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 151
maintained during theseinteresting experiments, has given a graphic account ofthe difficulties which he successively encountered andovercame. He relates that on his return from thecountry, after the College vacation in 1765, he went tohave a chat with Watt and communicate to him someobservations he… … WATTS APPARATI Chap. Yll. KOBISON AND WATT. 131 had on his knee. Robison immediately started theconversation about steam, his mind, Hke Watts, beingoccu23ied with the means of avoiding the excessivewaste of heat in the Newcomen engine. Watt, all thewhile, kept looking into the fire, and after a…
