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Description: | JB 1 Employment Agreement with Boulton Watt & Co. 1818
JB 2 Drawings 1854 - 1863
JB 3 Diaries 1817/18
JB 4 Working Notes 1836
JB 5 Correspondence 1821 - 1847
JB 6 Exhibition Publication 1851
JB 7 Photographs 1860
JB 8 Biographical Record of Peter Ewart, employee of Boulton & Watt 1844 - James Brown was born in Dundee in 1790. Early in life he met James Watt and took a position at Soho engineering works, Birmingham. He accompanied James Watt the younger in the Caledonia steam vessel, the first steamer to ascend the Rhine as far as Coblenz, in 1817. In 1821 he acted as chief engineer of the James Watt, towing the Royal Sovereign, with his majesty George IV, into Leith harbour. As the London agent of Boulton,Watt and Co in the 1820s he secured a considerable business for the company, particularly with the post office. He played a prominent role with various steam packet companies and designed many vessels, including the first steam vessels introduced by the government for carrying mail, and also the first steam engines used by the navy. As head of the Drawing Office and London Department he schemed lines and arrangements of the first fleet of steamers between Edinburgh and London, and Gravesend and London. From 1840-61 he was a partner of Boulton, Watt and Co. | Source: | Heriot-Watt University | Address: | Mary Burton Centre, Level 1 Cameron Smail Librar, Heriot-Watt University,,
EH14 4AS | Contributor: | The records were gifted to Heriot-Watt College in 1932, by the family of James Brown. They were subsequently inherited by Heriot-Watt University, as the College's successor body | Identifier: | JB |
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