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NOTICE OF THE LIFE OF MR. WATT.—HIS FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES AT BIRMINGHAM.—INVENTION OF THE COPYING PRESS.—HEATING BY STEAM.—DRYING LINEN BY STEAM.—THEORY OF THE COMPOSITION OF WATER.—FIRST MARRIAGE OF WATT.—DEATH OF HIS FIRST WIFE.—HIS SECOND MARRIAGE.—DEATH OF HIS YOUNGER SON.—EXTRACTS FROM HIS LETTERS.—CHARACTER OF WATT BY LORD BROUGHAM.—BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.—BY LORD JEFFREY.—OCCUPATION OF HIS OLD AGE.—INVENTION OF MACHINE FOR COPYING SCULPTURE.—HIS LAST DAYS.—MONUMENTS.