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Excerpt from Inventions, Improvements, and Practice of Benjamin Thompson, in the Combined Character of Colliery Engineer, and General Manager: With Some Interesting Particulars Relative to Watt's Steam Engine, and a Short Treatise on the Coal Trade Regulation The following pages have been recently written, partly for amuse ment, and partly with the view of collecting together, and describing (those given being a portion only of) the inventions and improve ments which had engaged the Author, at intervals, in connexion with his occupations, during a course of many years; and not with the remotest intention of publishing them. Having, however, been advised that the work contained matter that would probably be acceptable to persons in the coal trade, he was, at length, persuaded to send it to the press. 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.