| Description | Docketed “Enclosing Mr. Motteux’s letter and the questions put to Capt. Martin.”
Summarised “Copper boiler flues never want cleaning on the outside. Smiths’ work to be got at any price. Pool boiler to be a Bouge boiler. Captain Lye in respect to depths. Watt’s principle on shorter lever at pump end considered impractical. Proprietors’ printed forms to be filled up by an agent. Racks to be of wrought iron [?] and teeth milled out. Concerning the powers of engines.” |