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 259
ake less noise; butMr. Wilson cannotsleep without itseems quite furious,so I have left it tothe engine-men;and, by the by, thenoise seems to con-vey great ideas ofits power to theignorant, who seemto be no more takenwith modest meritin an engine than In ni a man. m alater letter hewrote, The… … VVAlTa alNCiLE-isCTIx\G f02JPIM(J-EKLillME IOR illNKl: Watt 1.) P><)iilt()ii, lytli ScptcnilK^r, 1777, Chap. XIII. WATT AGAIN IN COENWALL.- 237 A number of orders for engines had come in at Solioduring Watts absence; and it became necessary for himto return tliere as speedily as possible, to…
