James Watt
James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736
(19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a
Scottish inventor,
mechanical engineer, and
chemist who improved on
Thomas Newcomen's 1712
Newcomen steam engine with his
Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the
Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.