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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Thomas Savery--The Savery family--Savery’s mechanical experiments and contrivances--His paddle-boat--Treatise on ‘Navigation Improved’--Cornish mines and the early pumping machinery--Savery’s “Fire-engine”--Exhibition of his model--Explanations in the ‘Miner’s Friend’--The engine tried in Cornwall--Its failure at Broadwaters, Staffordshire--Savery’s later years--His death and testament 39–58