Miscellaneous works, in two parts. Part I. 1. On the Invention and Progress of Fire-Machinery. II. Remarks on the Conclusions of the Academy of Sciences at Peteriburg on the Theory of Fire Engines. III. On the pretended Plagiarisms of the English. IV. On the Properties of Corn Mills in England. Part II. I. A Letter to Prince Galitzin on Ancient and Modern Arts. II. A Second Letter on the same Subject to Monsieur Mauduit. III. A Third to the same on similar Matters. IV. On Ancient Shipping. V. On Weights and Measures in Solids and in Fluids, from an Universal Measure, to be found on the Degrees of the Meridian, and in the specific Gravity of a Fluid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blakey, William, b. 1712.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fire engines--England--Early works to 1800.

Fire engines.

Plagiarism--Early works to 1800.

Plagiarism.

Steam-engines--Early works to 1800.

Steam-engines.

Genre:

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii[i.e.viii],192p. )

Other Title:

Miscellaneous works,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Messrs. Cadell, Strand; Kearsley, Fleet Street; Robinsons, Paternoster Row; and Richardson, at the Royal Exchange, M.DCC.XC. [1790]

Notes:

Anonymous. By William Blakey.

P.viii misnumbered vii.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price Three Shillings.

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T173290.

OCLC:

642489345