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Country: [[United Kingdom]]<br> | Country: [[United Kingdom]]<br> | ||
Campus/location : | Campus/location : Bath | ||
[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
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The arms were officially granted on November 15, 1966. | The arms were officially granted on November 15, 1966. | ||
Sul was a Celtic God identified by the Romans with their own Minerva, and Bath was known as Aquae Sulis. The choice of Sul depicted by a conventional rendering of his head as found carved at Bath is fitting indeed, and it can be distinguished from a sun in splendour by the fact that the face is moustached, and eared, and the hair thereof is entwined with and blends with wavy rays of heat that surround the whole. | |||
A Watt Governor is a device designed in 1788 by James Watt who adapted a older type of governor to control his steam engine where it regulates the admission of steam into the cylinder. It is used here as a symbol for a technical university. | |||
I have no information on the other elements. | |||
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