LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Portrait of [James Watt] | to face [Title-page] |
| „ [Matthew Boulton] | to face page [159] |
| | Page |
| [Edward, second Marquis of Worcester] | [2] |
| [Ancient Greek Æolipile] | [3] |
| [Branca’s Machine] | [7] |
| [De Caus’s Steam Apparatus] | [9] |
| [Ruins of Raglan Castle] | [26] |
| [Dionysius Papin] | [31] |
| [Ancient Paddle-Boat] | [36] |
| [Thomas Savery] | [41] |
| [Section of Savery’s Paddle-Boat] | [43] |
| [Savery’s Fire-Engine] | [52] |
| [Huel Vor] | [55] |
| [Newcomen’s House, Dartmouth] | [60] |
| [Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine] | [67] |
| [Ruins of Wheal Fortune] | [70] |
| [Polgooth] | [71] |
| [Jonathan Hull’s Steam-Boat] | [73] |
| [Dartmouth from the Harbour] | [76] |
| [Greenock and the Clyde, 1865] | [78] |
| [Greenock Harbour, 1768] | [79] |
| [Crawfordsburn House, Greenock] | [80] |
| [James Watt Tavern, Greenock] | [87] |
| [Trongate, Glasgow] | [97] |
| [Inner Quadrangle, Glasgow College] | [107] |
| [Isometric View of Glasgow College, 1693] | [108] |
| [The Broomielaw in 1760] | [116] |
| [Professor Robison] | [117] |
| [Papin’s Digester] | [120] |
| [The Newcomen Model] | [121] |
| [Watt’s House, Delftfield Lane] | [126] |
| [Watt’s first Improved Apparatus] | [130] |
| [Dr. Joseph Black] | [132] |
| [Kinneil House] | [142] |
| [Outhouse behind Kinneil] | [148] |
| [Hamilton Bridge] | [156] |
| [Port Glasgow] | [158] |
| [Birmingham] | [160] |
| [Soho Manufactory] | [169] |
| [Soho House] | [177] |
| [Watt’s House, Harper’s Hill] | [214] |
| [Map of United Mines District] | [231] |
| [Watt’s Pumping-Engine for Mines] | [236] |
| [Redruth, High Street] | [238] |
| [Cardozos Pumping-Engine] | [260] |
| [United Mines District and St. Day] | [261] |
| [Cosgarne House] | [275] |
| [Entrance to ditto] | [284] |
| [The “Waggon and Horses,” Handsworth] | [285] |
| [The Crank as applied in the Foot-Lathe] | [287] |
| [Interior of the “Waggon and Horses”] | [288] |
| [Old Engine-House, Dalcoath] | [306] |
| [Sun-and-Planet Motion] | [309] |
| [“Old Bess” Engine] | [326] |
| [The parallel Motion] | [334] |
| [The Governor] | [335] |
| [Polgooth Engine-House] | [339] |
| [Double Acting Engine, Albion Mill] | [355] |
| [Dr. Priestley] | [370] |
| [Site of Soho Mint] | [399] |
| [Burning of Dr. Priestley’s House] | [411] |
| [William Murdock] | [422] |
| [Murdock’s House, Handsworth] | [433] |
| [Miller’s Triple Vessel] | [437] |
| [Symington’s first Steamboat-Engine] | [441] |
| [Miller’s Experimental Steamboat] | [442] |
| [Machinery of the ‘Charlotte Dundas’] | [447] |
| [The “Comet” passing Dumbarton] | [453] |
| [Watt’s House, Heathfield] | [456] |
| [Boulton’s Monument in Handsworth Church] | [478] |
| [The Garret at Heathfield] | [494] |
| [Water-Pipe in the Bed of the Clyde] | [497] |
| [Watt’s Chapel and Monument, Handsworth Church] | [508] |
| [Handsworth Church] | [514] |
BEGINNINGS OF THE STEAM-ENGINE:
THE EARLY INVENTORS.
EDWARD, SECOND MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.
[By T. D. Scott after Vandyck.]
ANCIENT GREEK ÆOLIPILE.