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Ref NoMS 3219/4/1/5/3/16
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/40/16
TitleLetter. John Roebuck (Edinburgh) to James Watt (Glasgow; c/o Gilbert Hamilton).
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Date16 September 1798
Description[Docket reads 15 September 1798]. [His finances. Legal matters. He wishes to see Watt. His paper on experiments with blowing furnaces has been read to the Royal Society in Edinburgh.‘Dr Black tells me he heard from Dr Beddoes that the Reynolds....in Coalbrookdale have lately made a discovery in ?Iron which they say will soon astonish the world. Do you know any thing of it ?’].
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