Note 1 — LECTURE I.
Reading edition
Dedication to "The Century of Inventions."
[2] See Worcesteriana, 8vo. 1866, page 257.
[3] See engraving and account of it in The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Marquis of Worcester, 8vo. p. 398. 1865.
[4] Ibid, page 180.
[5] For lists of the names of members on the several Committees appointed on the occasion of this Act being applied for, see—"The Life, Times, &c.," 8vo. 1866, pages 254-5.
[6] From "Worcesteriana," 8vo. 1866, page viii.
[7] He was the author of a pamphlet now very rare, and which is absurdly enough attributed by Horace Walpole to the Marquis of Worcester. A reprint will be found in "The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Marquis of Worcester," 8vo. 1866, page 559. It contains the following intimation to the reader:—
"I think it not amiss to give further notice in his Lordship's behalf, that he intends within a month or two, to erect an Office, and to entrust some very responsible and honourable persons with power to treat and conclude with such as desire at a reasonable rate, to reap the benefit of the same Water-commanding Engine."
So that it is manifest a public company was intended to be established in 1663-4, to extend operations with the engine then actually raising water at Vauxhall.