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Ref NoMS 3219/4/3/1/6
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/127/6
TitleLetter. James Watt (Birmingham) to Joseph Black (Edinburgh).
LevelItem
Date24 July 1778
Description[Lower right hand corner missing]. [He regrets he could not find better ores to send from Cornwall. Detests ‘ paper war’, and has too much to do to refute publications. The perpetuum mobile was to be tried last week. Acknowledgements to Black in Maquer's new dictionary. Wallerius's new theory of the earth. Heat. The engines go well and begin to make money. He has discovered a method of copying letters instantaneously].
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