ABSTRACT
Sir Joseph Whitworth was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. George Wallis was an artist, and art educator who particularly promoted education in industrial art. He was associated with design schools, acting as headmaster of the Birmingham School of Design and later as keeper of the art collections at the South Kensington Museum. Some fifteen years after the report was published, George Wallis commented most disappointedly that ‘Much of the information embodied in these reports has not been utilized in this country to this hour, for it happened that they came before the public at the period when the Crimean War was about to commence’. Mr. Whitworth undertook to examine a report on machinery, and Mr. George Wallis on manufactures, decorative art, and kindred subjects; and it will be seen in the pages with what great ability these gentlemen have discharged the duties with which they were intrusted.
