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Energy Hall: James Watt and Our World

Trace the remarkable story of steam and how it shaped the world we live in today. Discover an unparalleled collection of engines and models on display in the Energy Hall: James Watt and Our World.

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Mineral water bottle

Glass Technology

1801-1900

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Cut glass perfume bottle with ball-top stopper

Pharmacy-ware

1860-1900

Equal size sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Reducing sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

“Water of Ayr Stone”, one packet

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Oil bottle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Egyptian head

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

Motive Power

1797-1804

Distinguished Men of Science

William Walker

1862

Flute foot-joint end by James Watt

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

One large Jar, two lids, “Fresh plaster A Apl. Ist. 1818, jar broken"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1818

Jar, “Shellac”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

One iron casting

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Spirit level

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Pear shaped glass, curved tube from top, straight tube from bottom

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Memo: “These are fired by 80 degrees of Wedgwood’s thermometer."

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Portrait bust of James Watt

Hand and Machine Tools

2010

Empty wooden box, labelled "bought"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Three small steel set-squares, with brass stocks

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1756-1773

1¼” steel firmer chisel in octagonal wood handle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Box labelled 'bile', containing a red powdery lump

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Barometer printing plate, inscribed " I.Watt Glasgow"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1756-1757

Piece of deal, central slot, widened one end

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Bundle of red cloth wrapped in paper labelled

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Ivory scale

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Plaster cast of Venus

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

A piece of thin sheet-iron

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

One bent drill

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Piece of red chalk

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1808

Zinc vessel, closed one end, three tube projections, wire with winch handle through centre

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

White ceramic jar with leather lid, labelled "Smyrna Lizari"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Packet tied with string, labelled 'indigo"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

Surveying

1755-1765

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

Art

1904

Jar: “Calcined Wad”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Countersink made from old stamp

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Wood pattern for Anvil bolster

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Impression in sealing wax, “J.W.” with an eye and “Observare”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Tool shaped with half circle end

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Clay pipe stamped “Henry Lyon”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Dutch oven

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Brass piece, two scrolls cut out

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Jar, “Dark red powder", paper cover fastened

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819