x, 246 pages 27 cm

Cover title and half-title: Collected papers of Rhys Jenkins

"Published works of Rhys Jenkins": pages 235-237

Includes bibliographical references

Elizabethan human-power engine: John Payne and the history of the treadmill -- Slitting mill -- Bevis Bulmer -- Vauxhall ordnance factory of King Charles I: the Marquis of Worcester -- Fast and loose pulleys -- Railways in the sixteenth century -- Origin of the spring balance -- Contribution to the history of the steam engine -- Savery, Newcomen and the early history of the steam engine -- Henry Beighton and the Newcomen engine -- Steam-engine crank: Matthew Wasbrough -- Unpublished book on the steam engine: Trevithick -- Some old iron castings -- Beginnings of ironfounding in England -- Foundry cupola and chilled iron -- Boiler-making

Notes on the London bridge waterworks -- Old engineering price list: Sir Samuel Morland's pumps -- Early watercloset: 1596 -- George Sorocold: a chapter in the history of public water supply -- Paper-making in England, 1495-1788 -- Alum trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the beginnings of the alum industry in England -- Roller mills: an historical sketch -- Early days of the tinplate industry, with particular reference to the Neath district -- Protection of inventions during the Commonwealth and Protectorate

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