The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon (1865)
Dircks, Henry, 1806-1873 · London : B. Quaritch · leaf 441
ill is capable of. Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum,there is an Italian book of sketches on parchment. No.3281, attributed to the 15th century, entitled, Deli-neationes Machinarum; from one of the pen and inkdrawings of which the annexed engraving is a reducedcopy. It is a paddle boat… … WITH NOTES. 409 In that line work, Vitruvia de Arcliitectura, folio,Como, 1521, there is an engraving of a large vesselpropelled by paddles, worked by animal power;therefore, so far as such a mode of propulsion isconcerned, paddle-wheels are of very ancient origin.In 1574, Ralph Eabbards* presented…
Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667 · Inventions · Industrial arts -- History
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