Excerpt from A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Vol. 1: Containing the Theory of Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and Pneumatics It may, probably, be imagined by some, that considering the advantages for that pu rpose, with which my situation at Woolwich furnishes me, I should insert descriptions of the various kinds of machinery used in the artilleny service. This, however, I have not done: chicfly because such descriptions, by Muller and other re spectable authors, are already easily procured in works appropriated exclusively to that important object, and where the accounts are given with far greater eopiousness than they could be in a perform ance where so many other objects are handled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
