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Watt in the World - The life and legacy of James Watt 1736-1819

‘Watt in the World - The life and legacy of James Watt 1736-1819’ forms the centrepiece of the Lunar Society’s James Watt Bicentenary programme and will run from Friday 12 July to Saturday 2 November 2019. Featuring more than 100 internationally important archival and museum objects, the exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, furniture, silver, scientific instruments, personal items, notebooks, letters and Watt-related memorabilia. Highlights include James Watt’s notebooks that detail his experiments, personal correspondence with friends and family, silverware by Matthew Boulton, a letter copy press designed by Watt; and Sir Thomas Lawrence’s 1812 portrait of the great engineer. The exhibition preview will be accompanied by the Birmingham launch of a major new book - ‘The Power to Change the World: James Watt - a life in 50 objects’ - edited by the University of Birmingham’s Dr Malcolm Dick OBE, a guest curator at the Library of Birmingham, and Dr Kate Croft and published by History West Midlands. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cwmh