Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Watt NPG D17511

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Bone, after Sir William Beechey

A mechanical engineer who trained as a mathematical instrument-maker, James Watt invented the condensing steam-engine in 1765. He took Matthew Boulton as his partner in 1775, and developed an improved version of this engine which revolutionised industry and immortalised Watt's name, inaccurately but effectively, as the 'inventor of the steam-engine'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.