“ THE late Frost having been almost as intense as any that hath been for many Years, I send you my Account of it; which if you think Worth the Cognizance of the Royal Society, be pleased to impart it to them. ”

“ First, If instead of sixteen Forcers they worked only eight, the Stroke might be five Feet in each Forcer, which would draw a great deal more Water with the same Power on the Wheel; for then there would be but half the opening and shutting of Valves, consequently but half that Loss: And a five Foot Stroke draws above double the Quantity of two Strokes of 21⁄2 each, by near 1⁄3, in regard the Velocity is double, which is the most valuable Consideration in an Engine, where the Pipes will sustain such Force. ”

“ By Means of this Machine the Strength of an ordinary Man will raise about fifty Ton Weight.
I, I, is a Cog-Wheel fixed near the End of the great Axis, 8 Feet Diameter, and 44 Cogs working into a Trundle K, of 41/2 Foot Diameter, and 20 Rounds, whose Axis or Spindle is of Cast Iron 4 Inches in Diameter, lying in Brasses at each End, as at X.
Z Z is a quadruple Crank of Cast Iron, the Metal being 6 Inches square, each of the Necks being turned one Foot from the Center, which is fixed in Brasses at each End in two Head-stocks fastned down by Caps. ”

“ I am now convinced, that their swinish Way of living, and the common Opinion so deeply rooted in the Generality of People, that this Lock of Hair cannot be taken off without Danger of their Lives, have contributed more to this Complaint than any real Indisposition of Body ”

“ First, The opening and shutting of the Valves lose nearly so much of that Column, as the Height they rise and fall.
Secondly, No Leather is strong enough for the Piston, but there must continually slip or squeeze by some Water, when it is raised to a great Height; and when the Column is short, it will not press the Leather enough to the Cylinder, or Barrel; But especially at the Beginning, or first moving of the Piston, there is so little Weight on it, that before the Leather can expand, there is some Loss. ”

“ The Wheel lies with its two Gudgeons, or Centers, A B, upon two Brasses in the Pieces M N, which are two great Levers, whose Fulcrum, or Prop, is an arched Piece of Timber L, the Levers being made circular on their lower Sides to an Arch of the Radius M O, and kept in their Places by two arching Studs fixed in the Stock L, through two Mortises in the Lever M N.
The Wheel is, by these Levers, made to rise and fall with the Tide, which is performed in this Manner. The Levers M N are 16 Feet long ”

“ But no German, of whom there are great Numbers, who live in that Country, ever had any such thing grow. Many of them, who are married to Women of Polish Birth, are scarce able to perswade their Wives not to train up their Children to this Nastiness. ”

“ After I had found that the Metals were thus Electrical, I went on to make Trials on other Bodies, as Flint-Stone, Sand-Stone, Load-Stone, Bricks, Tiles, Chalk; and then on several vegetable Substances, as well green as dry, and found that they had all of them an Electrick Vertue communicated to them, either by being suspended on the Tube by a Line, or fixed on the End of it by the Method above mentioned. ”

“ From the lower Part of the Cylinders d1, d2, d3, d4, come out Necks turning upward Arch-wise, as g g g g, whose upper Parts are cast with Flanches to skrew up to the Trunk h h h h; which Necks have Bores of 7 Inches Diameter, and Holes in the Trunk above communicating with them, at which Joining are placed four Valves. The Trunk is cast with four Bosses, or Protuberances, standing out against the Valves to give room for their opening and shutting; and on the upper Side are four Holes stopped with Plugs, to take out on Occasion, to cleanse the Valves. ”

“ To the other, Iron Pipes are joined, as i 2, by Flanches, through which the Water is forced up to any Height or Place required.
Besides these four Forcers, there are four more placed at the other Ends of the Libræ, or Levers (not shewn here to avoid Confusion, but to be seen on the left Hand) the Rods being fixed at a 1, 2, 3, 4, working in four such Cylinders, with their Parts d d, &c. e e, f, g g, and i, as before described, standing near k k.
At the other End of the Wheel (at B) is placed all the same Sort of Work as at the End A is described, viz. ”

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399. Virga aurea, montana; folio angusto, sub incano; flosculis conglobatis. Raii Syn. Ed. 2. 81.
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II.⁠A Description of the Water-Works at London-Bridge, explaining the Draught of Tab. I.⁠By H. Beighton, F.R.S. THE Wheels are placed under the Arches of London-Bridge, and moved by the common Stream of the Tide-Water of the River Thames. ”