Fire engines - England - Early works to 1800

Miscellaneous works , in two parts. Part I. 1. On the Invention and Progress of Fire-Machinery. II. Remarks on the Conclusions of the Academy of Sciences at Peteriburg on the Theory of Fire Engines. III. On the pretended Plagiarisms of the English. IV. On the Properties of Corn Mills in England. Part II. I. A Letter to Prince Galitzin on Ancient and Modern Arts. II. A Second Letter on the same Subject to Monsieur Mauduit. III. A Third to the same on similar Matters. IV. On Ancient Shipping. V. On Weights and Measures in Solids and in Fluids, from an Universal Measure, to be found on the Degrees of the Meridian, and in the specific Gravity of a Fluid.