Last week was so chock full o' news, what with the Trump indictment and the deaths of religious right-winger Pat Robertson and the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, that I'm concerned that another ...

So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often considered one of the cornerstones of the Industrial Revolution. This is ...

The Bank of England wants a new face for the £50 note. Even as our relationship with money changes, it still matters.

WHEN your Secretary did me the honour to communicate the wish of the Committee that I should deliver this lecture, he was good enough to send me a list of the names of my predecessors in the ...

James Watt invented this document copier to relieve him of the tedium of making copies of his plans and drawings. The press copies a written document by pressure onto thin, translucent ...

COUNCIL approval is being sought for major upgrade works at James Watt Dock Marina. Plans to build a new marina building with ...

But 50 years on there is no memorial to those who died in the James Watt Street blaze. The fire started at about 10:30 on 18 November 1968 in a building which housed an upholstery business and a ...

THE Swiss luxury yacht Amalthea of Sark has sailed in to James Watt Dock. She was spotted by our photographer George Munro ...

In 2007, James Watt and Martin Dickie set up their first brewery in a shed on a remote industrial estate in Fraserburgh in Scotland. It was just the two of them and a dog, so they named the company ...

A very large white marble statue was erected in St Paul's chapel in Westminster Abbey in memory of James Watt (died 1819), the great civil engineer, by the sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. This cost ...