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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Slow progress in invention of the steam-engine--Thomas Newcomen of Dartmouth--His study of steam-power--Correspondence with Dr. Hooke of the Royal Society--Newcomen’s experiments--Assisted by John Calley--Newcomen’s atmospheric engine--Newcomen and Calley erect their first engine--Humphrey Potter the turn-cock boy’s contrivance--Engines erected at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leeds, and Cornwall--Wheal Fortune engine--Mr. William Lemon--Joseph Hornblower--Jonathan Hulls and steam propulsion of ships--His steamboat--Extended use of the Newcomen engines in Cornwall and northern mining counties--Payne, Brindley, and Smeaton, improvers of the steam-engine 59–76