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 92
ruro 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 engines was erected aboutthe same time at the Wheal… … Cyrus Redding, one of Horn-blowers descendants, says, liow he became in any wayconnected with Newcomenmust have arisen from thelatter being at Bromsgrove,when he visited Mr. Potter,who got him to build oneof his newly - invented en-gines at Wolverhampton inpoi/^.ooTH. 1712.^ Another engine was…
