Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss.

CHAPTER I.

DAWNINGS OF STEAM POWER--THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

When Matthew Boulton entered into partnership with James Watt, he gave up the ormolu business in which he had before been principally engaged. He had been accustomed to supply George III. with articles of this manufacture, but ceased to wait upon the King for orders after embarking in his new enterprise. Some time a...