Excerpt from Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Vol. 1 of 5: Ancient and Modern; With Observations on Various Subjects
Though we do not hear so much now, as formerly, of unsuccessful projectors ending their troubles with a razor, a rope, or suffocation by water, nor of others expiring from excess of joy at imaginary success, like a watchmaker of Paris, there are hundreds, if not thousands, wearing themselves away in the pursuit of mechanical fallacies, and the revival of obsolete devices, for lack of knowing what has been done, and what is impossible to be done. As a general rule, inventors dislike to open themselves to either friends or strangers, but the most jealous can consult a book without fear of being robbed of his ideas, and the most sensitive without the dread of being laughed it. That this volume has been serviceable to such, and suggestive to others, the press has furnished sufiicient proof, and that it continues to do what it has done, is evinced by a continued demand for it.
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