. The panorama of science and art. lled A Century of Inventions, in which one hundred con-trivances of his own are enumerated: the account he furnishesof each is short, and often very obscure; with the latter faultis particularly chargeable, the description he furnishes of anengine for raising water by the force of steam. At this day,we have no means of certainly knowing whether the discoveryof Brancas was known to the Marquis or not; but it is not sus-pected that he was acquainted with it, and therefore the Eng-lish are inclined to consider the original idea of the steamengine as having arise
. The panorama of science and art. lled A Century of Inventions, in which one hundred con-trivances of his own are enumerated: the account he furnishesof each is short, and often very obscure; with the latter faultis particularly chargeable, the description he furnishes of anengine for raising water by the force of steam. At this day,we have no means of certainly knowing whether the discoveryof Brancas was known to the Marquis or not; but it is not sus-pected that he was acquainted with it, and therefore the Eng-lish are inclined to consider the original idea of the steamengine as having arisen in their own country: the French, onthe contrary, claim it for themselves, and bring forward thename of Papin ; but Papins application of steam as a motive-force, was not published till 16L0, which was 27 years afterthe Marquis of Worcesters puUlication. But let i-t even besupposed that for Brancas, the Marquis, and Papin, the claimto independent and original invention could be substantiated; ir33)!R©SXAnr§ ATOS Pn7)/tjhJf>y Xn/tal/Pshcr ScCLiverpcol HYDROSTATICS AND HYDRAULICS. 129 Hjdr&ulics. Steam-engiiK. yet the Italians and French have no claim to not>ice afterwards,for following up the ideas of their countrymen ; it is solely tothe English that the world is indebted for rendering the steam-engin-e what it now is, the noblest machine ever invented byman ;—the pride of the mechanist—the admiration of the phi-losopher.—Animals require long and frequent periods of relaxa-tion from fatigue, and any great accumulation of their poweris not obtained without great expense and inconvenience ; thewind is mutable to a proverb; and water, the constancy ofwhich is in few places equal to the wants of the mechanist,cannot in general be obtained on the spot where other circum-stances require machinery to be erected. To relieve us fromall these difficulties, the last century has given us the steam-engine for a resource ; the power of this assis
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