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)
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brother to mygrandfather. Tlie late ServingtonSavery, M.D., of Marlborough, wasone of my family, viz., a brother tomy deceased father. Chap. III. SAVERYS EARLY INVENTIONS. 41 his early life, beyond that he was educated to the pro-fession of a military engineer, and in course of time dnlyreached the… … THOMAS SAVERY, F.K.S. pursuit of his profession, as well as his natural disposi-tion, led Savery to the study of mechanics, and he be-came well accomplished in the physical knowledge of histime. He occupied much of his spare time in mechanicalexperiments, and in j)rojecting and executing…
