mm^^S- 



A 



CENTURY 



OF THE 



Names and Scantlings 



OF SUCH 



INVENTIONS, ^ 



As n c preCent I can call to mind to \ 

 have cried and pcrfcdled, which j 

 (my former Notes being lort) I ' 

 have, at the initance of a power- 

 ful Friend, endeavoured now in 

 the Year 1655, to fet tbefs 

 down in fuch a way as aiay fufli- 

 itly inftruift me to put any of 

 inpraclicc- 



Ami ci^ Hitii'Kit prola 



P 



'yjf'Grifmifid in the year 



\ 67 1 



ping the other • but una= 

 nimoufly,and with har- 

 mony agreeing they all 

 augment and contribute 

 ftrength unto the in» 

 tended work and opera- 

 tion : And therefore I 

 call this A Semi^omnipotent 

 Engi?ie, and do intend 

 that a Model thereof be 

 buried with me. 



How to make one 

 pound weight to raife 

 an hundred as high as 

 one pound falleth, and 

 yet the hundred pound 

 defcending doth what 

 nothing Icfs then one 

 hun- 



99 



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trical Symmetry^ thac 

 though it work day and 

 night from one end of 

 the year to the other, it 

 will not require forty 

 fliiilings reparation to 

 the whole Engine, nor 

 hinder ones day-work. 

 And I may boldly call it 

 The mojl Jlupendious Work 

 in the 'whole "World : not 

 onely with little charge 

 to drein all forts of 

 Mines, and furnilTi Ci- 

 ties with water, though 

 never fo high feated, as 

 well to keep them fweet, 

 running through feve- 

 : ;:',-: Tal 



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