Note 2 — BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR SAMUEL BENTHAM.
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Mr. Samuel Bentham had amongst his other contrivances for shaping wood, described one in his patent of 1793, for shaping the shells of blocks, but with a singular degree of candour and generosity, he at once acknowledged the superiority of Brunel's machinery.—Smiles's Industrial Biography. London, 1863.