Note 18 — Chapter II · Sir Samuel Morland—Dr. Dionysius Papin.

His first idea seems to have been to employ gunpowder for the production of motive power, for in the ‘Calendar of State Papers’ (Dom) we find the following entry:—“Decr. 11th, 1691.—Warrant for a grant to Sir Samuel Morland of the sole use for 14 years of his invention for raising water out of pits, &c., to a reasonable height, by the force of powder and air conjointly.”—(‘Entry Book,’ V., p. 85.) In vol. XLVI., p. 49, we find this entry under the same date:—“Warrant for a grant to Sir S. Morland of the sole making of an engine invented by him for raising water in mines or pits, draining marshes, or supplying buildings with water.”