SYMINGTON'S

PATENT

HORIZONTAL WINDMILL.

THIS has nothing to do with Steam Navigation. It is given merely to show a simple and beautiful motion never before obtained. A few words will describe its capabilities.

Perhaps no mechanical problem has received more attention, than the best mode of applying to machinery, that cheapest of all motive powers, the wind. The common vertical Windmills are attended with so many acknowledged dangers and inconveniences, that to construct a really efficient and simple horizontal Windmill, has engaged the attention of some of our first engineers in this department of constructive science-among whom was the celebrated Smeaton-but the machinery employed to produce the feathering motion, has been so complicated, and the expense of erection so great, as to render this object hitherto unattainable. These numerous though unsuccessful attempts, however, show at once the value attached to such a contrivance, and, it would seem, the difficulty of its accomplishment.

Mr. Symington, it is believed, has succeeded in at length supplying this important object-in having designed a horizontal Windmill, which is not only of much simpler and cheaper construction than the ordinary vertical mill, but certainly more efficient.