Channel: Machine Thinking

Category: Science & Technology

Tags: science museumjames wattlathemachiningmachinescience educationscience museum londonwattmicrometermill

Description: Please support me on Patreon patreon.com/machinethinking I had a chance to closely examine the micrometer reputedly made by James Watt circa 1776. With Ben Russell, the Mechanical Engineering Curator at the Science Museum, London, we partially disassembled the micrometer in order to try and answer the question Who made this and when?