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A hundred miles north in Priestley’s home town of Leeds, Matthew Murray was preparing to leave employment in a mill to found his own steam engine start-up. Watt’s son, also James, competed aggressively with Murray, sending spies and buying up land to stop him expanding his business.
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[...] of my 1794 heroes were the steam pioneer James Watt and Holbeck engineer Matthew Murray, but the villain of this piece is Watt’s son, also called James, who that year joined his [...]