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Lives of Boulton and Watt

by Samuel Smiles

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Beginnings of the Steam-Engine: The Early Inventors
  4. 4Chapter II — Sir Samuel Morland — Dr. Dionysius Papin
  5. 5Chapter III — Captain Savery — His Fire-engine
  6. 6Chapter IV — Thomas Newcomen — The Atmospheric Engine
  7. 7James Watt: His Boyhood and Early Life: Mechanical Instrument Maker…
  8. 8Chapter VI — James Watt, Mathematical Instrument Maker
  9. 9Chapter VII — Watt’s Experiments on Steam — Invents the Separate Co…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Watt’s Connexion With Dr. Roebuck — Watt Acts as Sur…
  11. 11Boulton and Watt, Engineers, Birmingham
  12. 12Chapter X — Boulton and the Steam Engine — Correspondence With Watt
  13. 13Chapter XI — Boulton and Watt — Their Partnership
  14. 14Chapter XII — Boulton and Watt Begin the Manufacture of Steam-engines
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Watt in Cornwall — Introduction of His Pumping-engines
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Financial Difficulties — Boulton in Cornwall — Attack…
  17. 17Chapter XV — Watt Again Visits Cornwall — Invention of the Rotary M…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — More Difficulties and More Inventions — Boulton Again…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Commercial Politics — The Albion Mills — Riots in Co…
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Friends of Boulton and Watt — The Lunar Society
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Boulton’s Application of the Steam-engine to Coining
  22. 22Chapter XX — Prosperity of Soho — Young Boulton and Watt — The Riot…
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Application of Steam-power to Navigation — Miller and…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Declining Years of Boulton and Watt — Bereavements —…
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Closing Years of James Watt — His Death — Conclusion

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