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 329
alf the praise they would otherwise get did theybut tell us what they discreetly blot. We must publisha book of blots. Meanwhile Watt went on inventing, even while hewas complaining of his inability to invent, and of theuselessness of inventing. Invention had grown into ahabit with him, which he… … ULD ENGINE-HOCSE AT DALCOATH. [By R. P. Leitcli.] nicated to Boiilton that lie had contrived a machine, thenerecting at Dalcoath, for the purpose of stopping theengine when at full speed, when any accident happenedto the rods or outside chains,—first taking away thepower, and then holding the bob…
