Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss.
Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine
Lives of Boulton and Watt, published in 1865 by Samuel Smiles, the author of Self-Help, tells the story of the steam engine and of the partnership that made it a working industrial machine. Smiles begins with the early experimenters, the Marquis of Worcester, Papin, Savery and Newcomen, then follows James Watt from his boyhood and his trade as an instrument maker to the invention of the separate condenser. Matthew Boulton, the Birmingham manufacturer, brings capital and energy, and the book covers their engines in the Cornish mines, the Lunar Society, coining machinery and the first steamboats, drawing on the original papers kept at Soho. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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