| Description | There is a bundle wrapper which consisits of a letter to Baillie John Brown (Glasgow) from George Brown (Glasgow) 10 Nov. 1768 which reads: ' Sir Inclosed I send you the papers you desired to see....'.
Three of the papers in the bundle have original numbers, (1,3,4); the bundle contains the following:
No. 1. Paper titled: 'Facts relating to the River Clyde. 23 Sept. 1755 by Mr Smetton'. [sic]
No. 3. Paper titled: 'Report concerning a canal of navigation near the River Clyde.' by John Smeaton (Glasgow) 12 Dec. 1758.
No. 4. Paper titled: 'Report concerning the improvement of the navigation of the River Clyde.' by John Smeaton (Glasgow) 12 Dec. 1758.
Paper titled: 'Observations on the River Clyde taken from Peter Stewart an Experienced Waterman, by George Brown, Merchant in Glasgow the 7th Decem[ber] 1768.'.
Letter. John Smeaton (Austhorpe) to Boulton & Watt (Birmingham). 5 Jan. 1778. [Concerning his own improvements to the steam engine and his wish to make a trial of the separate condenser].
Letter. John Smeaton (Austhorpe) to Boulton & Watt (Birmingham). 5 Feb. 1778. [Concerning improvements to steam engines].
Letter. John Smeaton (London) to Boulton & Watt (Birmingham). 30 Mar. 1778. [An account of his working life; his wish not to work for Boulton & Watt; the matter of an engine for Mr Wright of Hull; consumption of coal etc].
Letter. John Smeaton (Austhorpe) to Logan Henderson (Hull; at Mr Mayson Wright's). 7 Nov. 1778. [Engines].
Newscuttings printing an exchange of letters between Boulton & Watt and John Smeaton published in the Newcastle Courant Sep. 1778 and in the Newcastle Gazette May to July, 1779, comparing the performance of Smeaton's engine with that of Boulton & Watt's.
Letter. John Smeaton (Austhorpe) to Boulton & Watt (Birmingham). 6 Jul. 1779. Enclosing:
b) Copy letter. John Smeaton (Austhorpe) to Mr Saint (--). 6 Jul. 1779.
Paper titled: 'Twelve Prohibitions concerning the structure of fire Engines enjoined by the specification on Mr Watt's Act of Parliament.' and a copy of the same. There is also a wrapper, which has written on it: 'Mr Smeaton's original 12 prohibitions & copy...... which is desired to be attested by Sir Jos. Banks.' |