Contents

• 1. Title page
• 2. Fischer’s interest in technical progress
• 3. Schaffhausen–Basel, 7 August 1814
• 4. Basel–Paris, 8–14 August 1814
• 5. Arrival in Paris, 14 August 1814
• 6. The Vendôme Column and a visit to the theatre, 15 August 1814
• 7. An outing to Chaillot, 16 August 1814
• 8. Making the acquaintance of Philippe Gengembre, 17 August 1814
• 9. Visit to the fire brigade and departure, 18 August 1814
• 10. Paris–Dover, 18–21 August 1814
• 11. Dover–London, 21–22 August 1814
• 12. The British Museum, pencils and Shakespeare, 23 August 1814
• 13. Registration at the Alien Office and a programme for a rainy day, 24 August 1814
• 14. Business visits in Cheapside and the Strand, 25 August 1814
• 15. Rolled spring steel from Schaffhausen, 26 August 1814
• 16. London–Birmingham, 26–27 August 1814
• 17. Birmingham’s “Altar to Vulcan”, 27 August 1814
• 18. James Watt gives a tour of his plant and and an invitation to lunch, 28 August 1814
• 19. Exploring the Black Country on horseback with James Watt, 29 August 1814
• 20. First encounter with malleable cast iron in Birmingham, 30 August 1814
• 21. File manufactory and a trip to Newcastle-under-Lyme, 31 August 1814
• 22. In Wedgwood’s Etruria Works, 1 September 1814
• 23. Manchester, 2 September 1814
• 24. Essay on the “comparative brightness” of William Murdoch
• 25. “The good nature of the English of the upper and lower orders”
• 26. Travelling on the “Salamanca” to Leeds, 3 September 1814
• 27. Leeds, 4 September 1814
• 28. Sheffield and Rotherham, 5 September 1814
• 29. Cannon casting at the Walker works, 6 September 1814
• 30. Visits to factories in Sheffield, 6 September 1814
• 31. Making the acquaintance of Francis Huntsman, 6 September 1814
• 32. Return to London, 7-8 September 1814
• 33. Return to France, 10–12 September 1814
• 34. Final visits in Paris, 12–17 September 1814
• 35. Return to Schaffhausen, 18–22 September 1814