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The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester

by Henry Dircks

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Edward Somerset, second Marquis of Worcester, lived from about 1601 to 1667 and was a royalist nobleman through the English Civil War. Henry Dircks, a civil engineer, wrote his life and times in 1865 and presents him as a pioneer of steam power, whose mechanical ideas gave him lasting fame.

The book also reprints the Marquis's Century of Inventions of 1663, with a commentary by Dircks. The frontispiece shows him with his second wife, Margaret, and their only daughter, Mary, who died as an infant.

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Henry Dircks pursued practical engineering, scientific writing, chemistry, invention, and literary history across an unusually varied career. He worked on railway, canal, and mining projects, later becoming a consulting engineer, and he belonged to several learned societies.

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