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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Friends of Boulton and Watt--The Lunar Society--Provincial scientific societies--Distinguished associates of the Lunar Society--Dr. Darwin--Dr. Priestley, his gifts and accomplishments--Josiah Wedgwood--Meetings and discussions of the Lunar Society--Dr. Priestley’s speculations and experiments--Composition of water, Watt and Cavendish--Bleaching by chlorine--Sun-pictures--Saint-Fond at Birmingham, his descriptions of Watt and Priestley--Decline of the Lunar Society 367–385