| Description | [He enquires the price of the saucepans Ann Watt had made on Count Rumford's plan, and the price of a pair of pistols with hair triggers. He has discovered in Humphry Davy a young man of great skill as a chemist, who has carried out experiments with light and heat, though he has little equipment. He proposes him as an assistant to Dr Beddoes. The situation in America.; results of war with France. He enquires the cost of an Argand lamp]. |