Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine

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Lieutenant Henderson in Cornwall--Boulton’s financial embarrassments increase--Boulton and Fothergill--The “Soho pictures”--Watt’s letter-copying machine--Boulton pushes the machine--Demand for copying-presses--More financial difficulties--Watt’s sufferings and melancholy--More Cornish engines wanted--Engine-dues--Boulton cheers Watt--Mining adventurers’ meetings--Boulton and Watt take shares--The mines--Boulton organises the mining business--Boulton’s house at Cosgarne, Cornwall--Mrs. Watt describes her husband’s miseries and weakness--The engine patent threatened by the Cornish men--Watt on patent right--The Birmingham Copper Company--Boulton improves engine-boilers by introducing tubes--His MSS. and drawings concerning mechanical and scientific experiments--His indefatigable industry 261–284