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 ...

Anyone with an hour or two to spare in London over the next year will be rewarded by a visit to the James Watt exhibition at the Science Museum.[1] As befits an exhibition relating to this genius ...

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 ...