Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion. And an Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power Necessary to be Employed in Giving Different Degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies from a State of Rest. Also New Fundamental Experiments upon the Collision of Bodies.
London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. First edition thus. 8vo. iv, 110 pp. Contemporary full calf, sometime rebacked with a new red gilt lettered label. 5 folding plates of machinery and apparatus. Some wear to the boards, else very good. Smeaton's papers were previous published singly in journals..... More