ABSTRACT
The fertility of British inventors and the rapid fortunes being made in the textile and engineering trades of Britain during the post-war period naturally attracted attention at a time when the laws relating to the export of machinery and the emigration of skilled artisans from Britain were being relaxed. The earliest document in the new material is a letter from Thomas Sharp, jun., of Birch Cottage, Rusholme, near Manchester, dated Sunday 11 June 1826, to Henri Bock, who at that moment was in London with Richard Roberts. An annoying circumstance has occurred, in Mr. Roberts having been subpoenaed to the Assizes at Lancaster, to give evidence about the machinery broken in the late riots. Andre Koechlin wanted two new steam engines for collieries in France; the original engine ordered had meanwhile been loaded at Liverpool on the French brig Susannah.
