Author Description

Excerpt from Recent Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Being a Supplement to His Dictionary It is under a sense of this responsibility that I have written the leading articles of this Supplement, having enjoyed some peculiar advantages in my profession for making the requisite researches and comparisons. I trust that not many of them deserve to be regarded as trite compilations or as frivolous novelties, with the exception! A few of the notices of recent patents, which Ihave intentionally exhibited a beacons to deter from treacherous quicksands, not as lights to friendly havens. I have sought sincerely to make them all conducive, more onless, to utility; being either new contributions to the old stock of knowledge, or additions and corrections to the miscellaneous volume of which the present is the sequel. 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.