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James Watt workshop (Glasgow - 1763)
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Description
James Watt
James Watt
FRS
FRSE
(
/
w
ɒ
t
/
; 30 January 1736
(19 January 1736
OS
)
– 25 August 1819)
[1]
was a
Scottish
inventor
, mechanical engineer, and
chemist
who improved on
Thomas Newcomen
's 1712
Newcomen steam engine
with his
Watt steam engine
in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the
Industrial Revolution
in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Watt
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