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Working from Aldridge Road round to Queslet Road, they depict eight members of the Society:

• Josiah Wedgwood: Portrait & three women from a Jasper ware design
• Erasmus Darwin Portrait & design for Horizontal Windmill
• Samuel Galton: Colour Wheel
• William Murdock: Steam road locomotive
• Matthew Boulton: Medal with his portrait
• James WattThis article is about the Scottish engineer and inventor. For Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, see James G. James Watt ( January 19, 1736 August 19, 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were a ke: Portrait & steam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. Steam engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and were essential to the Industrial Revolution
• Joseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley ( March 13, 1733 February 6, 1804) was an English chemist, dissenting clergyman, and educator. He was born in Birstall parish, six miles from Leeds, Yorkshire. He learned a variety of languages, both classical and modern, in his youth, in: LaboratoryBiochemistry laboratory at the University of Cologne. A laboratory (often abbreviated lab is a place where scientific research and experiments are conducted. The equipment in a laboratory will depend on what the lab is used for. Chemistry and biochemistry equipment
• James KeirJames Keir ( 1735- 1820), chemist, geologist, industrialist and inventor, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland. He was a member of the Lunar Society. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University where he met Erasmus Darwin. He joined the army and served as: CrystalThis article is about the form of solid matter. For other uses of this word, see Crystal (disambiguation . Insulin Crystals A crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extends
• William WitheringWilliam Withering ( March 17, 1741 October 6, 1799) was a British physician and the discoverer of digitalis. Trained as a doctor at Edinburgh University, he worked at Birmingham General Hospital from 1779. The story is that one of his patients with dropsy: Foxglove (with words from his book An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses)

The stones also each have a phase of the moon carved on them, with Watt's being the full moon.

The designs are by Steve Field and were executed by two stone masons, Malcolm Sier and Michael Scheurmann.