| Description | Designs by William Murdock and Matthew Boulton, Atmospheric and Other Engines, Drawings for Court Cases (7 items).
1354e. Set of Engine Drawings by "J. M." Jun.-Aug. 1813. 7 items.
[1st and 2nd drawings missing.]
Elevations of cylinders and pumps, marked "3rd J.M. Jun. 1813".
Side view and plan of the cylinders of a compound (Hornblower?) engine marked "4th J.M. July 2 1813".
Side view of a 10 horse independent crank engine marked "M 5th horrid".
Side view of a 6 horse bell crank engine marked "M 6th bad".
Horizontal section of the cistern and plan of a 6 horse bell crank engine marked "Bad M 7th".
Side view and plan of an independent crank engine and boiler marked "8th M".
[9th drawing missing.]
Front view of a crank engine and 2 boilers and edge view of the rotative motion marked "M 10th".
[All these drawings are coloured.]
Set of drawings of various types of engines made in 1813. "J. M." may have been James Watt's nephew James Miller, who joined the Boulton Watt & Co. Drawing Office in 1813. Miller was taken ill early in 1815 and went to Madeira, where he died in May of the same year. |