| Description | Summarised “Wheal Chance and Geary adventurers unable to pay the engine charges. Capt. M. Ferris objected to as a purser. Suggests Murdock to have the entire government of engines and engine men. Richard Michell invents a cock to supply the cylinder with grease, so that the piston requires examining only weekly. Murdock accused of removing it, because it hurt the expansion of steam when engine lightly loaded – this causes unpleasantness.” |