a portion of the laws of nature, in relation to what Mr. 
Genet calls the upward forces of fluids. 
His Memorial, now before us, commands a new degrée of 
attention, not precisely in relation to those improvements, 
which seem to have frustrated the expectations of former ex- 
perimenters, but in regard to others far more important to the 
arts of industry—experiments which had not before 
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younger, was present at the first balonic ascension which he 
orn fore the King of France, and soon after, viz. in 
the ‘year 1783, he read a memoir to the Royal Academy, of 
which he was a member, on the means of applying the steam 
