PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SYMINGTON

PATENTS

No. 1610 5 June 1787 "A Steam engine on principles entirely new."

No. 2544 14 October 1801 "A new mode of constructing steam engines, and applying their power for the purposes of producing rotatory and other motions, without the interposition of a lever or a beam."

LETTERS AND SUBMISSIONS

1786

LETTER TO THOMAS GILBERT M.P. (regarding his steam carriage)

Wanlockhead, 24 September 1786

1787

LETTER TO THE ADMIRALTY (his proposal to raise the Royal George)

17 January 1787

LETTER TO JAMES TAYLOR (an indirect reference to the Dalswinton steamboat experiment)

Wanlockhead, 20 August 1787

1789

LETTERS TO PATRICK MILLER (relating to steamboat construction)

Wanlockhead, 1 May 1789

Wanlockhead, 19 May 1789

Carron, 24 June 1789

The above letters to Miller were reproduced in an article published in the Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of all Nations, 1851, Supplement, Volume 4, pages 1472-1476.

1804-1815

LETTERS TO FORBES OF CALLENDAR (see section on the Callendar Colliery)

From 1804 to 1815, relating to business dealings with Forbes; including an invitation to the funeral of his son John in 1807. (Held in the Falkirk Archives)

1814

LETTER TO ROBERT WIGHT, his accountant and adviser (to arrange a meeting with Glasgow shipowners)

5 June 1814

MEMORIAL for William Symington (26th Dec., 1814), engineer at Falkirk. To the Trustees, for improving the communication between Fife and Mid-Lothian by the ferries of Kinghorn and Leith.

1821

LETTER TO JAMES TAYLOR (relating to their business agreement)

Glasgow, 9 February 1821

1822

Authentic Account of the Origin, Progress & Utility of Steam Vessels by William Symington Civil Engineer Falkirk, Edinburgh and his appeal for Remuneration for the Invention 1st Novr 1822

LETTER TO JAMES WALKER 11 November 1822 (requesting his assistance)

1824

PETITION TO PARLIAMENT 4 November 1825 (with a MEMORIAL TO TREASURY dated 1 December 1824)

1825

LETTER TO ROBERT WIGHT (about preparation of his Petition to Parliament)

Falkirk, 22 November 1825

1827

LETTER TO THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY 26 March 1827

LETTER TO THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY dated Falkirk, 19 September 1827

1828

SUBMISSION TO ADMIRALTY dated London, 4 March 1828 (containing suggestions for a steam powered warship and a breech-loading cannon)

1829

LETTER TO HIS SON WILLIAM, dated Falkirk, 10 June 1829 (see the section on his auletic chronometer)