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 298
, prettily situatedat Cosgarne, in the Grwennap valley. Though theUnited Mines district was close at hand, and fourteenof Boulton and Watts engines were at work in theimmediate neighbourhood, not an engine chimney wasto be seen from the house, which overlooked TresambleCommon, then an unenclosed… … COSG-AKNE HODSE. By this time the old Newcomen engines had beenalmost completely superseded, only one of that construc-tion remaining at work in the whole county of Cornwall.The prospects of the engine business were, indeed, sopromising, that Boulton even contemplated retiring alto-gether from his…
