The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester: from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir

Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of · 1667

The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: y^e). If two or more letters are superscripted they are enclosed in curly brackets (example: heerew^{th}). "A practical mathematician, who has quickness to seize a hint, and sagacity to apply it, might avail himself greatly of these scantlings. It is extremely probable, that Savery took from the Marquis the hint of the Steam Engine, for raising water with a power made by fire, which invention alone would entitle the author to immortality."--_Granger's Biog. Hist._ vol. v. p. 278.…

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