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MS 3219 - James Watt and Family Papers - 13th century - 1873
1 - Records of Thomas Watt (1639 or 1642 - 1727) - 1694 - 1727
2 - Records of John Watt senior (1694 - 1736) - 1714 - 1744
3 - Records of James Watt of Greenock - 1724 - 1787
4 - Records of James Watt (1736 - 1819)
1 - Incoming correspondence of James Watt - 1761-1819
2 - Outgoing correspondence of James Watt - 1779 - 1819
3 - Letters returned to James Watt after the recipient's death - 1768 - 1799
4 - Notebooks of James Watt - 1755 - 1808
5 - Records of James Watt relating to mathematical instrument making - 1757 - 1773
6 - Records relating to surveying by James Watt - 1767 - 1793
7 - Records relating to patents - 1698 - 1808
8 - Records relating to Heathfield - 1786 - 1813
9 - Records relating to the Wyeside and Welsh Estates - 1790 - 1845
10 - Personal papers of James Watt - 1759 - 1817
11 - Papers of/by other people
12 - Miscellaneous papers of James Watt - 1727 - 1817
13 - Drawings - 18th cent. - 19th cent.
14 - Printed material - 1776 - 1822
1 - 'A plan and description of Mr John Stewart's Fire Engine Mill, [Jamaica] by J. Smith, London' - 1776
2 - 'Directions for erecting and working the newly-invented steam engines by Boulton and Watt' - nd. [c. 1779]
3 - 'Specification of an invention of certain new improvements upon steam or fire engines forn raising water, and other mechanical purposes and certain new pieces of mechanism applicable to the same' by James Watt - 1782
4 - A Treatise upon aerostatic machines, containing rules for calculating their powers of ascension; a demonstration of the forces which have a tendency to distend or burst them; and an extensive table by which the power and weight of any one, from ten to one hundred feet diameter may readily be found. Also an expeditious method of constructing them of any round form such as a globe, a vase, or an urn: with directions for filling them and making inflammable air etc. etc., by John Southern. Birmingham. - 1785
5 - Rules and Regulations of the Society of Civil Engineers and a List of Members - 1794
6 - The Philosophical Magazine, London - 1798
7 - 'The arguments of the judges in two causes relating to the letters patent granted to James Watt, engineer, for his method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines', taken in shorthand by Mr Gurney - 1799
8 - 'A survey and report of the coasts and central highlands of Scotland...made in the autumn of 1802' , by Thomas Telford - 1803
9 - Advertisement for the 'Instantaneous Light and Fire Machine' - 1808
10 - Instructions for preparing and using Barton's patent hydrostatic floating lamp - 1812
11 - 'The Annals of Philosophy or magazine of chemistry, mineralogy, mechanics, natural history, agriculture and the arts' by Thomas Thomson, London - 1813
12 - 'An Act for settling and securing the lands and estate of West Boreland and others in the County of Stirling to and in favour of William Morehead Esquire, and the Series of Heirs entitled to take by a certain Deed of Entail made by William Morehead Esquire, deceased, under the Conditions and Limitations in the said Deed; and for vesting in lieu thereof, certain parts of the Lands and Barony of Herbertshire, in the said County, in certain Trustees nominated by the said William Morehead, deceased, for the purposes of the Trust; and for empowering the Court of Session in Scotland to sell certain Parts and Portions of the said entailed Estate of Herbertshire, for payment of the Debts contracted by the said William Morehead, deceased.' - 1813
13 - The Edinburgh Magazine and literary miscellany - August 1819
14 - 'Experiments on the gas from coal chiefly with a view to its practical application' by William Henry, Manchester - 1819
15 - 'Observations on Larch: together with two experiments of the strength and resilience of the timber, and size of largest tree cut in 1817, and growing in 1819' by John, Duke of Atholl, London - 1819
16 - 'Exposé sommaire pour Mr Humphrey Edwards....contre Mr Louis-Didier Lecour....suivi du procès-verbal des expériences faites sur l'ancienne pompe à feu et sur la nouvelle machine à vapeur à double pression....avec: Le Rapport de M. Girard, Ingénieur en chef des Ponts et Chausées,...SUR la Machine à vapeur, construite par M.H. Edwards, Ingénieur breveté, et établie au Gros-Caillou.' - nd. [c. 1819]
17 - Professor John Robison's essays on steam and the steam engine, written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with additional notes by James Watt from 1814 - 1822
18 - Book of designs for gates by Hill & Breeze of Tipton - nd. [c. 1810]
5 - Records of John Watt Jr. (1739 - 1762) - 1759 - 1762
6 - Records of James Watt Jr. (1769 - 1848) - 13th cent. - 1848
7 - Records of Gregory Watt (1777 - 1804) - 1792 - 1804
8 - Miscellaneous records of the Watt family - c. 1754 - 1873
9 - Later additions to the records - 1672 - 1848
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