Excerpt from The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements of the Past Year, in Mechanics, Natural Philosophy, Electricity, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, Geology and Geography, Meteorology and Astronomy The younger Mr. Boulton informs us, that in the year 1819, the establishment at Soho alone had manufactured of Watt's machines, a number, whose steady labour would have required not fewer than horses; and that the saving result from the substitution of these machines for animal labour, amounted annually to more than sterling. Throughout England and Scotland, at the same date, the number of these machines exceeded They effected the work of horses, or of three or four millions of men, with an annual saving of from to 16,000,000l sterling. These results must, by this time, be more than doubled. - Trans lated in Jameson's Journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.