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 479
of a highway upon the land. But it is anoteworthy fact, that it was not until the invention ofJames Watt was applied to the purposes of steamnavigation that its practicability was established andits success secured. Until then, all the experimentswhich had been made were regarded as… … WATTS HOUSE, HEATHFIELD. [ By Percival Skeltoa.] CHAP^EE XXII. Declining Years of Boulton and Watt — Bereavements —Gregory Watt — Death of Boulton. Ox the dissolution of the original partnership betweenBoulton and Watt at the expiry of the patent in 1800,Boulton was seventy-two years old, and Watt…
