June 3. — A machine was going at this time at a colliery at Chartershaugh, in the county of Durham, belonging to William Peareth, esq., invented by Michael Menzies, esq., (for which he had obtained an act of parliament to secure the property to himself) by which coals were drawn up, not by the power of horses, but by the descent of a bucket full of water, to a weight superior to that of the coals dawn up, lifting a corf of above 600lb. weight out of a pit 50 fathoms deep in two minutes. [LRS]

 

 

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes