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A67033 A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667. 1663 (1663) Wing W3532; ESTC R7944 14,317 108

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Pond or raiseth Gravel An Engine whereby one man may take out of the water a Ship of 500. Tun so that it may be calked trimmed and repaired without need of the usual way of stocks and as easily let it down again A little Engine portable in ones Pocket which placed to any door without any noise but on crack openeth any door or gate A double Cross-bow neate handsome and strong to shoot two Arrows either together or one after the other so immediately that a Deer cannot run two steps but if he miss of one Arrow he may be reach'd with the other whether the Deer run forward sideward or start backward A way to make a Sea-bank so firm and Geometrically-strong that a stream can have no power over it excellent likewise to save the Pillar of a Bridge being far cheaper and stronger then Stone-walls An Instrument whereby an ignorant person may take any thing in Perspective as justly and more then the skilfullest Painter can do by his eye An Engine so contrived that working the Primum mobile forward or backward upward or downward circularly or corner-wise to and fro streight upright or downright yet the pretended Operation continueth and advanceth none of the motions above-mentioned hindering much less stopping the other but unanimously and with harmony agreeing they all augment and contribute strength unto the intended work and operation And therefore I call this A Semi-omnipotent Engine and do intend that a Model thereof be buried with me How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high as one pound falleth and yet the hundred pound descending doth what nothing less then one hundred pound can effect Upon so potent a help as these two last mentioned Inventions a Waterwork is by many years experience and labour so advantageously by me contrived that a Childs force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water even two foot Diameter so naturally that the work will not be heard even into the next Room and with so great ease and Geometrical Symmetry that though it work day and night from one end of the year to the other it will not require forty shillings reparation to the whole Engine nor hinder ones day-work And I may boldly call it The most stupendious Work in the whole world not onely with little charge to drein all sorts of Mines and furnish Cities with water though never so high seated as well to keep them sweet running through several streets and so performing the work of Scavingers as well as furnishing the Inhabitants with sufficient water for their private occasions but likewise supplying Rivers with sufficient to maintaine and make them portable from Towne to Towne and for the bettering of Lands all the way it runs with many more advantageous and yet greater effects of Profit Admiration and Consequence So that deservedly I deem this Invention to crown my Labours to reward my Expences and make my Thoughts acquiesce in way of further Inventions This making up the whole Century and preventing any further trouble to the Reader for the present meaning to leave to Posterity a Book wherein under each of these Heads the means to put in execution and visible trial all and every of these Inventions with the shape and form of all things belonging to them shall be Printed by Brass-plates In Bonum Publicum Ad majorem DEI Gloriam Index SEals abundantly-significant 1 Private and particular to each owner 2 An one-line Cypher 3 Reduced to a Point 4 Varied significantly to all the 24. letters 5 A mute and perfect discourse by colours 6 To hold the same by night 7 To level Cannons by night 8 A Ship-destroying Engine 9 How to be fastened from-a-loof and under water 10 How to prevent both 11 An unsinkable Ship 12 False destroying Decks 13 Multiplied strength in little room 14 A Boat driving against wind and tide 15 A Sea-sailing Fort. 16 A pleasant floting Garden 17 An Houre-glasse Fountain 18 A Coach-saving Engine 19 A Balance Water-work 20 A Bucket-fountain 21 An ebbing and flowing River 22 An ebbing and flowing Castle-clock 23 A Strength-increasing Spring 24 A double drawing Engine for weights 25 A to and fro Lever 26 A most easie level Draught 27 A portable Bridge 28 A moveable Fortification 29 A Rising Bulwork 30 An approaching Blinde 31 An universall Character 32 A Needle-alphabet 33 A knotted String-alphabet 34 A Fringe-alphabet 35 A Bracelet-alphabet 36 A Pinck'd Glove-alphabet 37 A Sieve-alphabet 38 A Lanthorn-alphabet 39 An alphabet by the Smell 40 An alphabet by the Taste 41 An alphabet by the Touch. 42 A variation of all and each of these 43 A Key-Pistol 44 A most conceited Tinder-box 45 An artificial Bird. 46 An Hour Water-ball 47 A scru'd ascent of Stairs 48 A Tobacco-tongs Engine 49 A Pocket-ladder 50 A Rule of Gradation 51 A mysticall jangling of Bells 52 An hollowing of a Water-scrue 53 A transparent Water-scrue 54 A double Water-scrue 55 An advantageous change of Centres 56 A constant Water-flowing and ebbing motion 57 An often-discharging Pistol 58 An especial way for Carabines 59 A Flask-charger 60 A way for Musquets 61 A way for a Harquebus a Crock 62 For Sakers and Minyons 63 For the biggest Cannon 64 For a whole side of Ship-musquets 65 For guarding several advenues to a Town 66 For Musquettoons on horseback 67 A Fire Water-work 68 A triangle Key 69 A Rose Key 70 A square Key with a turning scrue 71 An Escocheon for all Locks 72 A transmittible Gallery 73 A conceited Door 74 A Discourse woven in Tape or Ribbon 75 To write in the dark 76 A flying man 77 A continually-going Watch. 78 A total locking of Cabinet-boxes 79 Light Pistol-barrels 80 A Comb-conveyance for Letters 81 A Knife Spoon or Fork-conveyance 82 A Rasping-mill 83 An arithmetical Instrument 84 An untoothsome Pear 85 An imprisoning Chair 86 A Candle-mold 87 A Brazen head 88 Primero Gloves 89 A Dicing-box 90 An artificiall Ring-horse 91 A Gravel Engine 92 A Ship-raising Engine 93 A Pocket Engine to open any door 94 A double Cross-bow 95 A way for Sea-banks 96 A perspective Instrument 97 A Semi-omnipotent Engine 98 A most admirable way to raise Weights 99 A stupendious Water-work 100 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