All Sorts Of Wheel Carriage Improved Wherein It Is Plainly Made Appear That A Much Less Than The

by Jacob Rowe

$2,850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Early marbled paper wrappers The invention of frictionless carriage wheels. Rowe, referred to by some as Captain Rowe suggesting a nautical career, was an English polymath and inventor. He is best remembered as a pioneer of English diving, authoring a work on the subject in 1730 and patenting a diving machine following his successful underwater recovery of 33 tons of silver from the wreck of the East India Company ship Vansittart. In the present work, he explores

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