Specification of James Watt : furnaces and fire-places.

  • James Watt
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of James Watt : furnaces and fire-places. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Barker, Extra. Watt's Improved Construction of Furnaces or Fire-places, <fyc. and nature of the fire-places herein mentioned, described, and delineated, the boilers and other parts of the furnaces being such as are in common use. And be it also remembered that these new invented fire-places are applicable to furnaces for almost every use or purpose. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth 5 day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five. JAMES WATT, (l.s.) Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first duly stampt), and the words “ which are applicable to steam engines and other purposes ” in the fifth line, the words “ together with a current of fresh air ” in the tenth line, the words “ and by being mixed with the current of fresh or unburnt air ” in the twelfth line, the words “ air is ” in the twenty- fifth line, the word “ admitting ” in the thirty-second line, and the words “ and by mixing it with fresh air when in these circumstances” in the thirty- fourth line, being all previously inter¬ lined, in presence of John Southern, Charles Porden. 10 AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid James Watt came before our said Lord the King in his Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above written. 30 And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose. Inrolled the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1854.
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