The Young MIll-Wright and Miller's Guide: In Five Parts, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

The reason why a book of this kind, although so much wanted, did not sooner appear, may be because they who have been versed in science and literature, have not had practice and experience in the arts; and they who have had practice and experimental knowledge, have not had time to acquire science and theory, those necessary quahtications for completing the system, and which are not to be found in any one man. Sensible of my deficiencies in both, I should not have undertaken it, was I not interested in the explanation of my own inventions. I have applied to such books and men of science as I expected assistance from, in forming a system of theory; and to practical mill-wrights and millers for the practice ;but finding no authors who had joined practice and experience with theory, (except Smeaton whom I have quoted) finding many of their theories to be erroneous, and losing the assistance of the late ingenious William Waring, the only scientific character of my acquaintance, who acknowledged that he had investigated the principles and powers of water acting on mill-wheels, I did not meet the aid 1expected in that part. Wherefore it is not safe to conclude that this work is without error but that it contains many.
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