STORIES

OF

INVENTORS

AND

DISCOVERERS

IN

Science and the Useful Arts.

A BOOK FOR OLD AND YOUNG.

BY JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.

AUTHOR OF "CURIOSITIES OF LONDON," "THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN

With Illustrations.

The First Practical Steam-boat (p. 279).

*s, that those by whom we are most benefited should be most honoured."-DR. JOHNSON's Rambler.

LONDON:

ND CO. (LATE BOGUE), FLEET STREET.

MDCCCLX.

210. m. 294.

STORIES

OF

INVENTORS

AND

DISCOVERERS

IN

Science and the Useful Arts.

A BOOK FOR OLD AND YOUNG.

BY JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.

AUTHOR OF "CURIOSITIES OF LONDON," "THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOW

"Justice exacts, that those by whom we are most benefited should be most
honoured."-DR. JOHNSON's Rambler.

LONDON:

KENT AND CO. (LATE BOGUE), FLEET STREET.

MDCCCLX.

210. m. 294.