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 422
st of various other important avocations, andat enormous expense,— for which, at the time, he couldhave had no certainty of an adequate return,—we shallbe at a loss whether most to admire his ingenuity, hisperseverance, or his munificence. He has conductedthe whole more like a sovereign than a… … K OJb JHB SOHO MUsl, NOW KEMOViilU. 400 PKOSPERITY OF SOHO. Chap. XX. CHAPTEE XX. Prosperity of Soho—Young Boulton and Watt—The Kiots—William Murdock. The steam-engine had now become firmly establisliedas a working power. Beginning as a water pnmperfor miners, it had gradnally been appHed to drive…
