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 and collections such as the Philosophical Transactions, appearing here together in book form for the first time. Item #44033
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