English inventor, ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher (1664-1729)

Specimina ichnographica: or, a brief narrative of several new inventions, and experiments; particularly, The navigating of a ship in a calm, the improvement of the engine to raise water by fire, a new method of drying malt &c. For all which his Majesty has lately been most graciously pleas'd to grant his Letters Patent to John Allen, M.D / [John Allen].

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