Abstract
THE appearance of this book is most opportune. Some such comparatively brief study of Watt has long been needed, for the large memorial volume on “James Watt and the Steam Engine”, due to the collaboration of Mr. Rhys Jenkins and Mr. Dickinson, was never likely to be widely read, while the older work by Smiles, valuable as it still is, is out of date. Since Smiles wrote, a great mass of material connected with Watt and also with the famous firm of Boulton and Watt has become available, and this has led to a much closer study of a very important chapter in industrial history. A good deal of this material has found its way into the collections at the Science Museum, and as keeper of the Engineering Division Mr. Dickinson had the congenial task of studying and arranging the Watt exhibits there. His knowledge of the subject is therefore probably unique.
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