Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine (1865)
Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott and company; · leaf 100
GREENOCK AND THE CLYDE, 1865.[By E. P. Leitch, after a sketch by J. S Smiles.] … GREENOCK HAP.BODR, 176S.[Fac-simile of an old prmt..l CHAPTEK y. James AVatt — Lineage and Birthplace — Boyhood and iVppRENTICESHIP. James Watt was born at Grreenock, on the Clyde, ontlie 19tli of January, 1736. His parents were of tliemiddle class, industrious, intelligent, and religiouspeople,…