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In the same space of time, it raised a weight equal to 81,000 lbs. to the height of 80 feet, exerting a horses. The following numerous curious and im- portantly useful articles and machines are said to have been manufactured at the Soho works, which, when fully employed, give bread to upwards of six hundred labourers :

Buttons in general; gilt, plated, silvered inlaid with steel; Platina, pinchbeck; hard white me- tal; fancy compositions; mother of pearl; po- lished steel and jettina steel-toys; polished steel watch-chains; patent cork-screws, &c. by Boulton and Scale. Patent latchets, and buckles; silver, strong-plated, pinchbeck and steel; by Boulton and Smith. Plated and silver wares, in general for the dining-table, tea-table; side-board vessels of various kinds, candlesticks, branches, &c. by Matthew Boulton and Plate Company. Medals in general, and of various metals, by Matthew Boul- i on. The late beautiful copper coinage comes under this branch of the Soho manufactory; a wonderful operation performed by the immense and curious powers of the steam-engine; which give action to eight machines performing the following processes. 1 st, Roiling the masses of copper into sheets; 2d, fine rolling the same cold, through cylindrical steel

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