CHAPTER XXIII.
Watt’s closing years--His pursuits--His machine for copying statuary--Medallions of his friends--His garret workshop--Mrs. Watt’s rule over her husband--Tenacious retention of his faculties--Is consulted by the Glasgow Waterworks Company--His visits to Cheltenham and other places--Growth and improvement of Glasgow--Watt’s interview with the brothers Hart--His conversational powers--Sir Walter Scott’s panegyric on Watt--His extensive and varied knowledge--His anecdotal powers--Fondness for novels--Description of him by visitors at Heathfield--His last improvements in the sculpture-copying machine--His last illness and peaceful death--Monumental honours--Lord Brougham’s inscription--His qualities and genius--His modesty--His close observation--Facts and theory--Watt and Smeaton compared--Universal application of the steam-engine--Conclusion 488–514
INDEX 515
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PORTRAIT OF JAMES WATT _to face Title-page_ „ MATTHEW BOULTON _to face page_ 159 PAGE Edward, second Marquis of Worcester 2 Ancient Greek Æolipile 3 Branca’s Machine 7 De Caus’s Steam Apparatus 9 Ruins of Raglan Castle 26 Dionysius Papin 31 Ancient Paddle-Boat 36 Thomas Savery 41 Section of Savery’s Paddle-Boat 43 Savery’s Fire-Engine 52 Huel Vor 55 Newcomen’s House, Dartmouth 60 Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine 67 Ruins of Wheal Fortune 70 Polgooth 71 Jonathan Hull’s Steam-Boat 73 Dartmouth from the Harbour 76 Greenock and the Clyde, 1865 78 Greenock Harbour, 1768 79 Crawfordsburn House, Greenock 80 James Watt Tavern, Greenock 87 Trongate, Glasgow 97 Inner Quadrangle, Glasgow College 107 Isometric View of Glasgow College, 1693 108 The Broomielaw in 1760 116 Professor Robison 117 Papin’s Digester 120 The Newcomen Model 121 Watt’s House, Delftfield Lane 126 Watt’s first Improved Apparatus 130 Dr. Joseph Black 132 Kinneil House 142 Outhouse behind Kinneil 148 Hamilton Bridge 156 Port Glasgow 158 Birmingham 160 Soho Manufactory 169 Soho House 177 Watt’s House, Harper’s Hill 214 Map of United Mines District 231 Watt’s Pumping-Engine for Mines 236 Redruth, High Street 238 Cardozos Pumping-Engine 260 United Mines District and St. Day 261 Cosgarne House 275 Entrance to ditto 284 The “Waggon and Horses,” Handsworth 285 The Crank as applied in the Foot-Lathe 287 Interior of the “Waggon and Horses” 288 Old Engine-House, Dalcoath 306 Sun-and-Planet Motion 309 “Old Bess” Engine 326 The parallel Motion 334 The Governor 335 Polgooth Engine-House 339 Double Acting Engine, Albion Mill 355 Dr. Priestley 370 Site of Soho Mint 399 Burning of Dr. Priestley’s House 411 William Murdock 422 Murdock’s House, Handsworth 433 Miller’s Triple Vessel 437 Symington’s first Steamboat-Engine 441 Miller’s Experimental Steamboat 442 Machinery of the ‘Charlotte Dundas’ 447 The “Comet” passing Dumbarton 453 Watt’s House, Heathfield 456 Boulton’s Monument in Handsworth Church 478 The Garret at Heathfield 494 Water-Pipe in the Bed of the Clyde 497 Watt’s Chapel and Monument, Handsworth Church 508 Handsworth Church 514
BEGINNINGS OF THE STEAM-ENGINE:
THE EARLY INVENTORS.
BEGINNINGS OF THE STEAM-ENGINE:
THE EARLY INVENTORS.