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James Watt 2019

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James Watt 2019
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  • Exhibition/
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    • Programme
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    • Events Brochure (PDF)
    • Walking Trail (PDF)
  • Research/
    • Recent Research
    • Researchers
    • About James Watt
    • Call for papers
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    • Flickr Gallery
    • Heritage & Research Collections
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    • James Watt and Family Papers
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    • Steam Engines
    • Websites
    • Publications
    • New Gallery
Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives

Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives

Cathedral House St Chad's Queensway Birmingham B4 6EU

Website

Collection details:

• Lease between Watt and William Withering

Birmingham Archives and Heritage

Birmingham Archives and Heritage

Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2ND

Website

Collection details: 

Archives of Soho comprising of: 

• Matthew Boulton Papers

• James Watt Papers

• Boulton & Watt Archive

Birmingham Assay Office

Birmingham Assay Office

1 Moreton Street Birmingham B1 3AX

Website

Collection details:

• James Watt copying press

Birmingham Museum and Art	 Gallery

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3DH

Website:

Main website
Online catalogue

Collection details: 

• Portraits

• Views of places and buildings associated with Watt including representations of his Heathfield House workshop

• Commemorative medals

Birmingham Museums Collection Centre

Birmingham Museums Collection Centre

 25 Dolman Street Nechells Birmingham B7 4RQ

Website

Collection details:

• Various items relating to James Watt and his business interests

British Library

British Library

96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB

Website

Collection details:

• Patents

• Correspondence of James Watt and James Watt Jnr

British Museum

British Museum

Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG

Website

Collection details: 

• Prints

• Medals

• Seal

Cadbury Research Library

Cadbury Research Library

Muirhead Tower (LG Floor) University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence between Watt and others

• Prints of members of the Lunar Society including James Watt

Cornwall Record Office

Cornwall Record Office

Old County Hall Truro Cornwall TR1 3AY

Website

Collection details: 

• Correspondence and material relating to steam engines

• Correspondence of Thomas Wilson, agent to Boulton and Watt

• Correspondence between Boulton, Watt and other regarding their Cornish interests

Deutsches Museum

Deutsches Museum

Museumsinsel 1 80538 München Germany

Website

Collection details: 

• Notebook containing two detailed drawings made at Soho in 1791 of Watt's rotative steam engine

East Sussex Record Office

East Sussex Record Office

The Keep, Woollards Way, Brighton, BN1 9BP

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence of Davies Gilbert mainly concerning his scientific and antiquarian interests, and particularly resulting from his presidency and vice presidency of the Royal Society including letters between Davies Gilbert and James Watt.

• Gregory Watt of Soho (Birmingham), (1777-1804), son of James Watt the younger, mainly concerning a pump lamp (with thumb nail sketches), family matters and political development in France and America

Edinburgh University

Edinburgh University

Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence of James Watt and Joseph Black

Glasgow University

Glasgow University

University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Website

Collections details: 

• Correspondence of James Watt

• Items related to James Watt and his employment with the University

• Objects relating to James Watt

Hereford Archives and Records Centre

Hereford Archives and Records Centre

Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6LA

Website

Collection details: 

• Account of Aston Hall by James Watt

Hergest Trust Archives

Hergest Trust Archives

Hergest Croft, Kington, HR5 3EG

Website 

Collection details:

• Letters of James Watt Jnr and his parents to Mr and Mrs James Crummer

Heriot-Watt University Museum and Archive

Heriot-Watt University Museum and Archive

Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH14 4AS

Website

Collection details:

• Portraits in Art Collection

• Objects associated with James Watt including James Watt Roller Copying Press complete with an original letter written by Watt and printed on the press

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

The Hunterian University of Glasgow, Gilbert Scott Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Website

Collections details: 

• Scientific and Medical Instruments Collection: Replicas of instruments used

• Archaeology, Ethnography and History Collection: Memorial rings, images and model of Newcomen engine

• Numismatic Collection: Coins and medals commemorating Watt

Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History, The

Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History, The

Adam Matthew Publications

Website

Collection details: 

Microfilm collection of documents relating to the Industrial Revolution

Series one is based on the Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from Birmingham Central Library.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive

Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk, London, SW1H 9JJ

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence from Boulton and Watt

• Portraits and likenesses

• Photographical material

Leeds University Special Collections

Leeds University Special Collections

Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT

Website

Collection details:

• Letter between James Watt and William Forman

McLean Museum and Art Gallery

McLean Museum and Art Gallery

15 Kelly Street, Greenock, PA16 8JX

Main website

Online catalogue

Collection details:

• Decorative Arts Collection

• Fine Arts Collection

• Social History Collection

• Photographic Collection

• Numismatic Collection

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ

Website

Collection details: 

• Objects relating to James Watt, including a copying press and related items

• Prints and likenesses

• Medals

National Museum of Scotland

National Museum of Scotland

Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF

Website

Collection details:

• Objects associated with James Watt including a Boulton and Watt engine and barometer

• Objects in
- Industry and Commerce
- History of Science

National Archives

National Archives

Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU

Website

Collection details:

• Information re various law suits involving James Watt

National Library of Wales

National Library of Wales

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3BU

Website

Collection details: 

• Letters of James Watt Jnr to William and Robert Mylne

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 5BD

Website

Collection details:

• Printed material on James Watt

• Letters of Joseph Banks to James Watt

Parliamentary Archives

Parliamentary Archives

Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA

Website

Collection details:

• Act relating to James Watt’s steam engine

Powerhouse Museum

Powerhouse Museum

500 Harris St, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia

Website

Collection details:

• Objects, drawings and medals associated with James Watt

Royal Institution of Great Britain

Royal Institution of Great Britain

21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence between Watt and Sir Humphrey Davy

Royal Society Library Collection

Royal Society Library Collection

6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG

Website

Collection details:

• Various correspondence of James Watt

Sandwell Archives

Sandwell Archives

Smethwick Library, High Street, Smethwick, B66 1AA

Website 

Collection details:

• Images of Boulton and Watt engines at various industrial sites in the Black Country

• Photographs related to Watt locations

• Portraits of Lunar Society members

• Correspondence and drawings from Boulton & Watt, then James Watt & Co

Science Museum London

Science Museum London

Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD

Website

Collection details:

• Publications

• Patent information

• Conference proceedings

• Correspondence

• Recreation of Heathfield House workshop: The attic workshop of James Watt, preserved as it was when he died in 1819. The complete contents of Watt’s Heathfield workshop are displayed with some original structural elements such as windows, doors and fireplace and furniture. There are over 8,400 objects left as they were in Watt’s lifetime, which represent a complete physical 3D record of Watt's entire career.

• Objects made by or associated with Watt

• Watt’s sculpture collection: Over 400 items reflecting people to whom Watt was connected and in whom he was interested.

• Watt Collection: The Watt Collection in the Science Museum Library consists of 119 titles owned by James Watt (1736-1819), the famous engineer, and is associated with the garret workshop of his home in Heathfield, Birmingham.  

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6QW

Website

Collection details: 

• Items relating to land in Birmingham leased to Boulton and Watt

Stockholm Archives

Stockholm Archives

PO Box 12541 102 29 Stockholm

Website

Collection details:

• The technical notebook of Jons Matthias Ljunberg which contains a record of his information-gathering activities in Britain in the 1770s and 1780s. The Soho manufactory feature prominently and the notebook contains marginal and full page technical drawings of the products and machines of Soho and elsewhere, including the Albion Mills

Thinktank

Thinktank

Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham B4 7XG

Website

Collection details:

• Objects related to James Watt

University College London Special Collections

University College London Special Collections

University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence between James Watt and Samuel Galton

Watt Library

Watt Library

9 Union Street, Greenock, PA16 8JH

Website

Collection details:

• Correspondence of James Watt

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British Museum
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Deutsches Museum
East Sussex Record Office
Edinburgh University
Glasgow University
Hereford Archives and Records Centre
Hergest Trust Archives
Heriot-Watt University Museum and Archive
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History, The
Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive
Leeds University Special Collections
McLean Museum and Art Gallery
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
National Museum of Scotland
National Archives
National Library of Wales
Natural History Museum
Parliamentary Archives
Powerhouse Museum
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Royal Society Library Collection
Sandwell Archives
Science Museum London
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Stockholm Archives
Thinktank
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Header image: Boulton & Watt engine, 1804. Reproduced with the permission of the Library of Birmingham