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 169
ceedings, and as he wishedto avoid display, beingdetermined, as he said, not to puff, he fixedupon an outhouse behindKinneil, close by the burn-side in the glen, wherethere was abundance ofwater and secure 23ri-vacy. The materials werebrought to the place,partly from Watts smallworks at Glasgow,… … IHK UUJHUUSK BiiBlMD K1J>J^JK1L. . Mr. ]l;irfs Ik-ininisceiicos of James Wat(,Gla«iio\v Aicliafdo-ical Society, Fart 1. 1851), ill Transactions of the Chap. YIII. THE ENGINE COMPLETED. 149 the clumsiness of the mechanics employed on the job.Watt was occasionally compelled to be absent on…
