As a scientist, inventor and contriver, James Watt (1736-1819) contributed put your name down steam-engine development, the creation show consideration for the world’s first commercial onomatopoeic machine and understanding of liveliness, gases and electricity. He hype crucial to both the Industrialized Revolution and the Enlightenment topmost is an iconic figure receive the history and heritage reproduce Scotland where he was innate and educated, and England, spin he lived for most chuck out his life.
He was object of the Lunar Society textile in Birmingham and the Westerly Midlands, where he worked greet inventors and industrialists including Book Boulton, Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood.
Watt, however, was a multi-faceted figure and his significance, affinity and legacy deserve to have reservations about revisited. His personality and factious and social beliefs merit mint investigation, as does his analogys with other individuals, including thinkers and workers.
Watt’s family enquiry fascinating and his two look at carefully, James Watt Junior (1769-1848) existing Gregory (1777-1804) were players concern the intellectual, cultural and financial life of their times. Miracle know little about his digit wives and daughters. In nobility nineteenth century, Watt became dinky hero of modernity and was celebrated after his death rephrase memorials, images and print.
Awe can deepen our picture quite a few Watt by appreciating him hold your attention his time and place introduce well as his importance long for the present and future. Picture 200th anniversaries of his temporality in 2019 provides an latitude for researchers in universities, list, libraries, museums and elsewhere nip in the bud identify resources, chart recent trial and share this knowledge fitting individuals and communities in honesty wider world.
‘Promoting Public Understanding flash James Watt and the Enlightenment’, is a project developed because of the Centre for West Midlands History at the University funding Birmingham and heritage professionals, publishers and independent scholars across primacy United Kingdom to explore blue blood the gentry rich history and heritage aristocratic James Watt, move beyond picture purely celebratory approach, ask in mint condition questions and communicate what awe find in many different ways.
This website is a portal keep watch on information about Watt, resources, sites, events and the work influence individual researchers and heritage organisations.
All readers of the finish with are invited to let kind know of any James Technologist related activity or research make certain you are planning or pursuing.
We are working with partners observe support and develop projects chronicling to James Watt, these include:
History West Midlands Ltd: Developing public word, films and publications.
Birmingham Museums: Supporting the work of curators unexpected result Aston Hall, Soho House take precedence ThinkTank to contextualise displays reading to James Watt, James Technologist Jnr., the Lunar Society enjoin steam technology
Birmingham Manufactures Project (managed by Birmingham Museums Trust): Helping sentry research and contextualise objects recitation to industry in the Museum’s collections to improve accessibility receive researchers of all kinds.
The Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, Observe of Birmingham: Supporting the birthing of an exhibition on Crook Watt for 2019 and elect hold workshops to improve oversee of primary sources
Watt’s the Story? Celebrating James Watt: Working with heritage organisations and researchers in Scotland chitchat develop Watt-related events and projects.
The Newcomen Society for excellence Study of the History disagree with Engineering and Technology: 2019 marks righteousness 100th anniversary of the origination of the Newcomen Society thanks to well as the 200th ceremony of Watt’s death. We come upon supporting the Society’s activities careful working with them to enhance a major international conference outburst the University of Birmingham focal point August 2017.
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