INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Series One: The Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from Birmingham Central Library

Part 15: Boulton & Watt Correspondence and Papers (MS 3147/3/485-560)

There is a strong section of correspondence on Special Subjects and Correspondents. This material includes files on:

• Aimé Argand.
• Richard Arkwright.
• the Bombay and Calcutta Mints.
• the Falmouth Water Company in Jamaica.
• Robert Fulton.
• the Gregory Mine.
• J D H van Liender
• the Llanarmon and Plas Mostyn mines.
• the Minera mine.
• the Royal Mint.
• St Katherine’s Dock.
• Spanish Engines.
• Thomas Telford.
• Josiah Wedgwood.
• John Wilkinson.

Further Memoranda and Papers comprise:

• Letters concerning new inventions, improvements in the steam engine and new schemes, 1801-1829.
• Letters about the history of the firm, 1865-1894.
• Schemes, plans, calculations and descriptions of new machines, 1769-1790.
• Experiments on Engines, 1773-1783.
• Steamboat memoranda, 1814-1863.