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 163
m from doing anything for three or four daysafter. But he went on with his experiments, patchingup his engine, and endeavouring to get it into workingcondition. After about a months labour, he at lastsucceeded to his hearts content; and he at once com-municated the news to his partner, intimating… … IINNEII, HODSK, Kinneil House, to which Watt hastened to j)ay hisvisit of congratulation to Dr. Eoebuck, is an old-fashionedIjuilding, somewhat resembling an old French chateau.It was a former country-seat of the Dukes of Hamilton,and is finely situated on the sliores of the Fritli ofForth. The…
