About the same time,' 336, 340, 342. 'ACADÉMIE des Sciences, 1', papers of Lavoisier, Meusnier, and Monge in. (See WATER, COMPOSITION OF.)
'ACID of sea-salt,' 'dephlogisticated,' 386. 'ACTA Eruditorum Lipsiæ,' 133; translation of Papin's Memoir in, 136-142.
ADAMS, George, advertisement of perspective instrument, 55; apparent piracy of Mr. Watt's invention, ib.
ADMIRALTY College, of Russia, 395. ADVOCATES of Cavendish, their assertions, 345, 357; shown to be groundless, 345357, 357-361.
EOLIPILES, 107-109. AGALMOTOPOIA, 456.
AGATHIAS, History of Justinian, 109.
AIR, compressed, its applications by Murdock, 415.
AMIENS, Peace of, 414, 468.
AMMONIACAL liquor, 294.
AMONTONS, M., his fire-wheel,' 155.
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian, on Marion de l'Orme's letter, 126.
ANDERSON, Professor John, 65, 92, 93; Mr. Watt's gift to him of prismatic micrometer, 226.
ANDERSONIAN Institution in Glasgow, the, 92. A new hare,' 289, 471.
ANGLO-SAXON, Mr. Watt's study of, 477. ANTHEMIUS, his use of steam, 109. 'ANTHROPOPHAGI,'' of London,' 403. ARABIAN, 275.
ARAGO, M., commentary on Mrs. Campbell's anecdote, 21; brief extract from Robison's narrative, 58; panegyric on De Caus, 111; on Papin, 132; criticism on Savery, 149; account of Soho, and of Mr. Boulton, 168; on invention of micrometer with moveable object-glass, 222; on Mr. Watt's grief at the loss of his first wife, 235; character of second Mrs. Watt, 254; on discovery of composition of water, 357, &c.; his copy of Papin's Recueil,' 525-526.
ARGAND, Mr., Mr. Watt's letters to, on lamps, 451.
ARISTOTLE, Small bust of, 455.
ARITHMETICAL machine, contemplated by Mr. Watt, 452, 453.
ARMADA, Spanish, bullets of, 492. ARNAL, the Abbe, 424.
ARN'S Well, in Green of Glasgow, 82. ARTICULATED water-pipe for Glasgow Wa- ter-works, 453, 454. ARTIFICIAL alabaster, 455.
ARTS, Society of, in 1778, 225.
ART-UNION (of London), medal in honour of Chantrey, and of the monument to Watt, 522.
BAROMETER, new, by Dr. Small, 222, 223;
BATAVIAN Society, Mr. Watt a member of,
BATE, glyptic machine, 465. BATH, Dr. Townsend, of, 427. BATTERING-RAMS, 285.
BEAM, great, of engine, introduced by New- comen, 151; with toothed sector, to pro- duce a rotative motion, 274, 283; equalising, 280, 281; with parallel motion, 289-290. BEAUFORT MSS., the, concerning Lord Wor- cester, 116, 117.
BEDDOES, Dr., 417; his death, 503. BEECHEY, Sir William, portrait of Mr. Watt, 517.
BEIGHTON, Henry, his engine, eduction-pipe
in, 69; improved the details of Newcomen's engine, 151, 153.
BELIDOR, account of the steam-engine, 2, 67, 75, 83; mistakes Papin's claim, 134; quotes his admission of Savery's originality, 145; preference of Savery's engine, 148; account of machine of Marly, 261, 384. BELL, Mr. Geo., 502.
BION on Mathematical Instruments, 39; translated by Stone, 39, 40. BIRMINGHAM, first visited by Mr. Watt,
168; false coining in, 169; visited by Roebuck, 188; Mr. Watt's residence at, 262; Wasborough's mill at, 275; ‘a re- 'gion of rare talents,' 304; visited by Cavendish, 371; Priestley's settlement at, 378; riots at, 381, 382; newspaper ac- count of robbery at Soho, 406. BLACK, Dr., organ built by Mr. Watt for, 46-48; acquaintance with Mr. Watt, 58; testimony to his abilities, originality, and modesty, 58, 59, 355, 484; dates of his discoveries, 303, 304, note; contrasted with Priestley, 304, 305; his death, 501- 503; his affluence, and disposal of his for- tune, 176, 503.
BLACKFRIARS Bridge, 282. BLAGDEN, Dr., afterwards Sir Charles, (see PARIS, and WATER, COMPOSITION OF); pursuit of Madame Lavoisier, 499. BLOOMFIELD engine, 258.
BOILER of Savery's engine, 145, 151; of
BO'NESS, 173, 178. (See BORROWSTONESS.) BORDENTOWN in America, 424.
BORINGS, iron, or filings, 294, 295. BORROWSTONESS, 158, 160. (See BO'NESS.) BOSSUT mistakes Papin's claim, 134. BOSWELL, visits Soho, 258; character of Mr. Boulton, 259.
'BOTANIC Garden,' Darwin's, quotation from, 380.
BOULTON, Matthew, plate-manufactory and
mint at Soho, 168, 169; Trafalgar medal, ib.; purchase of Dr. Roebuck's share of steam-engine patent, 190, 191, 237, 238; 279, 281, 297, 298; Mr. Watt's letters to, on nature of steam and water, 320, &c.; his death, 503; notice of him by Boswell, 259; by Mr. Watt, 503; by Mrs. Schim- mel Penninck, ib.; buried in Handsworth church, 506.
BOULTON, Matthew Robinson, anecdote of Smeaton and Soho machinery, 249, 250; management of the Soho business, 390, 404; new partnership, 404; capture of rob- bers at Soho, 406-409. BOULTON, Matthew Piers Watt, Cambridge Latin prize epigram, ⚫ Vehicula vi vaporis impulsa,' 449; translated, 449, 450 ; por- trait of Watt by Lawrence, 519. BOULTON and Watt, formation of original partnership of, 249; heads of articles of copartnership, 252, 253; employ Mr. Peter Ewart, 283, Mr. Murdock, 412-414; law- suits with pirates of new engine, ‘B. and W.
BOYLE, Robert, air-pump, improved by Hooke, 128. BRADLEY, 286.
BRAMAH, Joseph, 89, 400-402. BRANCA, 'Le Machine,' 108. BREADALBANE, Earl of, 205. BRECONSHIRE, Mr. Watt's estates in, 470. BREWSTER, Sir David, invents micrometer with moveable object-glass, 227; admits priority of La Hire and Mr. Watt, 227, 228; improvements on their instruments, ib.; opinion as to Mr. Watt's priority, 365; his candour, 366; edition of Robison's
'Mechanical Philosophy,' 481, note; letter to him from Mr. Watt, 481-487.
BRIDGE, Blackfriars, 282.
BRIDGEWATER, Duke of, 425, BRINDLEY, 166. BRISTOL, 417.
BRITANNIA Bridge, across the Menai Strait, 493.
BRITTANY, 260.
BROSELEY in Shropshire, 246.
BROUGHAM, Lord, notice of Dr. W. Small, 244; of Dr. Black's discovery of Latent Heat, 303, note; of Cavendish's experiments, 312, 531-541; opinion as to Mr. Watt's priority, 357, 531-541; Natural Theo- logy,' quoted, 360; amendment of patent laws, 390; notice of Mr. Watt, 500; Historical Note on the Discovery of the Composition of Water,' 531-541. BROWN, Mr. Alexander, conversation with Robison on discovery of the separate con- denser, 68.
Mr. James, 412, note. BROWNE'S, Sir William, gold medal, 448; gained by M. P. W. Boulton, ib.; the prize composition, 449.
BUCHANAN, George, birthplace of, 23. BUCQUET, 338.
BUCRETIUS of Vratislau, 341, note.
BULL, Mr., a stoker,' 391; Boulton and Watt v., ib., 403.
BULLER, Mr. Justice, 391-392. BURGUNDY, 386.
BURKE, Edmund, opposes renewal of patent, 241; his motives, ib.; criticism of Dr. Johnson, 477; denunciation of Messrs. J. Watt, jun., and Cooper, 479. 'BURLEY,' Claver'se and,' 496. BURNET, Colonel, 501.
BURNS, his call to be a bard, 32; quotations from, 7, note, 507.
James Watt, 18, 19; of his youthful pur- suits, talents, and dispositions, 20-24. CAMPBELL, Thomas, visit to Kinneil, 158; notice of Mr. Watt, 499, 500; poem on the Steam-engine, ib.
CAMPBELLTOWN, survey for canal to, 208. CAMPER, Professor Peter, 371, and note. CANAL to connect Forth and Clyde, 167; Monkland, planned and constructed by Mr. Watt, 197-202; from Perth to Cupar of Angus, survey for, 204-206; suggestion of, in Strathearn, 205, 206; Borrowstoness, survey for, 208; Crinan and Tarbert, ib.; Macrihanish Bay to Campbelltown, ib.; Hurlet to Paisley, ib.; Caledonian, 208- 215; Forth and Clyde, steam-boat tried on, 425.
CARBONIC acid gas, Black's discovery of, 303.
CARRON Ironworks, 158-160; passage for Forth and Clyde Canal, 167; boring-mills for cannon and cylinders, 240; steam engine constructed at, for a boat, in 1789, 424. CARRONADES, 159, ib. note.
CARTSBURN, barony of, 4.
CARTSDYKE, (or Crawfordsdyke), burgh of barony, 4; described by Hamilton of Wishaw, 5; population of, 6; 'jetty' of,
CASSEL, machine of, 147; edition of Papin's Recueil' printed at, 133, 134, 525, 526, CASSIGRAINIAN telescope, converted into a micrometer, 228.
CAUS. (See DE CAUS.)
CAVALLO and Winch, mode of forming caoutchouc tubes, 452,
CAVENDISH'S, Mr., dinner and conversation at, 371, 372. (See WATER, COMPOSITION OF.)
'Cavendish, the illustrious house of,' 332, CAWLEY, John, improved Savery's engine, 150; associated with Savery and New- comen in patent, ib.
CEMENT, for joints of engines, 294, 295; for hardening plaster patterns for sculpture machine, 461, 462, note.
CENOTAPH to Dr. W. Small, 246-249. CENTRES, combinations of motions round, 288, 289.
CENTRIFUGAL principle of Governor, 291, 292; force, regulator by, ib. CHACEWATER mine, 266. CHANTREY, Sir Francis, an angler, 26; bust of Murdock, 415; trial of steam-naviga- tion, 430, note; works of, 465; statues and busts of Watt, 419, 521-523; casts of ditto, 522; copies of ditto, in ivory, by Cheverton, 522, 523; medal of, struck for Art Union, obverse, 522, note; reverse,
'CHARIOT,' 'fiery,' of Mr. Watt's invention, 434.
CHARITABLE acts, 419, 420.
CHARLES, Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, 147. CHEMISTRY, Mr. Watt's study of, 22, 302. CHEVERTON, his works in ivory, 465, 522, 523.
CHINA closet, Mrs. Watt in her, 473. CHINESE, 275.
Church and King,' watch-word of Birming- ham mob in 1791, 382, 477. CICERO, on old age, 505.
CINQ Mars, d'Effiat, letter to him from Ma- rion de l'Orme, 123-125; shown to be a fabrication, 125, 126; victims to the hoax, 126, 127.
CIRCULAR engine, or steam wheel, 435. CLAPTON, Priestley's retirement to, 382. CLARK, Report on channel of Clyde, 206. CLARKE, Mr., 274.
'CLAVER'SE and Burley,' 496. CLEISHBOTHAM, Jedediah, 496.
'CLERKS,' The Three,' quotation from, 264.
'CLERMONT,'' the,' 427. CLIFTON, 417.
CLOCK, moved by a steam-engine, 292. CLOCKS, various, invented by Dr. Small, 217-219.
CLOCKWORK, of Counter, 290.
CLUB, the Watt, of Greenock, 11; Glasgow University, or Philosophical, 304; of Royal Society, 371-374; an academic,' 373; of the Jacobins, 479.
CLUTTERBUCK, Captain, 496. CLYDE, Frith of, 5, 11, 12.
―, bridge over, at Hamilton, 206; Report on channel of, ib.; immense improve- ment of its navigation, 206, 207; and in- crease of its shipping, 207, 208. COCHRANE, Mr., 296.
COLERIDGE, remark on a steam-engine, 2; quotation from, 497.
COLLAS, glyptic machine, 465.
COMBUSTION of gases by the electric spark,
306-307, 308 note, 309, 310, 321-323, 379.
'COMET,'' the,' steamer on the Clyde, 428. COMMON Pleas, Court of, 391, 393. COMMONS, House of, in 1767, Mr. Watt's opinion of, 167.
COMPOSITION, of water, (see WATER); of light, 370.
CONCLUSIONS, of Mr. Watt as to composition
of water, 323-324; of Cavendish, 312- 315; of Lavoisier, 316, 317; of Monge, 316,318. (See WATER, COMPOSITION OF.)
CONDENSATION of steam, anecdote of Watt's early observation of, 21.
CONDENSER, separate, discovery of, 59, 68, 79, 88, 287, 401.
CONFIGURATION, crystalline, of bodies, 315. CONSTITUENTS, ponderable, of bodies, 315. CONSUMPTION of smoke, Patent for, 298- 300.
COOPER, Thomas, his sympathics with French revolutionists, 478, 479; Burke's denun- ciation of him, ib.
COPARTNERSHIP, original, of Boulton and Watt, 249; renewed by sons, 404, 406. COPLEY medal, Priestley's, 305. COPYING-MACHINE for letters and drawings, 267-272; either by rolling-press or screw- press, 271; portable form of it, 272; pro- cess of, 270, 271; utility of, 271. CORNEILLE, 374.
CORNISH mines, 264; miners, 290. CORNWALL, engines wanted in, 250, 251; amusing description of one of the first erected in, 263.
COSTELLO, Miss Louisa Stuart, letter of Ma- rion de l'Orme published by her, 123- 125; a fabrication, 125, 126; victims of the hoax, 126, 127. COSTS, bill of, 389.
COUNTER, the, invented by Mr. Watt, 290; its construction, ib.
COURT of Common Pleas, 391, 393. CRABTREE, corresponds with Gascoigne and Horrockes on invention of micrometer, 230.
CRAIG, John, Mr. Watt's partnership with, 44, 45; his death, 45.
CRANK, piracy of its application, 273, 276; its true inventor, 275; its advantages, 277.
CRAWFORDSDYKE, (or Cartsdyke), burgh of barony, 4; shipping of, in 1700, ib. CREIGHTONS, the two, 411.
CRELL, Dr. Lorenz, Chemische Annalen," 336, note; Blagden's letter to, 336-338. CRONSTADT, 395.
CROY LECKIE, an estate of Mr. John Muir- heid, 16.
CRYSTALLINE configuration of bodies, 315. CULLEN, Dr., his experiments on boiling of water, 76, 84; in vacuo, 485.
CUMMING, Alexander, F.R.S., his works, and musical mechanism, 47; evidence given by, 691, 400.
CUMNOCK, Old, 412.
CUNNINGHAM, Allan, 407.
CUPAR of Angus, survey for canal from Perth to, 204-206. CUSTINE, Marquis de, 385.
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