CATALOGUE. — HISTORY OF HTDRAULICS AND PNEUMATICS. 



263 



Many charges introduced at once. 

 Wilson's patent fire arms. Repert. VI. 304. 



Preserved from rust. 

 Marescot on shooting grenades. M. Inst. II. 



242. 

 Dodd's safe gun lock. S. A. XXII. 296. 

 Haycraft's patent gun carriage. Repert. XII. 

 , 16. 

 Dolomieu on the art of cutting gun flints. 



M. Inst. in. 348. Nich. 8. 1. 88. 

 Prosser'a patent guns and pistols. Repert. 



XV. 224. 

 On casting shot. Gilb. VIII. 2,50. 

 A wheelbarrow for throwing grenades. Per- 

 son, Recueil. PI. 7. 

 De Poggi's patent ordnance. Repert. ii. I. 



169. 

 Webb's safe gun lock. S. A. XX. 247. Nich. 



8. V. 29. 

 A magazine pistol. Nich. 8. IV. 250. 



From Lord Camelford, who had " used it in various parts 

 of the worlJ." 



Two muskets for quick firing. Nich. 8. V. 



116. 

 On a gun for throwing double shot. Nich. 



VII. 146. 



Rockets, and oth^r Fireworks. 



Pasdeloup's machine for loading fireworks. 



Mach. A. I. 125. 

 Buffon on rockets. A. P. 1740. H. 105. 

 Robins on the height of the ascent of rockets. 



Ph. tr. 1749. 131. 



A rocket of a pound ascended 45« or 500 yards, in 7" ; a 

 roclcet of 4 pounds remained 14". 



Ellicott on the height of the ascent of rockets. 



Ph. tr. 1750. 578. 



Rockets two inches and a half in diameter a proper size. 

 A rocket fired at Hackney was seen at Barkway. Some of 

 three inches in diameter rose laoo yards. 



HISTORY OF HYDRAULICS AND PNEU- 

 MATICS. 



Balloons. See Aerostatics. 



Lowther examined inflammable air in 1733. 

 Ph. tr. 1733. 



Belidor's history of antient and modern ca- 

 nals. Arch. Hydr. II. ii. 343, 357. 



Leroy sur les navires des anciens. 8. R. S. 



Luckombe's tablet of memory. 



Glenie's history pf gunnery. R. S. 



jKtfp/er Bergm. Journal. 1791. 



Matthesius is said to have mentioned a steam engine in 



his Sarepta before 1SS8. 



Phillips's history of inland navigation. 4. R. I. 

 On the Chinese canal. Staunton's voyage. 



R. I. 

 Charnock's history of marine architecture. 3 



V. 4. Lond. 1800. 

 Montucla and Lalande. Hist. Mathem. 



History of shipbuilding. IV. 381. 

 Prieur and Lenonnand on parachutes. Ann. 



Ch. XXXI. 269. XXXVI. 94. Gilb. XVI. 



156. 

 Beckmann on the invention of fire engines. 



Ph. M. XI. 238. 

 Gilb. XVI. 385. 



Erraan observes, that Aristotle weighed the carbonic acid 

 gas exhaled from the lungs, when he found that a blown 

 bladder was heavier than an empty one. 



W^iegleb on the antiquity of gunpowder. 

 ■ Nich. VI. 71. 



Hints towards a steam engine in 1637. Nich. 

 VII. 311.Brunau. 



Particular Dates. A. D. 



The Chinese canal 806 miles long, fi- 

 nished by 30 000 men in 43 years 980 



The first canal in England, from the 



Trent to the Witham ] 134 



Windmills invented 1299 



Canhons invented 1330 



Gunpowder used according to Lan- 

 glais 1338 



