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THE arrangements for the James Watt centenary commemoration are now practically complete, the general scheme being set forth in a pamphlet issued by the Centenary Committee. The form which the memorial is to take is threefold:—(i) To endow a professorship of engineering, to be known as the James Watt chair, at the University of Birmingham, for the promotion of research in the fundamental principles underlying the production of power, and the study of the conservation of the natural sources of energy; (2) to erect a James Watt memorial building to serve as a museum for collecting together examples of the work of James Watt and his contemporaries, Boulton and Murdock, as a meeting place and library for scientific and technical societies, and as a centre from which engineers could co-operate in spreading scientific knowledge; and (3) to publish a memorial volume.
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The James Watt Centenary Commemoration at Birmingham . Nature 103, 507 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103507a0
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