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MS 3147 - Boulton and Watt Collection - 1761 - 1977

1 - Records of Boulton & Watt and Successor Firms - 1766 - 1919

2 - Legal Records - 1766 - 1851

3 - Correspondence and Papers - 1769 - 1895

4 - PRODUCTION RECORDS - 1774 - 1895

5 - DRAWINGS - MAIN SERIES - 1775 - 1904

6 - DRAWINGS - "AVERY" PORTFOLIOS - 1815 - 1903

7 - DRAWINGS - 'SCIENCE MUSEUM' PORTFOLIOS - 1797 - 1919

8 - Staff and Employment Records - 1784-1888

9 - Premises Records - 1783-1894

10 - MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED MATERIAL - 1776 - 1896

1 - Heads of a bill to explain and amend the laws relative to Letters Patent & Grants of Privilege for new inventions, by James Watt - nd.

2 - To Millers & Others: Hooper’s New Invented Vanes & Sails for Windmills with directions for fixing Hooper’s patent regulator and feed for corn mills - nd.

3 - A Bill for the proposed Tax on Iron, 1806; clauses A to F and schedules A and B to which the act refers - 1806

4 - Catalogue of Swedish Iron Marks - nd.

5 - Notebook with explanation of the mensuration of solids, algebra etc. - nd.

6 - Notes on Barlow on the Strength of Timber – Historical Sketch of Former Theories - nd.

7 - “The philosophic water-wayer or a plain physico-mechanical essay” by David Creagh - nd.

8 - Dr. Angus Smith’s Composition for coating pipes - nd.

9 - Catalogue of Old Engines - 1895

10 - Scrapbook - 1892

10a - “Portfolio No. 3” – scrapbook - 1890s

10b - Large scrapbook - nd.

Expand 11 - Lists of Cornish mine engines, boat engines and James Watt & Co. patent pocket boilers, compiled by Henry Hazleton and used in the Watt Room and Catalogue of Old Engines - 1890s

11 - Lists of Cornish mine engines, boat engines and James Watt & Co. patent pocket boilers, compiled by Henry Hazleton and used in the Watt Room and Catalogue of Old Engines - 1890s

12 - Notes made by Henry Hazleton from the Drawings Day Book from 1866 to 1868, 1890s; text and diagram showing Watt’s first model engine of 1764; Hazleton’s notes on James Watt and Dr. Beddoes - 1866 - 1890s

13 - Lists of the contents of The Watt Room: List of drawings in cases, boats engines, steam boat draughts, and “Miscellaneous early prints, drawings and other information”; List of approximate number of portfolios, articles, letters in cases etc. - January 1895 - February 1895

14 - List of Contents of the Watt Room - [1895]

15 - An Account & Description of an Improved Steam-Engine, by N. D. Falck - 1776

16 - Exposé Succinct des avantages des moulins à roues inclinées à palettes etc.; tels qu’ils ont été inventés par MM. les fères F. & G. Eckhardt - nd.

17 - An appeal to the Public on the Right of using oil-cement or composition for stucco etc. - 1778

18 - Act for making a canal from Rider’s Green, Staffs. to various coal mines and from Birmingham to Fazeley - 1783

20 - Remarks on a Government Paper entitled Iron Trade: England and Ireland - nd.

21 - Answers to the Treasury Paper on the Iron Trade of England and Ireland - nd.

22 - Act to Prohibit the Export of Tools - 1786

23 - Card from Birmingham Canal Navigations giving notice of meeting - [05 March 1791]

23a - “Steam Engine,” article by John Robison from the Encyclopedia Britannica - 1797

24 - Commercial, Agricultural & Manufacturer’s Magazine - March 1800

25 - Lettre au Redacteur du Konst-en Letterbode (Courier Litteraire) concernant la nouvelle machine à feu à Hellevoetsluis, Harleem - 1802

26 - Nieuwe Verhandlingen van het Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam, Rotterdam - 1806

27 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1806 Part I, II, 1807 Pt. I - 1806 - 1807

28 - An analysis of varieties of British and Foreign Salt (Muriate of Soda), William Henry, London - 1810

29 - A letter from the Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Melville to the Earl of Aberdeen relative to the Management of the Civil Service of the Navy, London - 1810

30 - A letter from the Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Melville to the Rt. Hon. Spencer Percival relative to the Establishment of a Naval Arsenal at Northfleet, London - 1810

31 - Printed circular describing the Soho Illuminations - 15 June 1814

32 - Annals of Philosophy, Vol. VIII, No. II - February 1816

33 - Printed Dutch act (in Dutch) concerning gas lighting [?] - 25 January 1817

34 - House of Commons Select Committee Report on Steam Engines and Furnaces etc. - 12 July 1819

35 - Sir William Congreve’s New Principle of Steam Engine… for the Saving of Fuel and Consumption of Smoke, London - 1819

36 - Observations on the effects produced by the Expenditure of Government during the Restriction of Cash Payments, by William Blake, London - 1823

37 - A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Earl of Chichester on the Practicability of Rendering those Properties of Air which relate to Caloric applicable to New and Important Purposes, London - 1823

38 - History and Description of the Steam Engine, by James Smith, London - 1825

39 - On the Friction and Resistance of Fluids, by George Rennie, London - 1831

40 - Thomas Grahame’s Letter to Nicholas Wood on Chapter IX of his Treatise on Railroads, Glasgow - nd.

41 - Examen Analytique de l’Usine de Decazeville by M. Pillet-Will, Paris - 1832

42 - An Account of the Origin and progress of heating Hot-houses and other Buildings by the Application and Circulation of Hot Water, instead of by Fuel or Steam, by George Cottam - 1834

43 - Extracts from Samuel Hall’s Specification of his Patent for Improvements in Propelling Vessels and in Steam Engines, Nottingham - 1837

44 - Hall’s Improvements on Steam Engines, Nottingham - nd.

45 - On Plane Metallic Surfaces and the proper mode of preparing them, by Joseph Whitworth, London - 1840

46 - On Increasing the evaporative power of boilers with remarks on the management of furnaces, by Charles Wye Williams, Manchester - 1842

47 - Knott’s Enlarged Birmingham Almanack and Commercial Intelligencer (sheets for wall-mounting) - 1841 - 1850

48 - Aris’ Birmingham Gazette - 19 December 1842

49 - The Bubble of the Age or the Fallacies of Railway Investments, by Arthur Smith, London - 1848

50 - An Act for promoting the Public Health - 31 August 1848

51 - The Imperial Cyclopaedia of Machinery: plans, sections, elevations etc. of… engines… from the Great Exhibition, circa 1851 (incomplete) - 1851

52 - Inauguration of the Statue of James Watt in connection with the Watt Institution - 12 May 1854

53 - Direct-Acting Screw Engine, designed and patented by G. D. Bishopp - 1855

54 - Reviews of books on Watt by Muirhead and Williamson, circa 1858 - c. 1858

55 - Results of An Experimental Inquiry into the Comparative Tensile Strength and other properties of various kinds of Wrought Iron and Steel, by David Kircaldy - 1862

56 - History of the Steam Hammer, a lecture by T. S. Rowlandson - 1864

57 - The Indian Empire and our Financial Relations therewith, by Robert Knight, London - 1866

58 - The Gas Consumer’s Guide, by W. Richards, London - 1866

59 - Contributions to the History of the Steam Engine, being two deeds relating to the erection of steam engines on the United Mines at Gwennap, Cornwall, and Werneth Colliery, Lancashire, by Boulton & Watt, London - 1872

60 - “London Gas”, in British Quarterly Review - 01 January 1879

61 - Catalogue of the Models of Machinery, Drawings, Tools etc. in the South Kensington Museum, London - 1880

62 - Prospectus of the Mersey Salt & Brine Co. Ltd. - 1881

63 - On the Inventions of James Watt, and his models preserved at Handsworth & South Kensington, by E. A. Cowper - 1883

64 - Memorial Edition of the Life of Richard Trevithick, London - 1883

65 - James Watt and William Murdock - 1880s

66 - William Murdock, Inventor of the First Locomotive and of Gas Lighting - 1880s

67 - A letter to a Member of Parliament from Mr. William Murdock, in vindication of his character and claims, 1809 – reprint by R. B. Prosser - June 1892

68 - “The Murdoch Memorial Lecture. A century of work on the development of light from coal gas”, Vivian B. Lewes, Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply etc. - 21 June 1892

69 - Notebook of cuttings on Watt and photography - 1863

70 - Illustrations of Birmingham’s illuminations for the Queen’s visit and Jubilee - 1887

71 - Notebooks of cuttings about memorials to William Murdock, centenary of gas lighting and Birmingham Illuminations - 1889 - 1893

72 - Notebook of cuttings on the closure of Soho Foundry - 1895

73 - Sale Catalogue of the contents of Aston Hall, late the residence of James Watt - 16 April 1850 - 20 April 1850

74 - A Catalogue of the Valuable Machinery and Plant of the Soho Mint to be sold at auction, Apr. 1850, with 2 typescript copies of the list of medals, coins and tokens in the second day’s sale - 30 April 1850

75 - Catalogue of the Engineers’ Stock and Stores at Soho Foundry, for sale by auction - March 1895

76 - A Catalogue of Fixed Plant and Machinery and Fixed Engineers’ and Boilermakers’ Tools at the Soho Foundry, for sale by auction - May 1895

77 - Particulars, Plans and Conditions of Sale of the valuable freehold engineering works known as the “Soho Foundry”, Smethwick, Birmingham… together with the fixed plant and machinery - 21 May 1895

78 - Catalogue of a collection of Soho Curios for sale by auction - September 1895

79 - A Catalogue of Engineers’ and Boilermakers’ Tools and Machinery at the Soho Foundry for sale at auction - May 1896

11 - Miscellaneous Non-Engineering Business Material - 1761-c.1850

12 - RECORDS OF THE BOULTON, WATT & CO. LONDON OFFICE - 1818 - 1885

12 - Records of the Boulton Watt & Co. London Office - 1818-1885

13 - LONDON OFFICE LETTERS OF ADVICE - 1828 - 1837

14 - London Office Financial Records - 1835-1883

15 - LONDON OFFICE SURVEY OF STEAM POWER IN THE NORTH EAST, 1835 - 1835

16 - London Office Miscellaneous Papers - 1817-1881

17-20 - Records of James Watt & Co - 1779 - 1851

18 - James Watt & Co. Legal Records - 1779-1780

21-25 - Records of French Walls Iron & Steel Works - 1816 - 1866

26 - M.R.Boulton, J. Watt & Co. Financial and Legal Records - 1804 - 1836

26-30 - Records of M. R. Boulton J. Watt & Co. - 1771-1840

27 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Correspondence - 1816-1840

28 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of William and Charlotte Matthews - 1771-1830

29 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of Joseph Taylor and Taylor Campbell & Bowden - 1804-1813

30 - M.R.Boulton, J.Watt & Co. Papers of John Woodward - 1803-1812

31 - Material added by George Tangye - 1857 -1915

32 - Material added by Birmingham Library - 1784 - 1977

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