| Title: | Copy? Description Of Henry Rivers' Wind Powered Engine |
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| Dating: | undated |
| Ref: | 63/6/1A-2B: 2A BLANK |
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An Engin of very great force to be driuen about by the winde and moving Horizontally. It will goe continually night & day while the winde blowes; and although the winde turne or change neuer so often yet will the Engin continue in motion and runne alwayes one & the same way without any attendance or looking to. If the winde att. any time be too violent & boisterous, as much of the sailes as one will may be folded up. If you would haue the Engin stand still without motion the sailes be may be folded up quite.
The uses it may be applyed unto are many,
some wherof follow.
To grinde any Corne, graine or seed, as wheat, malt, oates, pease, beanes, rape seed.
To driue Paper-mills, Iron mills, Gunpowder mills, Plate Mills &c.
To grinde woad and other things for Dyers
To grinde bark for Tanners
To grinde or bruise Apples, Peares, Crabs, for Cidar, Perry veriuice.
To grinde Colours for Potters, Painters, Glasshouses.
To grinde Tile, stones, or earth for Plaster
To grinde Sugar Canes.
To grinde <ginger & other> Spices or snuff-Tobacco.
<To grinde liquorice Turmarick, sanders, horsespice.>
To raise water for the Cities, Townes, priuate houses, Brewhouses, Dye houses &c.
To raise water for the draining of Fennes, &c.
To raise water for the ouerflowing or watering of lands.
To draw up Coales, ore, stones, chalk, marle, earth, water, out of Coalepits, mines, deep pits & wells.
To draw to the top of steep hills, Corne, hey, water, materialls for buildings, &c.
<To draw or Crane up wares, great Gunnes, &c. out of Ships unlading.>
To draw up the materials as timber, stones, lead, mortar, &c. for great & high buildings while they are in making or repairing.
To brake Hemp or flax.
To saw timber or stone.
To boare timber, for Pumps, Pipes for conveying of water, &c.
To smooth or pollish great stones for Pauements, Tombstones, &c.
To make a vessell which shall row itself which way you please to steere it, be it against winde & tide.
the Engin beeing placed on a Barge or vessell made to that purpose will serue to
{draw out of the water, great Gunnes, merchants goods or other
{ things shipwract & sunk
To {draw up grauell & sand for the ballasting of ships.
{draw up stones, grauell, &c from shelues; & shallow places
{<which hinder the passage of boates> in nauigable riuers.
And the vessell if you please may be made to row it self from place to place.
With this Engin you may make a Mill in <a> Boate or vessell to be on the water.
With this Engin in plaine & open places you may make Carts, Ploughes &c goe by the strength of the winde only, euen against the winde, or which way you will.
Note that for most of the uses before mentioned, as for the making of Cornemills &c. the Engin may be sett on a slight frame, or it may be sett on a faire habitable house, or other building standing alone. It may be sett on any house or structure (the top whereof lyth open to the winde) in Citie, Towne, or village. It may be sett on a Castell or
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Bulwark or other convenient place for the use of a Garrison. For a mans priuate use in the Countrie, it may be sett either on his dwelling house, or some out-house as malt-house, Granarie, Bakehouse, &c. as shalbe thought most commodious. The mill may be placed either in a lower or upper roome.
Note that of such workes as require not very great strength, the Engin may performe diuers at one time. For Example, beeing made for the use of a Smith, it may att once Keep goeing his bellowes, turne his Grind-stone beat this piece of iron, file that piece, bore an other & pollish an other; pump his water, turne his spitt, bolt his meale, and if he must needs haue sawce to his meate, it will turne his mustardmill.
