Business Records of James Brown 1817 - 1863

Watt, James, 1769-1848

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Boulton Watt and Co

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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 compa...

Brown, James., 1790-1872

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Ewart, Peter., 1767-1842

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James Watt and Co

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