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Boulton's manufactory at Soho (a suburb of Birmingham) 

 that Watt's engines went forth to the world, and worked that 

 great change in the manufactures of England which has 

 made us one of the first nations of the world. 



The names of Boulton and Watt deserve to be classed 

 together as benefactors of mankind. Watt was the inventor, 

 the man who loved science, and who could not live without 

 creating. Boulton was the large-minded, enterprising man 

 of business ; he gave Watt men, money, courage, and sup- 

 port to carry out his inventions ; and by his sympathy with, 

 and command over the workmen, he led the army which 

 conquered indifference, persecution, and difficulties, and 

 established steam machinery in all the workshops of the 

 world. Watt died in 1819, in the eighty- third year of his 

 age, and was buried in Handsworth Church, near his friend 

 and partner Boulton, who had died ten years before. 



Chief Works consulted. — Black's 'Elements pf Chemistry,' 1803; 

 • Edinburgh Review,' vol. xiii. 'History of Steam-engines;' Arago, 

 ' Biographies of Scientific Men,' 1857 ; Smiles's 'Lives of Boulton and 

 Watt ; ' Everett Deschanel's ' Natural Philosophy ; ' Tyndall's ' Natural 

 Philosophy ; ' Balfour Stewart's ' Treatise on Heat ;' Beckman's ' His- 

 tory of Inventions.' 



