| Description | [Docket by James Watt:] About the doctor’s discoveries and some that I claim. The allusion in this letter to building my house on the Doctor’s ground relates only to the points herein mentioned and not to the invention of the Steam Engine. [Docket by James Watt jr:] Upon the conversion of water into air. [Mr De Luc’s proposed writing on heat and elastic fluids has necessitated an explanation of Watt's and Black’s work. What he intends to tell De Luc. Mr Keir about to publish a new chemical dictionary and would like the same information. Has succeeded in making a balling forge work regularly by a steam engine]. (Partners no. 85) |