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 . this last plainly indicates the motivepower as having been a mill. He proposes in his patentspecification :— To make a boat that roweth, draweth,or setteth even against wind or stream, yea, both, and toany part of the compass which way soever the stream runsor wind blows, and yet the force of the wind or streamcauseth its motion, nothing being required but a steers-man ; and whilest the boat stayeth to be loaded orunloaded, the
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 . this last plainly indicates the motivepower as having been a mill. He proposes in his patentspecification :— To make a boat that roweth, draweth,or setteth even against wind or stream, yea, both, and toany part of the compass which way soever the stream runsor wind blows, and yet the force of the wind or streamcauseth its motion, nothing being required but a steers-man ; and whilest the boat stayeth to be loaded orunloaded, the stream or wind shall perform such workas any water-mill or wind-mill is capable of. Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum,there is an Italian book of sketches on parchment. , 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 of a very primitive form, tobe operated by men working at two crank Marquis seems to have had a very similar idea,only employing the mechanical arrangements of asuitable wind or 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 1574, Ralph Eabbards* presented to Queen Eliza-beth, through the medium of the venerable Lord Burgh-ley, a list of twenty-five inventions. The 24th is:— Therarest engine that was ever invented for sea vessel in manner of a galley or galliotte to pass uponthe seas and rivers without oars or sail, against windand tide, swifter than any that ever hath been seen;of wonderful effect both for intelligence, and manyother admirable exploits, almost beyond the expectationof man. William Bourne, in his Inventions or Devices,published in 1578, most of whi
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