A new century of inventions, being designs & descriptions of one hundred machines, relating to arts, manufactures & domestic life
A New Century of Inventions is a 1822 technical book by James White, published by Leech & Cheetham, describing one hundred machines for arts, manufactures and domestic life. Its plates are numbered engineering drawings of mechanisms, shown in plan, elevation and sectional views with lettered parts. A designer could draw on their clean line work, labelled diagrams and mechanical linkages for technical or retro illustration.
