James Watt's Garret Workshop
1790-1819
14 Cardboard washers
4 Packing needles
4 Small pieces of bone
3 Casts tied together
3 Pieces of paper
1 Broach, broken Do
1 Piece of square steel
6 Small pieces of wood
2 Gravers, in handles
1 Soldering bolt, broken, piece of copper attached by wire.
2 Tool handles
7 Tool handles
13 Pieces of sand paper
1 Graver
1 Small tool handle
1 Drill in brown paper
29 Screws, various sizes
1 Packet, “Quartz melted by lightning at Packington.”
1 Box “White Bronze”
An iron rake for stove.
1 mineral sample, labelled 'Menro Moor'
1 “Fossil, Charcoal off Pit coal”
1 Native Bismuth
1 Packet “Cover of Bovey coal”
1609
1 Linguae Latinae Exercitatio Joan Lod. Vive Autore. Typis A.W. MDCIX. Signed in ink, “James Watt” leather 6” x 3¼”
1736 - 1819
Watt, James
Motive Power
1782-1784
Model of sun and planet gearing, made by James Watt ,1782-1784, demonstrating the action designed to produce a rotative motion. Preserved by James Watt & Co.
1 Box “Dollar Ore”
38 Specimens unnamed
1763-1764
Part of snifting valve consisting of brass elbow with flange and wooden fixtures, intended for use on a large steam engine. Taken from the contents of the private workshop of James Watt from his house of Heathfield, Birmingham, where he lived from 1790 to his death in 1819 (see note)
1 Piece of red chalk
Regulator valve consisting of brass tube and sliding cap with wooden cylinder and mounting board, intended for use on a steam engine. Taken from the contents of the private workshop of James Watt from his house of Heathfield, Birmingham, where he lived from 1790 to his death in 1819.
Plaster mould, No. 1 marked on back "Best" 4 1/8" dia, head and shoulders of James Watt
1758-1773
Three circular saw blades, 2⅛”, 2⅞”, 3” diameter, two with key-way slots to the spindle slots, and one with a more pronounced saw teeth set, unsigned, United Kingdom, 1758-1773
Plain calliper from the workshop of James Watt.
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
working model, sectioned, scale 1:12, John Smeaton's atmospheric engine at Long Benton Colliery, 1772
1 Ball in iron frame with mahogany handle
1 ball in iron frame with short round handle (?paper rollers)
One of eight long pieces of ebony, partly pierced - violin fingerboards made by James Watt, Glasgow, Scotland, to the design of Charles Clagget, 1758-1769.
3 Knurling tools
1 Long piece of tube, zig zag on end
2 Steel centre pieces. Above box addressed “J. Watt Esq.” etc.
1768-1780
Packet containing three pieces of white Wedgwood ware, wrapped in paper, and 1 Memo. “These are fired by 55 degrees of Wedgwood’s thermo.”
1 Box 7” x 7” x 3” labelled: “Iron dividg. Plates, containing 2 Face plates, 2 Steel centre pieces. Above box addressed “J. Watt Esq.” etc.
