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All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual Draught of Horses, &c. will be requir'd, in Waggons, Carts, Coaches, and all other Wheel Vehicles, as likewise all Water-Mills, Wind-Mills and Horse-Mills. This Method being found good in Practice, by the trial of a Coach and Cart already made, shews of what great Advantage it may be to all Farmers, Carriers, Masons, Miners, &c. and to the Publick in general, by saving them one half of the Expences they are now at in the Draught of these Vehicles, according to the common Method. The whole illustrated with Copper Plates. And an Explanation of the Structure of a Coach and Cart, according to this Method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq
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An Estimate of the Advantages that will accrueto the Publicity by means of Cancelling the' Fri&ion of the Wheels Pulley , Balance ,Pendidum , &c.

A S I have no other design but to makethis Calculation considerably within va-lue, £b will I only compute the saving inWheel Carriage, (by means of diminishingthe Friction) only in drawing up Hill (withoutthe additional help by the Wind Tackle)which is about two for one; that is, oneHorse will draw as much as two in the com-mon way : And then suppose the labour os aHorse to be valued at one shilling and sixpence per day, and that forty thousand areemployed in this Kingdom in Wheel Carri-age, there will consequently be a gain inthe whole of 1,095,000 pounds per annum yor 3000 pounds per day. But as one Horsenow will do the labour of two, I will sup-pose that there will be occasion to employonly twenty thousand, and consequently thetxpence of twenty thousand Horses, allowing

 
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