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The Origins of James Watt’s Perfect Engine

Richard L. HILLSRead at the Science Museum, London, on 8 January 1997
Pages 85-107 | Published online: 01 Feb 2014

NOTES AND REFERENCES

  • S. Smiles, Lives of the Engineers, The Steam Engine, Boulton & Watt, p. 68 and J. P. Muirhead, The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical (J. Murray, London, 1854), Vol I, p. lxvii.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p. lxix.
  • Boulton & Watt Collection, Birmingham Central Library, MI11/3/1, Waste 1763, entries for 15 & 31 May 1758 et al.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p. bdx.
  • ibid, Vol I, p. xlvii and xlix.
  • ibid, Vol I, p. lix.
  • B. & W. Col., MI11/3/1. Waste Book, 27 January 1758. (J. Murray, London, 1878), Inventions of James Watt, Book, 3 January 1757—May
  • Patent 895, 30 June 1768.
  • James Watt Papers, Birmingham Central Library, JWP 4/32. 38, 23 August 1765, to Dr. J. Roebuck.
  • JWP C1/15, 4 September 1765, to J. Lind.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p.
  • ibid, Vol I, p. lxix.
  • J. P. Muirhead, The Life of James Watt with Selections from his Correspondence, (J. Murray, London, 1858), P. 59.
  • ibid, p. 67.
  • H. W. Dickinson, James Watt, Craftsman & Engineer, (Cambridge University Press, 1935), p. 43 and JWP 4/32.36, 2 October, 1765, to J. Roebuck.
  • H. W. Dickinson, Sir Samuel Morland, Diplomat and Inventor, 1625–1695, (Newcomen Society, W. Hefter & Sons Ltd, Cambridge, 1970), p. 76.
  • J. T. Desaguliers, "An Attempt to solve the Phenomena of the Rise of Vapours, Formation of Clouds, and Descent of Rain", Philosophical Transactions, Vol 36 (1729–30, No 407), p. 16.
  • E. Robinson & D. McKie, Ed., Partners in Science, The Letters of James Watt & Joseph Black, (J. Constable, London, 1970), p. 437. The whole note book is transcribed on pages 432–479.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p. lxix.
  • J. T. Desaguliers, A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 3 edn., (London, 1743), Vol II, P. 536.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p. lxix.
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  • Robinson & McKie, (1970), p. 438.
  • Muirhead, (1858), p. 84.
  • Robinson & McKie, (1970), P. 440.
  • Muirhead, (1854), P. lxxxv.
  • Robinson & McKie, (1970), pp. 439 & 436.
  • ibid, p. 439.
  • Dickinson, (1935), p. 35.
  • H. Guerlack, "Joseph Black's Work on Heat" in Joseph Black, 1728–1799, A Commemorative Symposium, Ed. A. D. C. Simpson, (Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 1982), P. 19.
  • Muirhead, (1858), pp. 87–8.
  • H. W. Dickinson & R. Jenkins, James Watt and the Steam Engine, (1927, reprint Moorland, Ashboume, 1981), p. 23.
  • JWP C1/15, 29 April 1765, to J. Lind, but see Dickinson & Jenkins, (1927), where May is given incor-rectly.
  • JWP 4/32.31, 5 December 1765, to J. Roebuck. Earlier dates for Craig's death have been given incor-rectly.
  • JAW' 4/32.38, 20 April 1766, to J. Roebuck.
  • Smiles, (1878), pp. 86 and 88.
  • JWP 4/32.20, 10 February 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.22, 9 November 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.17, 2 April 1769 & JWP 4/32.16, 1 May 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • Boulton Papers, Birmingham Central Library, 348.11, 20 September 1769, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32/8, 8 April 1770, to J. Roebuck.
  • B. & W. Col., MI/1/15, 13 June 1770.
  • Scottish Record Office, Carron Company Papers, GD58/2/3/1, June 1770, p. 89.
  • B. & W. Col., MI/1/20, 17–21 May 1773 and Boulton 348.31. 20 May 1773, to W. Small.
  • B. & W. Col., MI/1/21, 31 May 1774.
  • Muirhead, (1858), p. 70.
  • ibid, p. 73.
  • Dickinson & Jenkins, (1927), P. 96.
  • JWP 4/32.18, 16 March 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 6/19.22, 24 April 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p. lxxvi.
  • JWP 4/32.12, 16 October 1765, to J. Roebuck.
  • B. & W. Col., MI/1/14, no date.
  • JWP 4/32.39, 24 May 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.25, 15 April 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.19, 14 March and JWP 4/32.18, 16 March 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.18, 16 March 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • Boulton 348.8, 28 April 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.11, 20 September 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348. 6, March 1769, to W. Small.
  • Dickinson & Jenkins, (1927), p. 108.
  • JWP 6/19.21, 26 January 1775 and JWP 6/19.22, 24 April 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • JWP 6/19. 6, May 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • Boulton 348.16, 31 January 1770, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32.33, 18 November 1765 and JWP 4/32.10, 29 April 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • Patent 913, 5 January 1769.
  • JWP 4/32.18, 16 March 1769, to J. Roebuck and Boulton 348. 6, March 1769, to W. Small.
  • Smiles, (1878), p. 86.
  • Muirhead, (1854), Vol I, p. lxxvi.
  • Boulton 348.15, 3 January 1770, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.19, 16 March 1770, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32.31, 5 December 1765, to J. Roebuck.
  • Boulton 348.4, 28 January 1769, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32.9, 10 May 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.17, 28 April 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • Boulton 348.13, 13 November 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.15, 3 January 1770, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.18, 10 March 1770, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.19, 16 March 1770, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32.8, 8 April 1770, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 6/19. 4, June 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • MP 6/19. 3, June 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • JWP 4/20.19, 2 November 1775, from G. Hamilton; see also JWP 4/20.22, 10 November 1775, from G. Hamilton.
  • B. & W. Col., M11/4/9.72, 5 February 1778, from J. Smeaton.
  • National Library of Scotland, Rennie Papers, Ms. 19825.vi, "Remarks by J. Watt upon the Specification of his Patent", no date.
  • JWP 4/32.31, 5 December 1765, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.10, 29 April 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • ibid.
  • JWP 4/32.18, 16 March 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • Boulton 348.5, 22 February 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.11, 20 September 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.5, 22 April 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348. 7, April 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.9, 28 May 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.10, 5 July 1769, to W. Small.
  • JWP 6/19/3, June 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • Boulton 348.52, 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • Boulton 348.4, 28 January 1769, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32.35, 11 October 1765, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.10, 29 April 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.9, 10 May 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • B. & W. Col., MI/1/20, 23 August 1773, 27 February-9 March 1774 and MI/2/8.
  • JWP C1/15, 29 April 1765, to J. Lind.
  • JWP 4/32.12, 16 October 1765, to J. Roebuck.
  • Boulton 348.11, 20 September 1769, to W. Small.
  • Boulton 348.17, 10 March 1770, to W. Small.
  • JWP 4/32.4, 19 April 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.9, 24 May 1768, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 4/32.18, 16 March 1769, to J. Roebuck.
  • JWP 6/19. 4, June 1775, from M. Boulton.
  • Boulton 348.52, 1775, from M. Boulton.

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