Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo quinto. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of November ... Being the first session of the fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain..
Great Britain.
Norman, Haskell F.,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan ...,
1775..
An act granting James Watt and his partner, Matthew Boulton, a second patent for his steam, or 'fire', engine. Watt had first obtained a patent in 1769, but by 1775 the improvements he had made to the initial design necessitated this second patent, which gave Watt and Boulton a monopoly on manufacture of the machine until 1800.
Part of the collected Public General Acts passed in the fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain (ESTC N057591).
ESTC
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate in portfolio case: H F Norman MD (i.e. from the Haskell F. Norman library of science and medicine).
Watt, James, 1736-1819.
Boulton, Matthew, 1728-1809.
Steam-engines
Steam-engines