"The respect which in all ages and countries has ever been paid to inventors seems, indeed, to rest
on something more profound than mere gratitude for the benefits which they have been the means
of conferring on mankind; and to imply, if it does not express, a consciousness that by the grand and
original conceptions of their minds they approach somewhat more nearly than their fellows to the
qualities and pre-eminence of a higher order of being."-Muirhead.
ROBERTSON, BROOMAN, AND CO.,
Mechanics' Magazine Office,
166, FLEET-STREET.
:-EDINBURGH, J. SUTHERLAND; GLASGOW, W. R. M'PHUN, AND DAVID
ROBERTSON; DUBLIN, HODGES AND SMITH, 104, GRAFTON STREET;
PARIS, A. & W. GALIGNANI, RUE VIVIENNE;
HAMBURGH, W. CAMPBELL.