James Watt birthplace (Greenock - 1736)
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The building stands on the place he was born.
Description
James Watt
,
FRS,
FRSE (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a
Scottish inventor and
mechanical engineer whose improvements to the
Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the
Industrial Revolution in both his native
Great Britain and the rest of the world.
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