The Miner S Friend Or An Engine To Raise Water By Fire Described

Excerpt from The Miner's Friend: Or, an Engine to Raise Water by Fire, Described It is upon this consideration I am encourage with a profound respect, to throw this perforr ance of mine, with the author, at your Majesty royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majest that, as it had birth in your Majesty's suspicion reign, you will vouchsafe to perpetuate it to futu ages by the sanction of your royal approbatio which is the utmost ambition of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Features the full text of "The Miners Friend; or an Engine to Raise Water by Fire, Described And Of the Manner of Fixing it in Mines With An Account of the Several Other Uses it is Applicable Unto: And An Answer to the Objections Made Against it," written by English military engineer Thomas Savery (1650?-1715) in 1702 and published online by the University of Rochester Department of History in New York State.

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This is a facsimile of the book of 1702 setting out the design and construction of the firststeam engine to do substatial work. The distinguished authority on the origins of the steam engine, Rhys Jenkins, wrote: "there is abosolutely no question that Savery was the first to produce a practical working apparatus for raising water by steam an to make and to supply to the public, such apparatus"