Title

'Watt's First Experiment', 18th century, (c1870). Artist: Herbert Bourne

Caption

'Watt's First Experiment', 18th century, (c1870). James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish engineer, as a boy experimenting with the tea-kettle at the dining table of his childhood home at Greenock. In the left background is his father's assistant with a client in the carpenter's shop. Watt made great improvements to the steam engine introducing, among other things, a separate condenser and the centrifugal or flyball governor. He formed a highly successful partnership with the Birmingham entrepreneur Matthew Boulton, manufacturing steam engines to power mills, mines and factories. The Standard (SI) unit of power, the Watt, is named for him. After the picture by Marcus Stone (1840-1921).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1870

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_159

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,6Mb) / 15,1in x 12,9in / 4526 x 3862 (300dpi)

Keywords

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