M.

MEASON, Mr., Wanlockhead, 435–6.

MEDALS struck at Soho Mint, 395–7.

MICROMETER, prismatic, 152.

MILLER, Mr., of Dalswinton, propels boats by paddle-wheels, 437; employs Symington to make an engine for steamboat, 439; its trial, 442; orders a second engine, 443; another trial, applies to Boulton and Watt, 444; their reply, 445.

MINES, UNITED DISTRICT, Cornwall, 231.

MINT, Soho, 390, 396, 400.

MINT, Tower Hill, fitted up by Boulton, 398–9.

MINTS, foreign, fitted up by Boulton, 389.

MONKLAND CANAL,--Watt, engineer, 153–4, 194.

MORLAND, Sir SAMUEL,--his fire-engine, 29; his poverty and blindness, his death, 30.

MURDOCK, WILLIAM, employed by Boulton and Watt, 253; his character, early days, and antecedents, 254; his interview with Boulton, the wooden hat, and his engagement, 255; sent to Cornwall, interest in his work, 256; how he dealt with the bullies, fights a duel with Captain Trevithick, 257; invents sun-and-planet motion, 309; his value and merits, 311–12, 337–8, 361; presented with an acknowledgment, 312; his popularity in Cornwall, 313; testimony of Boulton to his worth, 321; makes a model locomotive, 336–435; puts Albion Mill engine to rights, 356; at Soho, 400; his loyalty and usefulness to the firm, 422; his inventions, 423, 430–32; the D slide valve, lighting by gas, 424–28; his steam-gun, engine cement, 431; obtains the Rumford gold medal, 425; Mr. Fairbairn’s opinion of him, 431–3; his death, 433.

N.

‘NAUTILUS,’ the infernal machine, by Fulton, 452.

NEWCOMEN, THOS., of Dartmouth, 59; his house, 60; his family and character, 61; his improvements on the fire-engine, 62–70; correspondence with Dr. Hooke, 62; Newcomen engine described, 63–68; he erects colliery engines, 68; supplies pumping-engines for Cornwall, 69, 71, 74–5; his obscure end, 72.

NEWCOMEN ENGINES, increased use of for pumping, 74–75; they are superseded, 275.

NEWCOMEN MODEL at Glasgow University, 119–21.

O.

“OLD BESS” engine, Soho, 250, 326.

P.

PAPIN, Dr. D.,--preference for gunpowder to steam, 5; a French refugee, 31; Curator Royal Society, his digester, inventor of the safety-valve, 32; proceeds to Germany, his experiments on water and steam, 33–35; his steam-boat, 37; his misfortunes and death, 38.

PARALLEL MOTION patented by Watt, 333–4.

PATENT-RIGHT, attacks and defence, Watt on patent-right, 280–1, 295, 303; combination against, 347; Watt, junr., vindicates rights, 418.

PICKARD, JAMES, steals Watt’s crank motion, 289.

PITT, WILLIAM,--BOULTON, and his commercial policy, 342–6; coinage projects, 388, 393.

PORT GLASGOW piers, by Watt, 156.

POTTER, HUMPHREY,--his invention of the “Scoggan,” 66.

PRIESTLEY, Dr., of Birmingham and the Lunar Society, 369; his gifts, 370–72; Boulton’s association with him, 373; meeting of the Lunar Society, 409; his sympathy with its French revolutionists, 410; the new meeting-house and his house at Fairhill burnt by a mob, 411; grievous loss of his books, MSS., and apparatus, 412; his death, 466.

PUMPING-ENGINES. _See_ Cornish Pumping-engines.

Q.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE and BOULTON, 174–5.

R.

RADSTOKE, Bristol, Hornblowers’ Engine, 322–3.

RAGLAN CASTLE, 10–12, 26.

REDRUTH, Cornwall, 237–8.

RENNIE, JOHN, engineer, Albion Mill, 354.

REYNOLDS, Mr., of Ketley, has Watt’s first rotary engine, 327.

ROBINSON FAMILY, The, 166.

ROBISON, Professor,--his intercourse with Watt, 113–14; his voyagings, his estimate of Watt, 115–16, 118, 121, 130–31; idea of a locomotive, 336; incident in class on his return from Watt’s patent trial, 463–4; his death, 472–3.

ROEBUCK, Dr.,--Carron Works and coal mining adventures, 138; correspondence with Watt, 139; terms of partnership with Watt, 141; his house at Kinneil, 142; his embarrassments, 150; his patent for alkali manufacture, 152; his ruin, 158; correspondence with Boulton, 185, 189, 192; arrangement to transfer his share in Watt’s engine to Boulton, 190; his share transferred, 195–7, 204.

ROTARY MOTION, 286; Watt employs the crank, 287; the invention stolen, 289, 293, 299–301, 309–10, 319, 325–7.

RUSSIA, Empress of, visit to Boulton, 216.

S.

SAVERY, CAPTAIN THOMAS, his family, 40; early life, study of mechanics, 41; his clocks, machine for polishing plate glass, his paddle boat, 42, 43; opposed by the Navy Board, 43; his “Navigation Improved,” 42, 44; his paddle yacht on the Thames, 44; his fire-engine, 48–54; his ‘Miner’s Friend,’ 50, 52; his engines used in Cornwall, 55; failures of engines, 56, 57; his later years, death, and will, 58.

SCHIMMELPENNINCK, Mrs., descriptions of meetings of Lunar Society, &c., 408–9; on Watt’s character, 503.

SCOTT, Sir W., on gas-lighting, 429, 431; opinion of Boulton, 459; of Watt, 501–4.

SCREW-PROPELLER suggested by Watt, 192.

SHELBURNE, LORD, opinion of Boulton, 171.

SIMSON, PROFESSOR, Glasgow, 112–15.

SMALL, Dr., birth and parentage, 145; correspondence with Watt, 146–7, 150–51; correspondence, 186–198; his attainments, 201; his death, 208.

SMEATON, JAMES, engineer, attracted by the atmospheric engine, 68; improvements on Newcomen’s engine, 76; adverse opinion of Watt’s engine, 202; improves York buildings engine, 217, 226, 292, 511.

SOHO, Birmingham, its situation and cost of building, 167–70; its varied manufactures, 176; its distinguished visitors, 176, 180–1; extent of capital and trade, 177, 180; persons employed and machinery, 179–80; Watt’s first visit, 185; brisk engine trade, 348, 361; workmen tempted to leave, 227; training of workmen, 228; Prussian spies, 250; loss by painting business, 264; letter-copying machine business, 265–8, 349; steam corn-mill at, 325; the mint at, 390, 396–99; illuminated with gas, 427.

SOHO pictures, the, 264.

SORBIÈRE, M., on Marquis of Worcester’s inventions, 18–20.

SPEAKING-TRUMPET invented by Sir S. Morland, 29.

STEAM and paddle boats. _See_ Bell, Henry, 453; Fulton, 449–52; Garay, 35, 36; Hulls, 72–74; Miller, 437–45; Papin, 37; Savery, 37, 42–44; Symington, 435–49.

STEAM and fire engines, improvers of, and alleged inventors, 75–76; _see also_ pp. 6; Branca, 7; Caus de, and Worcester, Marquis of, 9–26; Morland, 29; Savery, 49–54, 59; Newcomen, 63; _also index entries_, Boulton, Matthew, and Watt, James; possible defects, 224; Watt’s single acting pumping engine, 236.

STEAM FLOUR-MILLS, 291, 325–6, 327.

STEAM-GUN suggested by Murdock, 431.

STEAM HAMMER, Watt’s, 300.

STEAM, its employment by the ancients, its enormous power, 5.

STOCKDALE, Mr., of Carke, visited by Boulton and Watt, 419; describes a visit to Watt, 505.

STRATFORD-LE-BOW ENGINE, 217, 223–6, 369.

STRATHMORE CANAL surveyed by Watt, 155.

“SUN AND PLANET” motion, 309.

SYCAMORE HILL, Handsworth, Murdock’s residence, 254.

SYMINGTON, WILLIAM, of Wanlockhead,--his model locomotive, 435–6; matriculates at Edinburgh University, projects steamboat for canals, 436–7; joins Mr. Miller in constructing a steamboat, 439; his first steamboat engine, 441; its trial, 442; makes a second engine for Mr. Miller, 443; another trial, 444; fits up the ‘Charlotte Dundas,’ his adversity and death, 449.

T.

TELESCOPE FOR MEASURING DISTANCES, invention of Watt, 151.

TILT-HAMMER worked by steam, patent by Watt, 301, 325, 333.

TOBACCO TRADE, Glasgow, 98–9.

TREVITHICK, Captain, Watt’s altercation with, 257; Murdock fights a duel with, 257, 259, 296.

TUBULAR BOILERS made by Boulton, 282–3.

U.

UNITED MINES, Cornwall, map, 231, 261, 275.