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 394
d of their cowardice! I would tell you the principle of it, but that I am afraid it would set your superior ingenuity to improve upon it for the use of their enemies. From Boultons memoranda-books we find that the subject of improved artillery had occu])ied his attention some ten years l)(fo|-(.… … DB, PRIESTLEY. hopeful, and buoyant; possessed of a most juvenile tem-perament ; happiest when fullest of work; ranging fromsubject to subject with extraordinary versatility; layingaside metaphysics to pursue experiments in electricity,next taking up history and politics, and resting fromthese to…
