The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester

Name: The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester
Author: Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester

by Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester

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The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by deaurider, Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2015-03-24

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Industrial arts -- Early works to 1800 Inventions -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester

1601–1667

A Royalist nobleman, inventor, and writer, he is best remembered for the remarkable devices described in A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Inventions. His life mixed court politics, civil war, imprisonment, and an enduring reputation as an early pioneer of steam-powered ideas.

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