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James Watt and the steam engine; the memorial volume prepared for the Committee of the Watt Centenary Commemoration at Birmingham 1919, by H.W. Dickinson & Rhys Jenkins

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 ...
Nature

Progress in Turbine Machinery

IN March 1776 in the reign of George III, Johnson and Boswell spent a few days in Birmingham, and the latter, accompanied by Johnson's old schoolfellow Hector, took the opportunity to see the famous ...
Nature

Watt Bicentenary Exhibition at the Science Museum

A SPECIAL exhibition was opened at the Science Museum, South Kensington, on December 20 to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth at Greenock on January 19, 1736, of James Watt, the famous engineer ...