A

DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

HYDRAÜLIC

OF

AND OTHER MACHINES

FOR

RAISING WATER,

flnrient anö fHotlcrn;

INCLUDING THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF

THE SIEAM ENGINE.

BY THOMAS EWBANK .

ULÜSTKATSD BY NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.

It is a eruel mortification in searching for what is instruetive in the history of past times, tofind that the exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who haverendered nations unhappy, are recorded with minute and often disgusting accuracy — while thediscovery of useful arts and the progress of the most beneficial branches of commerce are passedover in silenee, and suffered to sink into oblivion.

ROBERTSON.

LONDON :

TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXLII.