In welchem das Leben und die Thaten der Patriarchen, Propheten, Apostel, Vätter der ersten Kirchen, Päbsten, Cardinälen, Bischöffen, Prälaten, vornehmer Gelehrten und Künstlern, nebst denen so genannten Ketzern; Wie nicht weniger derer Kayser, Könige, Chur- und Fürsten, Grafen, grosser Herren, berühmter Kriegs-Helden und Staats-Ministern; ... Und endlichen Die Beschreibung der Kayserthümern, Königreiche, Fürstenthümern, freyer Ständen, Landschafften, Insuln, Städten, Schlösser, Klöster, Gebürgen, Meeren, Seen, Flüssen, und so fortan; .. Dißmahlen von neuem mit Fleiß gantz übersehen

extracted out of original charters, records, leiger-books, and other manuscripts

with an appendix of patents and parliamentary papers connected with the subject

with a practical investigation of its structure and application

with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain : and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments

connected with a history of the rise and progress of the cotton manufacture in England and America : with remarks on the moral influence of manufactories in the United States

together with those which have been abandoned for the present session; to which are added, a table of distances from the proposed London termini to eight well-known places in the metropolis; a table exhibiting the length, cost, tunnelling, curves, etc., of each of the railways for which bills are now in progress through Parliament : with a glossary; and other useful information

including observations on railway and other locomotive engines, steam navigation, smoke burning, incrustations, explosions, etc., etc

nebst einer ausführlichen Übersicht des gegenwärtigen Standes dieser Kunst, in technischer, commerzieller und statistischer Hinsicht

practically described and illustrated