Sinopsis

When I speak of writing a History of Projects, I do not mean either of the introduction of, or continuing, necessary inventions, or the improvement of arts and sciences before known, but a short of projects and projecting, as the word is allowed in the general acceptation at this present time; and I need not go far back for the original of the practice. Invention of arts, with engines and handicraft instruments for their improvement, requires a chronology as far back as the eldest son of Adam, and has