CHAP. XT. 



VARIOUS MACHINERY. 



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and Scotland, as well as in the colonies and in foreign 

 countries. 1 



In addition to the various mills and manufactories 

 fitted up by him with new and improved machinery, we 

 may mention that he advised the Bank of England on 

 the subject of the more rapid manufacture of bank notes 

 by the employment of the steam-engine ; and he entirely 

 re-arranged the Government machinery at Waltham 

 for the better manufacture of gunpowder. He erected 

 the anchor-forge at Woolwich Dockyard, considered to 

 be the most splendid piece of machinery in its day ; he 

 supplied Baron Fagel (then Dutch minister in this 

 country) with designs of dredging-engines for clearing 

 the mud out of the rivers and canals of Holland ; and 

 he designed and constructed the celebrated machinery for 

 making ropes according to Captain Huddart's patent. 2 



1 In 1817, his fame having gone 

 ahroad as the most skilled water en- 

 gineer of the day, Captain Dufour, of 

 Geneva, came to England for the pur- 

 pose of consulting him as to the ex- 

 tension and improvement of the water- 

 works of that city. Captain Dufour 

 was introduced to Mr. Rennie by the 

 mutual friend of both, the eminent 

 Dr. Wollaston. Mr. Rennie made a 

 careful and detailed report on the 

 surveys and plans submitted to him, 

 especially on the engine and pumping 

 machinery of the proposed works; 

 and his advice was followed, very 

 much to the advantage of the citizens 

 of Geneva. 



2 Captain Joseph Huddart, F.R.S., 

 was a singularly estimable character. 

 He was a man of great nautical ex- 

 perience, sound judgment, and excel- 

 lent skill as a mechanic and engineer, 

 and was often consulted by Mr. Rennie 

 in reference to marine works of more 

 than ordinary importance. His origin 

 was humble, like that of so many of 

 the early engineers ; and, like them 

 also, he was drawn to the pursuit by 

 the force of his genius, rather than by 

 the peculiar direction of his education. 

 He was born at Allonby, in Cumber- 



land, in 1740, the son of a shoemaker 

 and small farmer. From his mother 

 he inherited a determined spirit and a 

 vigorous constitution, combined with 

 sound moral principles, which he 



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CAPTAIN JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S. 



nobly illustrated in his life. He re- 

 ceived an ordinary share of education 

 at the common school of his village, 

 to which he added a knowledge of 



