⁂ If, in the following List of Names, it has been thought just to mark those of thefirstpromoters of this Work, it has not been to lessen the Author’s obligations to the rest—who, almost uniformly, have given him their Names with the same spontaneous kindness, and thus ensured his lasting gratitude.
⁂ If, in the following List of Names, it has been thought just to mark those of thefirstpromoters of this Work, it has not been to lessen the Author’s obligations to the rest—who, almost uniformly, have given him their Names with the same spontaneous kindness, and thus ensured his lasting gratitude.
Pl. 1.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 1 (260 kB)Pl. 2.J. W. inv. (cir. 1770.) & delin. 1899Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 2 (181 kB)Pl. 3.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 3 (352 kB)Pl. 4.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 4 (376 kB)Pl. 5.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 5 (302 kB)Pl. 6.J. White Inv. et del.Engdby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 6 (241 kB)Pl. 7.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 7 (393 kB)Pl. 8.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 8 (333 kB)Pl. 9.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 9 (304 kB)Pl. 10.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 10 (390 kB)Pl. 11.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 11 (312 kB)Pl. 12.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 12 (341 kB)Pl. 13.J. White inv. et del.Eng.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 13 (300 kB)Pl. 14.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 14 (332 kB)Pl. 15.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 15 (377 kB)Pl. 16.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 16 (401 kB)Pl. 17.J. White inv. et del.Eng.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 17 (324 kB)Pl. 18.J. White inv. et del.Eng.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 18 (349 kB)Pl. 19.J. White inv. et del.Eng.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 19 (260 kB)Pl. 20.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 20 (353 kB)Pl. 21.J. White inv. et del.Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 21 (300 kB)Pl. 22.J. White inv. et del.Eng.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 22 (154 kB)Pl. 23.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 23 (314 kB)Pl. 24.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 24 (419 kB)Pl. 25.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 25 (386 kB)Pl. 26.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 26 (332 kB)Pl. 27.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 27 (421 kB)Pl. 28.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 28 (460 kB)Pl. 29.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 29 (371 kB)Pl. 30.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 30 (291 kB)Pl. 31.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 31 (342 kB)Pl. 32.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 32 (305 kB)Pl. 33.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 33 (305 kB)Pl. 34.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 34 (365 kB)Pl. 35.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 35 (332 kB)Pl. 36.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 36 (391 kB)Pl. 37.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 37 (402 kB)Pl. 38.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 38 (355 kB)Pl. 39.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 39 (317 kB)Pl. 40.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 40 (451 kB)Pl. 41.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 41 (425 kB)Pl. 42.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 42 (451 kB)Pl. 43.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 43 (411 kB)Pl. 44.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 44 (304 kB)Pl. 45.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 45 (270 kB)Pl. 46.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 46 (388 kB)Pl. 47.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 47 (441 kB)Pl. 48.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 48 (375 kB)Pl. 49.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 49 (384 kB)Pl. 50.J. White inv. et del.Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.Larger imagePlate 50 (374 kB)
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J. White inv. et del.
Engraved by Leech & Cheetham.
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J. W. inv. (cir. 1770.) & delin. 1899
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White Inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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J. White inv. et del.
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J. White inv. et del.
Engr.dby Leech & Cheetham.
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Transcriber’s Notes:Depending on the hard- and software used, not all characters and symbols may display properly or at all.Unusual and inconsistent spellings (including the use of it’s for its) have been retained, except as mentioned under Changes below.The author uses both . and , for decimals and for thousands separator; this has not been changed.The Synopsis does not list all machines described in the text, some machines listed are not described in the book, and some machines are mentioned more than once. There are several discrepancies between the Synopsis and the Table of Contents.Page 127, as 268 is to ...536: the reason for the periods is unclear, they have been left as in the original work.Page 204, horizontal and vertical: the machine in the drawing is horizontal; possibly the words horizontal and vertical should be interchanged.Plate 2: the text on the left-hand bottom reads J.W. inv. (cir. 1770.) & delin. 1899. which is unlikely in a book from 1822.Changes made to the text:Minor obvious punctuation errors have been corrected silently.The various Errata have already been included (including the correction to Plate 19 Fig. 7); the given correction ,99990 was changed to 99990; on page 374, the entire series has been corrected, not only the elements given in the errata; on page 188 the corrections have been made to line 2, not 17 as given in the errata; some errata repeated on last page of errata; some errors reported in errata not present in text).Footnotes have been moved to underneath the text they refer to.Some tables have been re-arranged.Page vi: befal changed to befallPage 21: 18th. figure changed to 18th. figure (Plate 6)Page 24: dfficulty changed to difficulty; clylinder changed to cylinder; equallized changed to equalized as elsewherePage 26: consitute changed to constitutePage 33: philosohpy changed to philosophyPage 36: as to the the time changed to as to the time; thepocket changed to the pocketPage 38: Lieutenat changed to LieutenantPage 39: pasing changed to passingPage 51/52: proporportions changed to proportionsPage 54-55:wchanged to W,zchanged to Z as in drawingPage 56: 2,020000 changed to 2020000 (cf. correction of other numbers on page 55, and the written-out number in the next paragraph of the text)Page 58-59: ’“ changed to “’Page 61: unweildy changed to unwieldy; shut of changed to shut offPage 63: difinitive changed to definitivePage 73: as we llto changed to as well to; theplane changed to the planeSynopsis: parobolico changed to parabolico; second number 78 changed to 79; some page umbers corrected to conform to textPage 90: Opening quotes added before The subject of this paper ... to match closing quotes on page 108Page 96: indispensible changed to indispensable as elsewhere; whould changed to would; circumferencies changed to circumferencesPage 101: circumferencies changed to circumferencesPage 102: arces changed to arcs; quantites changed to quantitiesPage 118: side ways changed to sideways as elsewherePage 123: once cutting changed to one cuttingPage 133: (Plate 17) changed to (Plate 17, fig. 1)Page 134: circumferenceof changed to circumference of; inproportion changed to in proportionPage 137: quote marks added after second and before third paragraph for consistencyPage 138: passsing changed to passing; staight changed to straightPage 139: beween changed to betweenPage 145: penetratration changed to penetrationPage 152: reallized changed to realizedPage 155: representented changed to representedPage 160: might named changed to might be namedPage 161: intead changed to insteadPage 170: prouced changed to producedPage 187: opinon changed to opinion; 174.4 changed to 147.4Page 188: 63 27′ changed to 63°27′; y changed to y =Page 191: closing quote added after ... same proportion.Page 200: dependant changed to dependent as elsewhere; Plate 25 changed to Plate 24Page 203: “tis ... changed to “’tis ...Page 224: Plate 3d changed to Plate 3Page 286 some times changed to sometimesPage 289 (if changed to ifPage 307: analagous changed to analogous; disembarassment changed to disembarrassmentPage 311: mens’ changed to men’sPage 317: fig. 3 changed to fig. 2Page 337: cloged changed to cloggedPage 339: ackowledge changed to acknowledgePage 340: preceeding changed to preceding; a pair of of changed to a pair ofPage 353: contruction changed to constructionPage 357: withold changed to withholdPage 372: esspecially changed to especiallyPage 387: sherical changed to sphericalTable of Contents: some page numbers corrected to conform to textlist of subscribers: De Volvic Comte Chabrol changed to De Volvic, Comte ChabrolPlate 36, 43: Engraver added as with other plates.
Depending on the hard- and software used, not all characters and symbols may display properly or at all.Unusual and inconsistent spellings (including the use of it’s for its) have been retained, except as mentioned under Changes below.The author uses both . and , for decimals and for thousands separator; this has not been changed.The Synopsis does not list all machines described in the text, some machines listed are not described in the book, and some machines are mentioned more than once. There are several discrepancies between the Synopsis and the Table of Contents.Page 127, as 268 is to ...536: the reason for the periods is unclear, they have been left as in the original work.Page 204, horizontal and vertical: the machine in the drawing is horizontal; possibly the words horizontal and vertical should be interchanged.Plate 2: the text on the left-hand bottom reads J.W. inv. (cir. 1770.) & delin. 1899. which is unlikely in a book from 1822.
Changes made to the text:Minor obvious punctuation errors have been corrected silently.The various Errata have already been included (including the correction to Plate 19 Fig. 7); the given correction ,99990 was changed to 99990; on page 374, the entire series has been corrected, not only the elements given in the errata; on page 188 the corrections have been made to line 2, not 17 as given in the errata; some errata repeated on last page of errata; some errors reported in errata not present in text).Footnotes have been moved to underneath the text they refer to.Some tables have been re-arranged.Page vi: befal changed to befallPage 21: 18th. figure changed to 18th. figure (Plate 6)Page 24: dfficulty changed to difficulty; clylinder changed to cylinder; equallized changed to equalized as elsewherePage 26: consitute changed to constitutePage 33: philosohpy changed to philosophyPage 36: as to the the time changed to as to the time; thepocket changed to the pocketPage 38: Lieutenat changed to LieutenantPage 39: pasing changed to passingPage 51/52: proporportions changed to proportionsPage 54-55:wchanged to W,zchanged to Z as in drawingPage 56: 2,020000 changed to 2020000 (cf. correction of other numbers on page 55, and the written-out number in the next paragraph of the text)Page 58-59: ’“ changed to “’Page 61: unweildy changed to unwieldy; shut of changed to shut offPage 63: difinitive changed to definitivePage 73: as we llto changed to as well to; theplane changed to the planeSynopsis: parobolico changed to parabolico; second number 78 changed to 79; some page umbers corrected to conform to textPage 90: Opening quotes added before The subject of this paper ... to match closing quotes on page 108Page 96: indispensible changed to indispensable as elsewhere; whould changed to would; circumferencies changed to circumferencesPage 101: circumferencies changed to circumferencesPage 102: arces changed to arcs; quantites changed to quantitiesPage 118: side ways changed to sideways as elsewherePage 123: once cutting changed to one cuttingPage 133: (Plate 17) changed to (Plate 17, fig. 1)Page 134: circumferenceof changed to circumference of; inproportion changed to in proportionPage 137: quote marks added after second and before third paragraph for consistencyPage 138: passsing changed to passing; staight changed to straightPage 139: beween changed to betweenPage 145: penetratration changed to penetrationPage 152: reallized changed to realizedPage 155: representented changed to representedPage 160: might named changed to might be namedPage 161: intead changed to insteadPage 170: prouced changed to producedPage 187: opinon changed to opinion; 174.4 changed to 147.4Page 188: 63 27′ changed to 63°27′; y changed to y =Page 191: closing quote added after ... same proportion.Page 200: dependant changed to dependent as elsewhere; Plate 25 changed to Plate 24Page 203: “tis ... changed to “’tis ...Page 224: Plate 3d changed to Plate 3Page 286 some times changed to sometimesPage 289 (if changed to ifPage 307: analagous changed to analogous; disembarassment changed to disembarrassmentPage 311: mens’ changed to men’sPage 317: fig. 3 changed to fig. 2Page 337: cloged changed to cloggedPage 339: ackowledge changed to acknowledgePage 340: preceeding changed to preceding; a pair of of changed to a pair ofPage 353: contruction changed to constructionPage 357: withold changed to withholdPage 372: esspecially changed to especiallyPage 387: sherical changed to sphericalTable of Contents: some page numbers corrected to conform to textlist of subscribers: De Volvic Comte Chabrol changed to De Volvic, Comte ChabrolPlate 36, 43: Engraver added as with other plates.