The new fifty pound note

On the new fifty, Boulton and Watt, provided with what might as well be speech bubbles, seem to be talking to each other about their engine – though the gaze of both is fixed firmly on you, the bearer.

‘I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have,’ Boulton says. ‘POWER.’

‘I can think of nothing else,’ Watt replies, ‘but this machine.’