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. The author the Marquis of Worcester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667.

Contributor:

Dudley, Dud, 1599-1684.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial arts--History.

Industrial arts.

Inventions.

Machinery--Early works to 1800.

Machinery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,xi,[1],40,[6],81,[i.e.85],[1]p. )

Other Title:

Century of the names and scantlings of such inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected,

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : printed by A. Duncan and R. Chapman, M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]

Notes:

The original imprint date of 1792 has been altered to 1794 by imposing a "V" over the final "I" of "M.DCC.XCII".

Includes: 'Dud Dudley's metallum martis. Or, an account of the difficulties he encountered, in erecting forges for making of iron, smelting it with pit-coal, sea-coal, &c. in preference to charcoal, in 1654', with separate titlepage (also exhibiting the altered imprint date from 1792 to 1794) and pagination (p. 85 misnumbered 81); the register is continuous.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T119107.

OCLC:

642319406