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ALTHOUGH several treatises on the Steam- Engine have appeared, professing clearly and comprehensively to detail its construction and operation, yet it is generally admitted, that they are all, in different degrees, defective. Of these treatises, the best, unquestionably, is that by Professor Robison, inserted first in the Encyclopædia Britannica, and subsequently, with most important corrections and additions by Mr. Watt, in the valuable collection of the Professor's works. But this treatise, however excellent its theoretical disquisitions, and however luminous its exhibition of the projects to which his attention was directed, must principally still be regarded as an historical narrative of facts relating to the improvements introduced by Mr. Watt, rather than as a truly practical description of the Steam-Engine. The engravings, likewise, which illustrate this work, instead of exhibiting the engine according to the present modes of construction, refer to a period when it was encumbered with a ponderous wooden beam, arch-heads, spanners, and other clumsy apparatus; and when the rotary was produced from the reciprocating motion by the sun and planet wheels. Next in value to the treatise just mentioned, but far surpassing it in the style and correctness of its engraved representations, is the article "Steam-engine," inserted in the Cyclopædia of Dr. Rees. But this essay, although possessing many claims to approbation, labours under the various defects incident to the arrangements of a Cyclopædia, and is far from being a full illustration of the engine even at that period. When, therefore, we turn our attention from these and other literary and graphic delineations, and contemplate the Steam-engine as it really exists, stupendous in power, and magnificent in its influence; when we recollect that for its origin, growth, and rapid advance towards perfection, it has been solely indebted to British genius ; when we perceive the probability that, without its aid, England would never have attained that proud pre-eminence which she now holds in the scale of nations; and when we know, that it has been seriously questioned, whether, unaided by its gigantic energies, she could have successfully combated against a world in arms, we feel astonished that no adequate attempt should have been made to display this wonderful effort of British genius and British perseverance. We are persuaded it has not been from want of probable encouragement, or from want of ability in our artizans and manufacturers, to explain in a correct, or even in a masterly manner, the modes and principles of its construction, that this act of national and mechanical justice has been deferred. The manufacturers of this country are as intelligent as they are ingenious, and they are generally as desirous to encourage the literary and graphic display of their machines, as they are to improve them. The period, therefore, for supplying this deficiency has, we trust, now arrived; and it is proposed to publish, in nine monthly Parts, or thirty-six weekly Numbers, A TRULY THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE STEAMENGINE. The Work will be elegantly printed in Quarto, in new Types, and on three kinds of Paper, the prices being respectively six shillings, eight shillings, and ten shillings per Part. Each Part will consist of Eight Plates, printed on the finest Paper, and engraved in the most splendid manner, (as in the Specimen annexed) from Drawings made expressly for this Work, and Forty-eight pages of Letterpress. When complete, the Work will contain about Seventy Superb Engravings, representing in Plan, Elevation, Section, and Detail, the Engines of all the most celebrated makers, drawn to a scale so very exact, as really to be, what in the mechanical world are termed, Working Drawings. The Engravings that will first appear are representations of the following: dble. 4to. Elevation of High-pressure Engine dble. 4to. dble. 4to. 4to. ditto. Elevations of House-frame Engine. Section and Plan of ditto And, upon the same extensive scale, will be given Engravings of other most improved High-pressure and Locomotive Engines, and such as are applied to Steamnavigation. 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