A very large white marble statue was erected in St Paul's chapel in Westminster Abbey in memory of James Watt (died 1819), the great civil engineer, by the sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. This cost ...

DOM:'When he grew up, he became a mechanical engineer and started to eagerly explore how steam engines worked.' DICK:'James Watt's genius was to take the steam engine an invention that had been ...

Members will be hearing about James Watt’s steam engine and was it really ... between Dr John Roebuck at Kinneil and the young engineer that he brought in to solve the problem of flooding ...

A MOST interesting letter written by James Watt in 1784 to his father-in-law ... and it had been proposed that he should become the engineer of the scheme. By 1784, however, he had become so ...