JAMES WATT’S BIRTH
Bicentenary of Steam Engine’s Inventor
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 20.
The bi-centenary of the birth of James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, is being commemorated. A service was held yesterday in Westminster Abbey and was attended by engineering organisations. In his native town of Greenock a memorial plaque was unveiled by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir Godfrey Collins. Wreaths were deposited on the memorial at Birmingham. A bicentenary exhibition is being held at the Science Museum, South Kensington. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has established a James Watt Medal to be awarded biennially for the most outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering during the previous two years. Eligibility will not be confined to British engineers.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 5
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