A treatise of universal inland navigations, and the use of all sorts of mines. A work entirely new. Recommended to the inhabitants of Great-Britain and Ireland. Plainly demonstrating the possibility of making any river and stream of running water in the world navigable, by Canals of a New Construction, without Locks and Dams, with Estimations of the Expence of he making thereof per Mile in Length. Together With The Construction, Explanation, and Use, of a New Invented Mechanical and Hydraulical Machine, for island Navigation of this New Construction, which will raise, on [an] Inclined Plane, Boats ... Lighte ... and cargoes all at once, even to Fifty Fathoms in Perpendicular, without unloading. To which is added a supplement, Plainly demonstrating the Possibility ... Means whereby a Ship of any Size may be Launched at any Time, except at Low Ebb, without waiting for the Time of High Water; together with ... Construction, Explanation, and Use of a Machine for that Purpose, ... to shew the Lower and Force required to draw or roll a Ship up upon a Launch of any Size, not more than Two Thousand Tons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leach, Edmund, surveyor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inland navigation--Early works to 1800.

Inland navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],vi,[2],201,[1]p.,5plates,tables ) map ;

Other Title:

Treatise of universal inland navigations,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Edmund Leach, and sold by Mess. Sewell and Richardson, ...; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Flexney, Holborn; Mr. Parsley, near Christ Church, Surry-Side of Blackfriars Bridge; and by most Booksellers in Town and Country, [1790]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Edmund Leach.

The tables are numbered, duplicating the pagination, but are not part of the register.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T123391.

OCLC:

642341842