A 



CENTURY 



:QF THE 

 l%mcs and Scantlings 



OF SUCH 



INVENTIONS, 



As sc prefenc ! can call to rjiind to 

 have tried snd perfe&ed, which 



i (my former Notes kerag loft) I 



To /;oW the Jams by night. 7 

 To level Cannons by night. 8 

 A Shtp*deftroytng Engine* p 

 How to be faftened from*a* 



loofand under y>ater. i o 

 How to fre vent both. 1 1 

 An unfinkable Ship. 1 1 

 Falje deftroying 'becks. 1 5 

 Multiplied Jlrength in little 



ron. 1 4 



A Boat driving again/I Tbind 



and tide, 1 5 



A Sea foiling Fort. 1 6 

 A pleafant floting Gar* 



den. 17 



An Houre glaffe Foun* 



tain. i 8 



A Coach faving Engine, i p 



A 



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 

 Engine, and do intend 

 that a Model theieof 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 lefs then one 

 hun- 



90. 



trical Symmetry ? that 

 though it work day and 

 night from one end of 

 the year to the other, it 

 will not require forty 

 (hillings reparation to 

 the whole Engine, nor 

 hinder ones day-work. 

 And I may boldly call it 

 The mojl ftupendious Work 

 in the "tohole Tborld : not 

 onely with little charge 

 to drein all forts of 

 Mines , and ftirmfh Ci- 

 ties with water^ though 

 never fo high feated, as 

 well to keep them fweet, 

 running through feve- 

 ral 



NO. 5505 (page 280). 

 Title and pages of text and index of the 'Century of Inventions'. 



