Since 1769, it has become the chiei ruler over ... a rendezvous of the highest type of the steam engine. As James Watt advanced in years, wealth and honors flowed in upon him.

In 1769 Watt sought and obtained a patent for a "new method for lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines". In 1776, he built an engine with a cylinder of 127 cm diameter to pump ...

The King, His Ministers, and many of the Nobles and Commoners of the Realm raised this monument to JAMES WATT who, directing the force of an original Genius, early exercised in philosophic research, ...