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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 91

An illustration from 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, leaf 91
d in the very largeC|nantity of coal that it consumed and the heavy cost ofmaintaining it in working order. There was a greatwaste, especially in boilers, the making of which wasthen ill understood. Smeaton relates that in the courseof four years working of the first Austhorpe engine, notfewer than… … RUINS OF WHEAL lORTDISlE [ By fl. P Leiich.J to Truro a clear sum of ten thousand pounds. Theengine-house is now in ruins, and presents a highlypicturesque appearance, as seen from the heights ofTrewal, reminding one of a Border Peel rather thanof a mining engine-house. Anotlier of Ncwcomens…

Boulton, Matthew, 1728-1809 · Watt, James, 1736-1819 · Steam-engines

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