The Steam Engine, From the Earliest to the Present Time: Atmospheric Railways, the Electric Printing Telegraph, and Screw Propeller

Excerpt from The Steam Engine, From the Earliest to the Present Time: Atmospheric Railways, the Electric Printing Telegraph, and Screw Propeller

My Dear Sir - Perhaps I am the first person who ever dedicated a work to a Practical Mechanic. Rank and wealth are generally selected.

I estimate intellectual attainments and a love of science, far above titled ignorance or presumptuous wealth.

The qualities you possess - as honorable as they are rare - your ardent desire for the progression of science - induces me to inscribe this book to you.

And may that friendship, which we have reciprocated, continue, until old age has covered our temples with the frosts of many winters, or until the principle of Atmospheric Traction, for which we have contended, is added to the list of proved sciences.

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