When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

Reprint of "Directions for erecting and working the newly-invented steam-engines. By Boulton and Watt. [1779]" with reproduction of t.-p.: p. [373]-398 and 6 pl. on 3 l. "Directions for working ...

A team of students have used 3D printing technology to create a model of a steam engine originally designed by James Watt more than 200 years ago. The JetX student society at the University of Glasgow ...

Picture the inventor toiling in splendid isolation. From such lonely genius spring the technologies that change our lives: from Gutenberg, the printing press; from James Watt, the steam engine; from ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An engine indicator is an instrument ...

AT a dinner given by the Franklin Institute on January 21, 1936, to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of James Watt, J. P. Boyd gave a thoughtful address, a resume of which appears ...