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 129
isited the room someyears since, we fonixl laid there thegalvanic apparatus employed by Pro-fessor Thomson for perfecting the invention of his delicate process ofsignaUing through the wires of theAtlantic Telegraph. 108 FINDS HIMSELF IX DIFFICULTIES. Chap. YI. down. The slioj) occupied by Watt is… … ISOMETRIC VIEW OF GLASGOW COLLEGE, 1693, FROil SLETERS THEATRUM SCOTIiE l Though his wants were few, and he lived on humblefare, Watt found it very difficult to earn a subsistenceby his trade. His father sent him remittances fromtime to time ; but the old man had suffered serious lossesin his own…
