CHAPTER X.

Water- and horse-power at Soho--Boulton’s correspondence with Benjamin Franklin concerning fire-engine--Boulton’s model--Correspondence with Dr. Darwin and Dr. Roebuck--Watt visits Soho--First meeting of Boulton and Watt--Correspondence of Boulton and Watt, and of Dr. Small and Watt--Dr. Roebuck visits Boulton--Watt’s anxiety for Boulton to join him--Watt’s discouragements--His continued experiments and their failure--Watt engineer for the Monkland Canal--Commercial panic--Watt loses employment as canal engineer--Roebuck’s failure--Terms of proposed partnership between Watt, Small, and Boulton--Roebuck’s share in Watt’s engine transferred to Boulton--Watt’s arrival at Birmingham 182–198