Note 90 — Chapter VIII · Watt’s Connexion with Dr. Roebuck—Watt acts as Surveyor and Engineer.

The Company afterwards came to grief. The original subscription list was not filled up, and the stagnation in trade which took place at the outbreak of the American war, brought the works to a standstill. In 1782 the concern was sold to the Messrs. Stirling, who eventually became the sole proprietors and finished the undertaking.